1o March 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The ineptitude of the would-be king has been on display for all the world to see. He wants to be adored and worshipped as no president of this waning democracy has before him. He actually does not see himself as president, as even he knows that he was not duly elected. Instead he believes that he is or will be monarch for life. He rules over the inept and ignorant, but also over the powerful and greedy. Or perhaps not over them, but by the grace of their foolish support.
London, UK, March 2020– Fishing cargo vessels operating in pristine Antarctic waters are failing a majority of their safety inspections, Greenpeace International analysis of Port State Control inspection records has found.
The 26 refrigerated cargo vessels (or ‘reefers’) recorded transferring catch from fishing boats in the Antarctic in the period 2017-2019 failed 70% – 119 out of 168 – of their environmental and workers’ safety inspections in the same period. [1] In one case, a reefer reportedly carrying heavy fuel oil in Antarctic waters, a substance forbidden in the area, crashed into an iceberg, before later sinking in the South Atlantic.
10 March 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Could our financial and managerial leaders be ahead of many of our politicians and governments in climate improvements?
6 March 2020 (UN Environment)* — Chemicals and waste are integral to our everyday life, but they also have major impacts on the environment and human health. As the world’s population approaches 8 billion, the sound management of chemicals and waste is becoming ever more important.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) works closely with governments, international organizations, industry and civil society organizations around the world to develop mainstream solutions for the sound management of chemicals and waste.
(UN News)* — A wide-ranging UN climate report, released on Tuesday [10 March 2020], shows that climate change is having a major effect on all aspects of the environment, as well as on the health and wellbeing of the global population.
WMO Video screen shot | An unusually early and exceptionally intense heatwave has set new temperature records in Europe, posing a major threat to people’s health, agriculture and the environment.
9 March 2020 (UN Environment)* — It is nightfall in the village of Char Baghutia in Manikganj district in central Bangladesh. Twenty-seven-year-old Miriam is hunched over a rickety old sewing machine, under a single incandescent lamp, with one hand over the cloth and the other rocking her one-year-old baby to sleep. Her husband, a day labourer, is miles away in Dhaka.
Downside scenario sees a $2 trillion shortfall in global income. UNCTAD calls for coordinated policymaking to prevent a global economic meltdown.
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9 March 2020 (UNCTAD)* — The spread of the coronavirus is first and foremost a public health emergency, but it’s also a significant economic threat. The COVID-19 shock will cause a recession in some countries and depress global annual growth this year to below 2.5%, the recessionary threshold for the world economy.
Young people face an uncertain future in the labour market because of automation, the narrow focus of much vocational training and the lack of jobs to match their qualifications, says a new ILO report.
GENEVA, 9 March 2020 (ILO)* – The number of young people currently not in employment, education or training (NEET) is rising, and young women are more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to be affected, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report.
5 March 2020 (WMO)* — The past winter was by far the warmest on record for Europe, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF. It was the second warmest February, both globally and for Europe.
From December 2019 to February 2020, there was persistent mild weather over Europe, particularly in the north and east. The average temperature was almost 1.4°C higher than that of the previous warmest winter, 2015/16 (when there was a strong El Niño) and 3.4ºC above the 1981-2010 norm.
FAO calls for $900 million to support the livelihoods of 43 million people facing acute hunger
Vaccinating a beneficiary’s cow in an area supported by FAO in Alzaydiah, Yemen.
ROME, 9 March 2020 (FAO)* — While global attention has focused on the swarms of Desert Locusts attacking crops in East Africa, a number of other countries and regions are also confronting serious food security threats and require support, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) works closely with governments, international organizations, industry and civil society organizations around the world to develop mainstream solutions for the sound management of chemicals and waste.
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