A city guide to divestment
Divesting from producers of controversial weapons: a guide for local authorities
More and more people are moving to cities. The growing trend towards urbanization means that the traditional role of Mayors and City Councils is expanding. To protect their citizens, municipal leaders must embrace a wide range of approaches towards securing their cities. This new reality is reflected in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
ICAN and PAX’s latest Don’t Bank on the Bomb Report:“Perilous Profiteering: The companies building nuclear arsenals and their financial backers” exposes the financial institutions making $685 billion available to the nuclear weapon producing companies like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Airbus, Northrop Grumman and Leonardo, and shows how divestment is seriously shaking up the industry.
The EU Council formalised its position on the European digital identity at the Telecom Council meeting on Tuesday (6 December).
The European digital identity is intended to create a public version of digital wallets in each member state that can be used to identify, authenticate or verify certain aspects such as age in any other EU country.
These wallets will take the form of apps for smartphones. In the digital sphere, the EU’s ambition is to compete with the identification systems currently offered by Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook.
“We are looking at a massive advancement in how people use their identity and credentials in everyday contact with both public and private entities, and in how they use digital services,” said Ivan Bartos, Czech Deputy Prime minister for digitalisation.
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