05/06/2015
‘From Wasted Economy to Wasted Planet: Why Changing Our Consumption Patterns is a Choice We Must Make!’
UNEP
Editorial by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme*
As we sit down to lunch or dinner on this World Environment Day, it is important to consider this: one-third of all food produced globally each year – 300 million tonnes – is wasted. This waste costs the global economy a staggering one trillion dollars a year.
Industrialized regions account for almost half of the total. The food we discard is still fit for human consumption and could feed more than 800 million people in the world today.
This is just the tip of the waste iceberg, and serves as a proxy for the ‘ecological footprint’ of our entire global economy. Our global food system is responsible for 80 per cent of deforestation and is the largest single cause of species and biodiversity loss.
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05/06/2015
5 June 2015, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)* – Today, on World Environment Day, we launch the movie One Water – For Sustainable Development.“Water is a precondition for human existence”, says UN Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson. Water is health, water is energy, water is food, water is climate, and water is equality.
This year, we also celebrate the 25th Jubilee of Stockholm Water Prize. Hear from previous recipients of the Prize, Rita Colwell, Sunita Narain and Tony Allan about water’s centrality to sustainable development.
Watch, share and help us spread the message through hashtag #WaterIs!
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05/06/2015
The UN estimates that more than 3.8 million people, representing a third of South Sudan’s population of 11 million, do not have sufficient food.
© UNHCR/R.Riek | South Sudanese refugees wait to be registered at a crossing into Ethiopia earlier this year.
The UN refugee agency on 2 June 2015 reported that heavy fighting over the last two months in South Sudan’s Unity and Upper Nile states has displaced more than 100,000 people and blocked humanitarian aid deliveries for some 650,000 people.
“Refugees cite the upsurge in fighting, but also growing food insecurity as the main reasons for fleeing their homes. It’s estimated that more than 3.8 million people, representing a third of South Sudan’s population of 11 million, do not have sufficient food,” UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told journalists in Geneva.
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05/06/2015
Critical aid operations supporting millions of people affected by the conflict in Iraq are at risk of shutting down unless funds are made available immediately, senior United Nations on 4 June 2015 warned as they joined an international appeal for nearly $500 million to cover the immediate needs of 5.6 million Iraqis for the next six months.
Baharka IDP camp for displaced Iraqis on the outskirts of Erbil, northern Iraq. Photo: © UNICEF/Philip Hazou
“Humanitarian partners have been doing everything they can to help. But more than 50 per cent of the operation will be shut down or cut back if money is not received immediately,” Lise Grande, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the war-torn country said at an appeal launch at the European Parliament in Brussels.*
The implications of this, Grande said, would be “catastrophic” in what is already one of the most complex and volatile crisis anywhere in the world. Humanitarian needs in Iraq are huge and growing. More than 8 million people require immediate life-saving support, a number that could reach 10 million by the end of 2015.
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