22/04/2019
Traditional knowledge is at the core of indigenous identity, culture and heritage around the world, the chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues said at the annual event’s opening day on Monday [22 April 2019], stressing that it “must be protected”.
UN News/Predrag Vasić | Sjisäwishék ‘Keeping the fire strong’, indigenous girls of the Onondaga Nation, Haudenoaunee Confederacy, perform at the eighteenth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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Anne Nuorgam, who is a member of Finland’s Saami Parliament and head of the Saami Council’s Human Rights Unit, described the Forum as an opportunity to share innovations and practices, developed in indigenous communities “over centuries and millennia”.
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22/04/2019
22 April 2019 (UNFCCC)* — T
his year’s Mother Earth Day, celebrated on 22 April, has a special focus on education and climate change, and is an opportunity to look at what UN Climate Change and others are doing on the issue.
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Education and training are crucial to enable citizens to contribute to local and global efforts to meet the climate change challenge and the challenge of sustainable development. Increased knowledge and learning about the causes and impacts of climate change improves and protects lives.
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22/04/2019
22 Aoril 2019 (UN)* – “The Earth and its ecosystems are our home. In order to achieve a just balance among the economic, social, and environmental needs of present and future generations, it is necessary to promote harmony with nature and the Earth.
Students from the Agrarian University La Molina in agrometeorology field practice, in Lima, Perú. Photo WMO/Marlene Dapozzo Moali.
International Mother Earth Day is celebrated to remind each of us that the Earth and its ecosystems provide us with life and sustenance.
This Day also recognizes a collective responsibility, as called for in the 1992 Rio Declaration, to promote harmony with nature and the Earth to achieve a just balance among the economic, social and environmental needs of present and future generations of humanity.
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22/04/2019
Marking International Mother Earth Day, the UN on Monday [22 April 2019] debated how best to build “an equitable and sustainable future” for all, through enhanced education and climate action, on the road to a key international summit on the issue due to take place in September.
UN News/Laura Quiñones | Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
Billed officially as an Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature, the UN General Assembly session involved Member States and top officials discussing the need to take urgent action against the pace of global warming, in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, to keep carbon dioxide emissions to well-below two degrees Celsius.
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22/04/2019
Greta Thunberg’s Speech at Davos, January 2019
Appearing among billionaires, corporate CEO’s and heads of state at the Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland, like a new Joan of Arc, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg called on decision-makers to fulfill their responsibilities towards future generations. Here are some excerpts from her speech:
In August 2018, outside the Swedish parliament building, Greta Thunberg started a school strike for the climate. | Anders Hellberg | CC BY-SA 4.0
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22/04/2019
21 April 2019 (Wall Street International)* —
It has never been easy to understand what is happening in Lebanon. Homeland of the Phoenicians and cradle of civilizations crossed by Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, among many others, including Alexander the Great, until the recent military invasions of Syria and Israel.
The country was under the rule of the Turkish Empire for 400 years until the end of the First World War, in 1918. Year in which France declared it its Protectorate until 1943, when it granted independence.
The colonial powers, England and France, defined its borders, naturally responding to their interests after the partition of Palestine in 1948, to create the State of Israel.
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