The current Kazakh president has not been both indecisive and self-interested shaping the nation's alliances. At the beginning of this year, Tokayev shut down the whole country due to protests, and gave the equivalent to the national guard shoot to kill orders. He invited Russian forces to intervene. Then, bizarrely, when the draft in Russia began, Kazakhstan accepted fleeing Russians without giving them problems, and had a falling out with the Kremlin. Now, Tokayev reaffirmed positive relations with Russia. This is probably a matter of money moving hands.

Despite all this text in this article, it seems like this organization and the ILO have no idea what to do to reduce the emissions from maritime shipping. The ILO guidelines are focused on providing current sailors the training to operate vessels that use alternative fuels, to ensure they don't lose their jobs. Question: where are these vessels? Who is making eco-friendly cargo ships? 15 ships make more N2O than all the cars in the world. Is making sure their sailors are more educated something that needs to happen before we build the vessels to replace them?

Sea level rise is not noted as a major threat as often as CO2 or natural disasters, but that's here in the US. Island nations like Kiribati and the Maldives see this as a different level of problem, as they would be almost entirely submerged if sea levels rise much more than this. Putting blame on India is interesting: is it entirely fair to demand additional efforts from a country which produces the level of emissions that it does due to sheer population mass rather than consumer habits?

The program China adopts coming out of COP27 is probably the most important possible change to global emissions. It's good to see that the Chinese delegation is vocal about the need to adopt sustainable practices, but it's to be seen if a mass export economy like China can afford them.

South Africa is a water scarce country. Its water resource are comparatively small for a nation with its population, and this deficit has caused water scarcity many times in the past. However, this time the water shortage is not due to low supply, but rather poor management. South Africa has woefully insufficient infrastructure spending, and facilities have not been majorly improved since the seventies. Current estimates put the share of municipal non-revenue water as high as 41%, i.e. 41% of the water that leaves reservoirs and treatment facilities is lost to leakage before it reaches consumers.

It's truly a waking nightmare in the RF right now; it has not been this bad since WWII. There's no way to encapsulate all the information in a comment like this, or even in an article like the one attached - that's just an overview. Russia is in a de facto total mobilization. There are no rules, every man 18-"50"(70) is eligible so long as the recruiters have quotas to fill. People are being detained and drafted at their jobs, homes, on public transportation and at the border. The number Vladimir Vladimirovich touted was 300,000 recruits; it's looking more like several million, from a nation of officially 140, believed to be 120 million people. Prisoners have been all offered freedom if they fight - no need to worry about the long term consequences after they come back. Needless to say society is in a state of collapse, but that does not at all imply the state is. The state is doing a-ok, barely bruised by the riots. State operatives will continue to perform their duties, because the second they slip up their replacements will send them to the front with the rest. What is Putin's goal? Who knows! The most sensible answer is that he's actually just having fun in his own degenerate way. I was born during the most democratic and economically promising period in recent Russian history. Putin and his court have brought it all the way here.

Immigration has been a very important topic for Swedes in these past five years, and many Swedes have grown very resistant towards letting in any more refugees from the Middle East. The Nordics are touted as these examples of equality under capitalism, and yet these results reveal a perhaps uncomfortable truth: Swedes believe the homogeneity of their country, not their economic system, is the origin of their success; they will vote for a neonazi-adjacent faction over the very party that created their welfare system if they believe the ethnic unity of Sweden is threatened.

It's truly the end of an era. In theory, they will hold a funeral, Charles will take the crown, and things will continue as normal. However, British interest in the monarchy has only waned in recent years, the royals are seen by many as out-of-touch parasites eating up public money - and they aren't not that. The people that still support the crown are mostly the older generations; according to recent surveys, only 31% of Brits under 25 believe there should be a monarch. There exists a possibility that the monarchy will end this decade.

There is no water and constant barrage for a city of a quarter-million residents. Mykolaiv had a population of almost half a million last year, of which tens of thousands have fled west.