'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
The amazing impact of a 10 trillion dollars-worth chemical industry.
Why do chemicals and waste matter? | UN Environment.
In case you were not aware or just do not remember: all you eat, drink, breathe, wear, take as a medicine, the cosmetics you use, the walls of your house, among others, is full of chemicals.
And all is really ALL.
7 July 2019 (ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons)* — On July 7th, 2017 we made history together. Can you believe it’s been two years since the historic UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was adopted?
In that time, ICAN campaigners around the world have kept pushing to promote this treaty and end nuclear weapons, and they’re achieving some incredible successes. Will you join them?
Volatile shelling affects vital water infrastructure five times during the last week of June.
KYIV/GENEVA (UNICEF)* – An escalation in fighting is threatening access to safe water and sanitation for 3.2 million people, including 500,000 children, as well as the safety of workers risking their lives to repair damaged infrastructure in Eastern Ukraine, said UNICEF on 4 July 2019.
4 July 2019 (openDemocracy)* – The words “tax haven” tend to conjure up images of palm-fringed Caribbean beaches and whitewashed buildings covered in the brass plates of shell companies.
LONDON, 4 July 2019 (UN Environment)* – The world’s first financial facility to offer green bonds for sustainable soy production in Brazil was launched today 4 July 2019 at London Climate Action Week.
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eggroll/Pixabay | Photo from UN Environment.
The Responsible Commodities Facility, unveiled at the London Stock Exchange, plans to provide low-interest credit lines to Brazilian soy and corn farmers who commit to using degraded pasture and avoid clearing forests and native grassland for agriculture. For farmers, the initiative will offer an important complement to official credit lines.
Mexico City (FAO)* – A joint action program to promote rural development and the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger so that migration becomes an option and not a necessity, is the objective of a High-level meeting on migration, development and food security in Mesoamerica that kicked-off in Mexico City on 2 July 2019.
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