30/11/2019
EXTREMA, Brazil, Nov 29 2019 (IPS)* – “They called me crazy” for fencing in the area where the cows went to drink water, said Elias Cardoso, on his 67-hectare farm in Extrema, a municipality 110 km from São Paulo, Brazil’s largest metropolis.| En español
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30/11/2019
29 November 2019 (UN News)* — Access to electricity has transformed the world, helping countries to develop their economies, and lifting millions out of poverty. However, this success has come at a great cost: the energy sector, heavily reliant on fossil fuels, is responsible for some 40 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions – one of the so-called greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the Earth – and almost two-thirds of these emissions come from coal.
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World Bank | Coal mines outside of Samaca, Colombia.
But, despite the United Nations calling urgently for an end to fossil fuels, hundreds of new coal-fired power stations are still being built, and hundreds more are in the pipeline.
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29/11/2019
27 November 2019 (Wall Street International)* — The second science fiction novel I read in my life (just after Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, to whom I almost copied the title of this text) Ender’s Game was a book that impressed me hardly; firstly because the author uses as protagonists 7 year old children to save the Earth from a space threat known as the Buggers.
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29/11/2019
A new ILO report highlights critical financing gaps in social protection and provides policy recommendations on how these gaps could be closed. | español français Русский Türkçe 中文
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29/11/2019
28 November 2019 (UN Environment)*— Interview with Musonda Mumba, UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) incoming chair of the Global Partnership on Forests and Landscape Restoration.
As you take on the role of chairing the Global Partnership on Forests and Landscape Restoration, tell us a little about yourself and your career path. Where are you from and how did you get interested in biodiversity, ecosystems and land degradation?
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29/11/2019
UNDP Mauritania/Freya Morales | A windmill park on the outskirts of Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania is aimed at giving more people access to renewable energy sources.
That’s the stark warning from the international community ahead of the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP25, which gets underway in the Spanish capital, Madrid, on 2 December.
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28/11/2019
Egypt, Iran, Algeria and Saudi Arabia are the top four producers of dates worldwide. © Rawpixel/shutterstock.com (Photo posted here from FAO).
28 November 2019 (FAO)* — Our food systems aren’t working as they should be. Over 820 million people are still going hungry on our planet today. At the same time, there is a worldwide obesity epidemic. Access, in terms of availability and cost, to healthy food is a major factor in both scenarios.
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28/11/2019
Putting Mediterranean and other traditional diets back on the consumer’s plate
The Mediterranean diet implies high intakes of diverse vegetables, fruits, legumes, herbs and olive oil. Vegetables are displayed on sale at a stall at the Esquilino market in Rome, Italy.
ROME, 27 November 2019 (FAO)* — Promoting traditional healthy diets is important for advancing our efforts towards a food system that respects the environment, culture and well-being of people, which is a fundamental element of sustainable development.
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