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“This should give governments the confidence to forge a new robust climate agreement to cut emissions at the 2015 climate change conference in Paris,” said Steiner.

These advances have a drastic impact on the climate, the report notes. “Were it not for renewables, world energy-related CO2 emissions would have been an estimated 1.2 gigatonnes higher in 2013,” it states. “This would have increased by about 12 per cent the gap between where emissions are heading and where they need to be in 2020 if the world is to have a realistic prospect of staying under a two degree Centigrade temperature rise.”

“A long-term shift in investment over the next few decades towards a cleaner energy portfolio is needed to avoid dangerous climate change,” said Steiner.

Michael Liebreich, Chairman of the Advisory Board for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, added: “Lower costs, a return to profitability on the part of some leading manufacturers, the phenomenon of unsubsidized market uptake in a number of countries, and a warmer attitude to renewables among public market investors, were hopeful signs after several years of painful shake-out in the renewable energy sector.”

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, according to reports, has approved a plan to transfer Chelsea Manning, the celebrated whistleblower and former Army intelligence officer who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks, from a military prison where she is now serving sentence to a civilian prison.

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The idea of transfer, which has been approved but not finalized, would allow Manning to receive the hormone therapy she has requested in order to help complete her desire to live as a woman. As a military facility, Ft. Leavenworth Prison, where Manning is currently incarcerated does not provide such treatment, but federal prisons do.

According to the Associated Press:

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Despite these numbers, the Canadian government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper has repeatedly refused to hold a full public inquiry into the deaths.

In March, First Nations protesters held a series of train line blockades calling for justice for the missing women.

In addition to the UN official, the Assembly of First Nations, the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association, the Council of Canadians and numerous others groups have also voiced support for a national inquiry.

The UN report was one of a series released by Anaya on the opening of the Thirteenth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, held in New York from May 12-23. On May 20, Anaya will discuss his findings at the forum.

Anaya describes the relationship between Canadian First Nations groups and the federal government as “strained,” and recommends, among other things, more self-governance for Indigenous people in Canada. With so many people living in what he calls “distressing socio-economic conditions,” Anaya writes, “Canada faces a continuing crisis when it comes to the situation of indigenous peoples of the country.”

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Acknowledging the importance of the revelations made possible by Snowden as well as the work of online civil liberties groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Post describes how the landscape surrounding online privacy has changed dramatically in recent years, but especially since last summer when the first large-scale reporting on NSA spying began.

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Experts interviewed by the Post say the changes are being driven by an attempt to fulfill demands by customers that their privacy be protected.

“Post-Snowden, there is a greater desire to compete on privacy,” said Marc Zwillinger, founder of ZwillGen, a Washington-based law firm that has major tech companies as clients. “Companies have had notice policies and cared about these issues for years. It’s only now that it’s being discussed at the CEO level.”

EFF is now preparing the release of its annual “Who Has Your Back?” scorecard, which tracks the privacy policies and performance of the industry’s biggest players. “Last year,” according to CNET, “neither Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, nor Yahoo got a gold star in the ‘Tells users about government data requests’ column of the report card, though Twitter and others did.”

If the Post’s reporting is accurate, it appears that the scorecards this year—despite outstanding concerns about the role these same companies are playing in mass surveillance and the use of “big data” for their own purposes—might show improvement.

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Originally facing a charge of piracy, they were later targeted with less severe ‘hooliganism’ accusations.

The 30, including four Russians, were detained for two months before being bailed and then receiving amnesty.

The Arctic Sunrise was towed to the northern Russian port of Murmansk.

“Our main priority now is to get the ship checked by independent surveyors to assess the level of damage since it was seized by Russian agents on September 19th. We will also be asking the Russian authorities to continue guarding the vessel until our crew arrives to take custody of it”, said Daniel Simons, Greenpeace International Legal Counsel.

In the eight months since the action took place Greenpeace has continued to campaign against Arctic oil drilling across the world, most recently in Norway last week where activists occupied a Statoil contracted oil rig in the Barents sea for over 48 hours. Meanwhile Dutch activists blocked a second Gazprom rig, the GSP Saturn, as it left the Dutch port of IJmuiden to drill in the Russian Arctic.

Kumi Naidoo, who himself protested at the Prirazlomnaya rig in 2012 continued:

“We will continue to oppose any oil company that attempts to drill in the Arctic ocean. As the world warms and the ice melts this is fast becoming an era defining battle, and we are determined to win it.”

But said Naidoo: “Today the final member of the group is free to come home.”

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From June until September, the Detroit Water and Sewage Department (DWSD) will be cutting off citizens’ water supply at a rate of 3,000 per week. According to the department, 4,500 households have already been turned off.

Though many are framing the issue as an inability by city residents to pay their bills, advocates note that the residents are victims of “regressive” pricing scheme that, according to a 2013 report on local government spending on public water (PDF), “places a tremendous financial burden on the lower median income households in a community.”

Further, in the past ten years Detroit residents have seen water rates rise by 119 percent with the city council just last month approving an 8.7 percent rate increase. Many believe the rate hikes and imminent shut-offs are an attempt by Detroit Emergency Manager Kevin Orr to make the DWSD more appealing to potential investors in a bid to privatize the city’s utilities.

“With all eyes on Detroit, it’s important to realize what we’re seeing,” writes Anna Lappe, co-founder of the Small Planet Institute, in an op-ed published Monday. “A city water department cutting off residents appears—and is—extreme, but it’s a taste of what private water companies do.”

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