23/01/2020
23 January 2020 (UN Environment)* — With only 10 years left to achieve the
Sustainable Development Goals, world leaders in September 2019 called for accelerated action
in the next decade to deliver at the scale and speed required. Climate change and global heating however, are increasing the likelihood and intensity of wildfires, which could have a growing impact on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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23/01/2020
1. Physical, direct impacts
Over 18 million hectares have burned in the Australian bushfire season 2019–2020 as of mid-January according to media reports, destroying over 5,900 buildings including over 2,800 homes. In addition to human fatalities, many millions of animals are reported to have been killed.
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23/01/2020
The start of the New Year finds the world facing four looming threats to human progress: surging geopolitical tensions, the climate crisis, global mistrust and the downsides of technology, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday [22 January 2020]. (*).
UN Photo/Mark Garten | Secretary-General António Guterres (left) briefs the General Assembly meeting on his Priorities for 2020 and the Work of the Organization.
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22/01/2020
ABUJA, Jan 21 2020 (IPS)* –– The coronavirus outbreak — which began in Wuhan, China, and causes a pneumonia-like illness — is raging across Asia, infecting close to 300 people and killing four. It was initially known to be transmitted from animals to human, and was just confirmed to be transmitted from human to human.
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of MERS virus particles (yellow) both budding and attached to the surface of infected VERO E6 cells (blue). Credit: NIAID
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22/01/2020
21 January 2020 (UN News)* — Following an announcement by China’s national health body that a new virus first identified there, can be transmitted from person to person, the World Health Organization (WHO) is to hold a meeting on Wednesday [22 January 2020] to decide if it should be declared a global health emergency.
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Unsplash/Michael Amadeus | A women wearing a face mask.
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22/01/2020
(UN News)*— Recent heightened tensions in the Middle East underscore the critical need for dialogue and diplomacy in the region, the UN’s Political Affairs chief told the Security Council on Tuesday [21 January 2020].
World Bank/Natalia Cieslik | Children walk on road in Gaza, where the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) maintain food assistance to over one million Palestine refugees.
Rosemary DiCarlo was briefing ambassadors on developments related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as recent protests in Lebanon, against the backdrop of the crisis sparked by the killing of a top Iranian general by the United States earlier this month.
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21/01/2020
Greed Is the Most Deadly of Sins
Greed, in particular the greed of corporations and billionaire oligarchs, is driving human civilization and the biosphere towards disaster.
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21/01/2020
Around half a billion people work fewer paid hours than they would like, or are not getting enough access to paid work, shows a study published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Monday [20 January 2020], which also forecasts that unemployment will rise by about 2.5 million this year. (*).
ILO/Marcel Crozet | A construction worker builds a cylindrical metal structure in Yangon, Myanmar.
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21/01/2020
Tobacco smokers who quit at least four weeks before undergoing surgery not only have a lower risk of complications, but also show better results six months later than those who continue, the United Nations health agency said on Monday [20 January 2020]. (*).
OCHA/Rawsht Twana | A man in Shaqlawa, Iraq, sits smoking, waiting for dawn.
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21/01/2020
20 January 2020 (UN News)* — Twenty-two journalists were reported killed in the Latin America and Caribbean region in 2019, making it the deadliest part of the world for the press, followed by 15 in Asia-Pacific, and 10 in Arab States.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas | Journalists at the UN (file)
The figures come from the Observatory of Killed Journalists database, which is maintained by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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