24/04/2020
(UN News)* — Sweeping preventative measures seem to be curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the Great Lakes region of Africa, but the economic impact of the global pandemic threatens hard-won gains made along the long road back to peace and stability, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the region said on Wednesday [22 April 2020].
© UNHCR/Georgina Goodwin | Burundian refugees at the Mulongwe settlement in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (file)
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Briefing the Security Council during open videoconference proceedings, Huang Xia urged the international community not to let up on its support for the continent-spanning region that includes Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda, among several other nations.
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23/04/2020
23 April 2020 (UN Environment)* — In the past, coronaviruses that circulated in humans caused only mild infections. This changed in 2002, when the SARS-CoV virus presented itself in humans as the disease we now know as SARS. In 2020, SARS-CoV-2–a relative of the same virus–has presented itself in humans in the disease we now call COVID-19.
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Bernard Bett leads research on neglected and emerging infectious diseases at the International Livestock Research Institute as part of the research portfolio under the Improving Human Health flagship.
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23/04/2020
Carbon dioxide levels at a key global observing station are about 26 percent higher than in 1970, whilst the average global temperature has increased by 0.86°C since then, and is 1.1°C warmer than the pre-industrial era.
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23/04/2020
NASA | The Earth, an image created from photographs taken by the Suomi NPP satellite.
Recognizing the “immediate and dreadful” impact of the coronavirus, the UN chief urged everyone to “work together to save lives, ease suffering and lessen the shattering economic and social consequence”.
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23/04/2020
(UN News)* — An expected drop in greenhouse gas emissions linked to the global economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is only “short-term good news”, the head of the UN weather agency said on Wednesday [22 April 2020].
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WMO/Kabelo Tamocha | The World Meteorological Organization says above average temperatures are expected in many parts of the world in the first months of 2020.
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22/04/2020
Nairobi, 22 April 2020 (UN Environment)* – In response to the COVID-19 crisis, an unprecedented coalition has come together to launch “Earth School,” which provides free, high-quality educational content to help students, parents and teachers around the world who are currently at home.
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Initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and TED-Ed, Earth School takes students on a 30-day “Adventure” through the natural world.
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22/04/2020
A central bank-financed UBI can fill the debt gap, providing a vital safety net while preventing cyclical recessions.
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According to an April 6 article on CNBC.com, Spain is slated to become the first country in Europe to introduce a universal basic income (UBI) on a long-term basis.
Spain’s Minister for Economic Affairs has announced plans to roll out a UBI “as soon as possible,” with the goal of providing a nationwide basic wage that supports citizens “forever.”
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22/04/2020
UN News* — The COVID-19 pandemic will herald the worst economic contraction in the history of Latin American and the Caribbean, with a projected -5.3 per cent drop in activity this year, according to a report by the UN office for the region,
ECLAC, published on Tuesday
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U.N. Mexico/Alexis Aubin | Shopping centres in Mexico City are largely empty as people are kept away by the threat of the coronavirus .COVID-19.
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22/04/2020
UN News* — The world is not only facing “a global health pandemic but also a global humanitarian catastrophe”, the UN food relief agency chief told the Security Council on Tuesday [21 April 2020] via video link.
FAO/IFAD/WFP/Michael Tewelde | In 2019, Ethiopia experienced the fifth-worst food crisis of all the countries on earth.
As millions of civilians in conflict-scarred nations teeter on the brink of starvation, he said, “famine is a very real and dangerous possibility”.
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22/04/2020
21 April 2020 (UN News)* — With most of the world’s students now at home due to COVID-19, the pandemic is revealing startling divides in digitally-based distance learning, data from the UN education and cultural agency, UNESCO, and partners has revealed.
UNICEF In response to school closures caused by COVID-19, UNESCO recommends the use of distance learning programmes to limit the disruption of education.
They found that half of all students currently out of the classroom – or nearly 830 million learners globally — do not have access to a computer. Additionally, more than 40 per cent have no Internet access at home.
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