31/10/2018
31 October 2018 — When it comes to helping green our world, organic mushrooms from the local market may be just the tip of the iceberg. A new United Nations-backed report reveals that fungi could help ween the world off its plastic addiction, by degrading polyurethane in just a matter of weeks.
UN Photo/Martine Perret | Plastic bottles and garbage waste from a village in Timor-Leste wash on the shores of a river and then spill into the sea.
According to the first-ever State of the World’s Fungi report, Scientists at London’s Kew Botanical Gardens reported that these organisms have the potential to break down waste plastic – an important advance in a world where momentum is building to reverse the toxic tide of plastic that is killing marine life and polluting the ocean.
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31/10/2018
30 October 2018 (Wall Street International)* —
As the world population grows the need for Public Goods becomes greater since these are the base for humanity’s productive activity. Essential goods are found in permanent interaction with nature. All of them, water, energy, natural resources, food, education, health, social housing, and retirement funds or forced savings, are needed by the labor force upon retirement.
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These goods are an integral part of the economic wellbeing and are part of the essential objectives which help build peace and social sustainability which are intrinsic to Humanity’s development.
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31/10/2018
Geneva, October 30, 2018 (UN Environment)* — Millions of lives could be saved and one billion people living in Asia could be breathing clean air by 2030 if 25 simple and cost-effective measures are implemented, according to a new UN report. Currently, about 4 billion people – 92 per cent of Asia and the Pacific’s population – are exposed to levels of air pollution that pose a significant risk to their health.
The report, Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based Solutions, is the first comprehensive scientific assessment of the air pollution outlook in Asia and the Pacific.
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31/10/2018
29 October 2018 – Is China a new imperial power threatening some of the developing economies in Asia and Africa? This is a perception that is being promoted through the media by certain China watchers in universities and think tanks mainly in the West, various politicians and by a segment of the global NGO community.
Chandra Muzaffaris
The peddlers of this perception argue that by giving out loans for development to poor countries China is snaring them in a debt trap. It is a trap that ensures that they are perpetually under China’s control.
Is there such a debt trap? To find out, we shall look at three Asian countries before we turn to Africa.
Pakistan has taken loans from China for projects under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
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31/10/2018
Tens of thousands of children who have been forcibly returned from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) need help urgently, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF said on Tuesday [30 October 2018].
© UNHCR/Ibrahima Diane | Nadine and her children, Congelese nationals expelled from Angola, rest on their luggage in Kamako, near the border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nadine needs money to pay for onward transport but, like thousands of families, she is stuck in Kamako. 11 October 2018.
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31/10/2018
The United Nations human rights chief pressed on Tuesday [30 October 2018] for an impartial, investigation into the “shockingly brazen” murder of Saudi Arabian journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
UN Photo/Laura Jarriel | Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at UN Headquarters in New York.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and OHCHR head Michelle Bachelet stressed that a full examination of, and accountability for, human rights violations committed against Mr. Khashoggi be conducted.
The journalist disappeared from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018.
According to news reports, Saudi officials now admit that he was killed inside the embassy by a team of agents sent from Riyadh, although his body has yet to be recovered.
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31/10/2018
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Over half the world’s population live in cities (55 per cent) and the world is urbanizing fast – by 2050 over two thirds (68 per cent) of the world’s population is projected to be urban – with 1.4 million people arriving in cities each week.
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31/10/2018
The migration of some 1.4 million people every week to cities around the world “can strain local capacities, contributing to increased risk from natural and human made disasters’” according to the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
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UN-Habitat/Julius Mwelu | Cities in developing countries like Nairobi in Kenya continue to grow rapidly.
In his message for World Cities Day, celebrated annually on 31 October, Guterres stressed that “hazards do not need to become disasters.”
“The answer is to build resilience – to storms, floods, earthquakes, fires, pandemics and economic crises,” he said.
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29/10/2018
Air pollution is “stunting children’s brains” and affecting their health in more ways than was previously suspected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday 29 October 2018.
© UNICEF/Mungunkhishig Batbaatar | At dawn, parents and children cross the road on their way to school in the Songinokhairkhan district, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where the air pollution level is the highest in the city.
In a call for concrete policy pledges from governments across the world to tackle the problem, the UN health agency reports that more than nine in 10 youngsters breathe air that is so polluted, “it puts their health and development at serious risk”.
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29/10/2018
Bali, 29 October 2018 (UN Environment)*– A Global Commitment to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at the source has been signed by 250 organisations including many of the world’s largest packaging producers, brands, retailers and recyclers, as well as governments and NGOs.
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The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment is led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with UN Environment, and will be officially unveiled at the Our Ocean Conference in Bali today [29 October 2018].
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