15/11/2020
13 November 2020 (UN News)* — As the number of people with diabetes surges, many are at “increased risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19”, the UN chief said in his message for
World Diabetes Day, on Saturday
[13 November 2020].
World Health Organization | Nearly one in five COVID-19 deaths in the African region is linked to diabetes, according to the World Health Organization.
“Many efforts have been made to prevent and treat diabetes”, but the disease continues to rise rapidly in low and middle income countries, those “least well-equipped with the diagnostics, medicines, and knowledge to provide life-saving treatment”, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
A gloomy picture
Globally, some 422 million adults are living with diabetes (latest figures from 2014), according to the World Health Organization (WHO), compared to around 108 million in 1980 – rising from 4.7 to 8.5 per cent in the adult population.
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14/11/2020
14 November 2020 (UN News)* — If just two per cent of the Ocean were to be sustainably farmed, the world could easily be fed, according to experts. In the first story of a two-part series looking at the opportunities and challenges facing Ocean farming, we take a look at the huge potential role of seaweed in mitigating climate change, cutting marine pollution, and achieving the UN goal of
Zero Hunger.
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Unsplash/Shane Stagner | Kelp, a type of seaweed, can be fed to animals and could help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
‘We are still hunter-gatherers’
“When it comes to the ocean, we are still hunter-gatherers”, says Vincent Doumeizel, a senior advisor on ocean-based solutions at the UN Global Compact, and an evangelist for seaweed.
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14/11/2020
Letter to Greta Thunberg: before enacting new policies
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13 November 2020 (Wall Street International)*
Dear Greta,
Last September, European Union President Ursula Von der Leyen announced that by 2030, she wants Europe carbon-neutral, to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by 55%, and to spearhead a digital revolution. In the U.S. that same month, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state will reduce its GHGs by prohibiting sales of new gas-powered vehicles beginning in 2035.
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14/11/2020
An outbreak of African Migratory Locusts threatens farmers in regions of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia. ©FAO/Phillipus Tobias.
13 November 2020 (FAO)* — “This is the first time seeing such a scary situation ever since I was born here. Nothing else can compare to such a serious threat,” said farmer Fabian Sisamu. “It is the worst situation ever; we are fearful of the future,” his friend Ian Mubita adds, disheartened by what may lay ahead.
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14/11/2020
“Early studies of weather, seasonality, and environmental influences on COVID19 have yielded inconsistent and confusing results. To provide policy-makers and the public with meaningful and actionable environmentally-informed COVID-19 risk estimates, the research community must meet robust methodological and communication standards,” state the paper’s authors.
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14/11/2020
13 November 2020 (UNEP)* — The 2020 consultations between the five Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden – and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) generated substantial and frank discussions on issues like climate change, nature and sustainable development, say participants.
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13/11/2020
(UN News)* — The fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “go hand in hand”, the UN chief told a major development bank conference on Thursday [12 November 2020].
© World Bank/Aisha Faquir | The UN chief underscores the importance of rebooting economies to put them firmly on the path to a sustainable future, particularly in developing countries, like Nepal (pictured).
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13/11/2020
(UN News)* — Measles killed an estimated 207,500 people last year after a decade-long failure to reach optimal vaccination coverage, resulting in the highest number of cases for 23 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said in a joint report on Thursday [12 November 2020].
UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye | In June 2020, a measles vaccination campaign targeting 14 million children was launched in Ethiopia.
The death toll in 2019 was 50 per cent higher than a historic low reached in 2016, and all WHO regions saw an increase in cases, adding up to a global total of 869,770.
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13/11/2020
(UN News)* — A bold new blueprint to tackle all neglected tropical diseases has been agreed at the UN health agency’s World Health Assembly, which will involve a radical shift in approach by Member States and non-state actors, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday [12 November 2020].
UN Photo/BZ | A technician vaccinates a small child, February 1964, in Togo, where the Government carried out an extensive anti-yaws campaign, assisted by experts from the World Health Organization. UNICEF supplied the equipment.
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13/11/2020
(UN News)* — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Thursday [12 November 2020] reported yet another devastating shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean, which has claimed the lives of at least 74 migrants off the coast of Khums, Libya. It is the eighth such incident since the beginning of October.
IOM/Hussein Ben Mosa | There were just 47 survivors when a boat carrying over 120 people, capsized off the Libyan coast on Thursday.
The boat was reported to be carrying more than 120 people, among them women and children. A total of 47 survivors were brought to shore by the coast guard and local fishermen. More than 30 bodies have been retrieved, but the search continues.
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