13/08/2019
7 August 2019 (UN Environment)* — It’s close to midnight on a Sunday and the skies of Lagos hang dark over the glittering lights of the city’s 17.5 million residents. One of those lights is small fire in a field in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State, where 24-year-old John stands, tossing cables into the flames.
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Irene Galan / UN Environment
“I’ve been coming to this place for almost six years now, I like it because when I am here nobody disturbs me,” John says.
He is one of the hundreds of informal ‘pickers’ who make a living scavenging saleable materials from the Odo-Iyalaro scrapyard, home to a thriving informal market for electronic waste.
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13/08/2019
By Robert J. Burrowes*
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 13 August 2019 — Rainforests are a crucial feature of Earth’s biosphere. Apart from being critical to Earth’s climate and vital carbon sinks, the major player in Earth’s hydrological (water) cycle, a massive producer of oxygen and home to most of the world’s species, rainforests are the home of a large indigenous human population. They are also the source of many vital resources, including medicines, used by humans around the world.
The canopy at the Forest Research Institute Malaysia showing crown shyness | Author: Mikenorton | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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12/08/2019
How using land better is a vital part of surviving the climate crisis
Smoke rises during forest and plantation fires in Tanjung Taruna, Sub-district Jabiren Raya, District Pulang Pisau, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Indonesia’s government has declared a state emergency in six provinces at Sumatra and Kalimantan island as the forest fires in Indonesia get bigger. © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace
8 August 2019 (Greenpeace International)* — If we want to keep both our bodies and our planet healthy, we need to make big changes to the way we look after the land.
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12/08/2019
10 August 2019 (FAO)* — There are currently 1.8 billion people between the ages of 10 and 24 in the world, the largest young population ever.
Students drawing during a JFFLS session in Samba, Central African Republic. | Photo from FAO.
On the occasion of International Youth Day (12 August), have a look at FAO’s selection of publications relating to youth and their role as agents of change.
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12/08/2019
12 August 2019 (United Nations)* —
There are currently 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in the world. This is the largest youth population ever.
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Students of School#88 in Dushanbe rehabilitated and equipped under Education Reform Project. Tajikistan. Photo: © Gennadiy Ratushenko/World Bank
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12/08/2019
Schools are “not equipping young people with the skills they need to navigate the technological revolution”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned, in a message released to mark the UN’s International Youth Day [12 August 2019].
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Sarah Farhat/World Bank | Students in Primary Seven at Zanaki Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during an English language class.
Transforming Education is the theme for this year, which comes at a time when the world is facing a “learning crisis”, says Mr Guterres, and students need not only to learn, “but to learn how to learn”.
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12/08/2019
Indigenous peoples in the Philippines are increasingly involved in the national conversation about protecting and conserving the South East Asian country’s key biodiversity areas, thanks to support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
UNDP Philippines/Orange Omengan | An Egongot indigenous man balances on a yantok vine as he crosses from one tree to another in Dipaculao, Aurora, in the Philippines. (23 March 2019)
It is estimated that some 85 per cent of these areas are home to indigenous communities, who live in direct contact with nature and who have the traditional knowledge and skills to protect the environment.
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11/08/2019
Johan Galtung
O n l y i n A m e r i c a!
The black guy in Louisiana exclaimed, as we helped ourselves to a rather good meal from his buffet, eating to our heart’s delight.
However, we have had equally good meals elsewhere, even better–certainly more sophisticated, refined, not so sweet, not so salty.
But, for US $5? Maybe not.
Accessible to most people in such a big population? Maybe not.
What did that black guy know about meals around the world?
Probably not much.
But his “only in America” truth was of a deeper kind, transcending all the prejudice, discrimination, killing even lynching, he and his kind had been exposed to.
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