Sustainability
Pandemic ‘rolled back’ sustainable development funding for weak economies: UNCTAD |
According to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2021, total foreign direct investment also dropped by more than a third globally, to $1...
COVID-19: First mRNA vaccine tech transfer hub a ‘great step forward’ |
The facility will allow manufacturers from developing countries to receive training in how to produce vaccines, and the relevant licenses...
FROM THE FIELD: Restoring Dutch ‘green deserts’ |
Farmer Monique van der Laan from farm De Beekhoeve in Kamerik, the Netherlands uses her shovel in the peat meadows,...
Sustainability solution or climate calamity? The dangers and promise of cryptocurrency technology |
A ‘pointless way of using energy’? The amount of energy needed to power the Bitcoin network is staggering: Tim Berners-Lee,...
COVID-19: Vaccines donated next year, ‘too late for those who are dying today’ |
That was one of the main messages relayed to reporters on Friday by World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom...
One in every 100 dies by their own hand, each suicide ‘a tragedy’ – WHO |
Based on its estimates that more than 700,000 people, or one-in-100, died by suicide in 2019, the World Health Organization...
UN chief: Desertification and drought destabilizing well-being of 3.2 billion people |
“Humanity is waging a relentless, self-destructive war on nature. Biodiversity is declining, greenhouse gas concentrations are rising, and our pollution can...
Domestic workers among hardest hit by COVID crisis, says UN labour agency |
Ten years on from the landmark adoption of the International Labour Organization Convention that confirmed their rights, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder insisted...
‘Digital dumpsites’ study highlights growing threat to children: UN health agency |
In a statement coinciding with the launch, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the health threat was growing, in line with...
Five polio vaccination workers shot dead in Afghanistan; UN condemns ‘brutal’ killings |
The UN humanitarian coordination office OCHA, said the deaths and injuries occurred during five separate attacks on health workers –...
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