Killed for speaking up: UN sounds alarm over attacks on environmental defenders
His appeal came in remarks to the first-ever European Forum on Environmental Human Rights Defenders held in Strasbourg, France, where he warned that the continent is warming twice as fast as the global average, with increasing floods, shrinking glaciers and heatwaves. “Extreme weather kills thousands of Europeans every summer,” he said. “Across the continent, 95 per cent of urban residents breathe unsafe […]
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