08/05/2020
Transformation of energy supply & new energy security architecture
The shift in oil prices posed the most recent challenge to an already complicated global energy chessboard | Image posted here from Wall Street International.
7 May 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Despite of permanent worldwide intentions to forecast the future of energy supply, where the estimates just a decade ago undeniably foresaw the barrel should gradually give way to gas, sun and wind, nowadays we can discuss the potential of increasingly diversified energy mix, however we are in a difficult position to provide any precise information regarding even the next day energy market situation.
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08/05/2020
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stands with those suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. UNEP is responding in a number of ways, including by supproting global efforts to protect biodiversity, to put an end to the illegal trade in wildlife, to safeguard the handling of chemicals and waste and to promote economic recovery plans that take nature and the climate emergency into account. This article is one of several highlighting UNEP’s duty to help nations build back better after the pandemic to increase resilience to future crises.

8 May 2020 (UN Environment)* — With scientists saying the polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s there is an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible to prevent catastrophic sea-level rise.
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08/05/2020
(UN News)* — Thousands of migrants have been stranded “all over the world” where they face a heightened risk of COVID-19 infection, the head of UN migration agency, IOM, said on Thursday [7 May 2020].
© UNHCR/Elizabeth Marie Stuart | Refugees practice physical distancing st a camp in South Sudan
“Health is the new wealth,” António Vitorino insisted, citing proposals by some countries to introduce so-called immunity passports and use mobile phone apps that are designed to prevent the spread of new coronavirus.
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08/05/2020
(UN News)* — To the millions around the world who celebrate the birth, enlightenment and passing of Lord Buddha, the UN chief sent warm wishes on Thursday [7 May 2020], officially marked as the Day of Vesak, noting that “we can all be inspired by his teachings”.
UN News/Jing Zhang | The Shwedagon is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar.
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