17/06/2020
17 June 2020 (United Nations)* — Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. It is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations. Desertification does not refer to the expansion of existing deserts. It occurs because dryland ecosystems, which cover over one third of the world’s land area, are extremely vulnerable to overexploitation and inappropriate land use. Poverty, political instability, deforestation, overgrazing and bad irrigation practices can all undermine the productivity of the land.
An extra 593 million hectares of agricultural land, an area nearly twice the size of India, will be required by 2050 over 2010 levels. Photo: Avijit Ghosh – Future Without Green | (India)/ UNCDD Photo contest 2018.
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17/06/2020
Paris/Nairobi, 16 June 2020 (UN Environment)* – Growth in renewable power has been impressive over the past five years. But too little is happening in heating, cooling and transport. Overall, global hunger for energy keeps increasing and eats up progress, according to REN21’s Renewables 2020 Global Status Report (GSR), released today. The journey towards climate disaster continues, unless we make an immediate switch to efficient and renewable energy in all sectors in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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17/06/2020
Gastronomy is a cultural expression of the world’s natural and cultural diversity. On June 18, we celebrate Sustainable Gastronomy Day and acknowledge that everyone plays a role in making sustainable choices for healthy diets and a food-secure future. @ Chompoo Suriyo/ shutterstock.com
18 June 2020 (FAO)* — Every year, June 18 marks Sustainable Gastronomy Day. This begs the questions: 1) What in the world is sustainable gastronomy? 2) Why is it important enough to have a “day” dedicated to it? and 3) Even so, why should I care?
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17/06/2020
(UN News)* — Trade in many developing countries is expected to take a “nosedive” in the second quarter of 2020, owing to the unprecedented effects of the coronavirus pandemic, UN economists said on Tuesday [16 June 2020].
UN News/Daniel Dickinson | Many container ports, like this one in New York City, have seen a decline in activity as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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In a new
report from UN trade and development body,
UNCTAD, it highlighted data showing that the value of international trade in goods has declined by about five per cent between January and March.
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Worrying as that is, commerce is expected to plummet further – by a staggering 27 per cent – from April to the end of June.
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16/06/2020
WASHINGTON (WORLD BANK)* — Global remittances are projected to decline sharply by about 20 percent in 2020 due to the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown.
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The projected fall, which would be the sharpest decline in recent history, is largely due to a fall in the wages and employment of migrant workers, who tend to be more vulnerable to loss of employment and wages during an economic crisis in a host country.
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16/06/2020
16 June 2020 (United Nations)* — This year, the International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) on 16 June 2020 is observed under unprecedented conditions. COVID-19 has changed the world. Millions of migrant workers are losing their jobs, and many remittance families are suddenly pushed below the poverty line – bringing to a halt, efforts to reach their own individual SDGs.
Over 200 million migrant workers sent US$554 billion back to their families in remittance-reliant countries in 2019. Photo: © IFAD
Remittance families are typically both resourceful and resilient in the face of difficult circumstances and changing conditions. But COVID-19 is disrupting an entire system that directly involves 200 million migrant workers, half of them women, around the world and their 800 million family members back home.
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16/06/2020
(UN News)* — Boys and girls used and abused in armed conflict have had their childhoods replaced by “pain, brutality and fear while the world watches”, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, said on Monday [15 June 2020].
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© UNICEF/Helene Sandbu Ryeng | On 26 May 2020 in Juba, South Sudan, children released from armed forces are seated on the ground while negotiations for their reintegration take place.
Launching the Secretary-General’s Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba maintained that parties to conflict often “neglect to protect children in the conduct of hostilities and deny them the vital aid they desperately need”. The tragedy children face continued unabated throughout 2019, the report highlighted, disclosing that the UN had verified over 25,000 grave violations against children.
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16/06/2020
17 June 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The amazing turn of events in the USA in the two weeks following the horrific killing of George Floyd, cradled within an even more astounding turn of events across the world in the last few months, offers us an occasion for stunned reflection. Humanity’s deep faultlines – racist, masculinist, classist, casteist, and more – have been sharply exposed in both. As have the faultlines between humanity and the rest of nature, and those of what we have mistakenly come to call ‘democracy’.
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15/06/2020
By Hilde F. Johnson, Norway’s Former Minister of International Development*
15 June 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The Corona crisis could lead half a billion people into poverty. That is 8 percent of the world’s population. This according to a new UN report. COVID-19 risks becoming a major accelerator of poverty.
The report is based on data from the World Bank and presents three different scenarios and their impact on poor households. In all of them, global poverty will increase and the fate of poor people around the world will worsen.
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