11/12/2019
It is “imperative” that the COP25 climate conference underway in Spain delivers “significant results now”, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the UN General Assembly (PGA), said on Tuesday [10 December 2019]. (*).
WMO/Injoo Hong | Storm clouds forming over Banghwa-ri in Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea.
“Science is unequivocal on the urgency to act, both at global and national levels”, he told the conference to address the climate crisis – officially known as the 25th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Mr. Muhammad-Bande recalled the consensus reached through the Paris Agreement to limit the rise in temperature to 2ºC above pre-industrial levels and efforts to hold it to 1.5ºC.
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11/12/2019
10 December 2019 (UN News)* — Covering around 27 per cent of the earth’s land surface, mountains play a critical role in moving the world’s towards sustainable economic growth. With the future in mind, the theme for this year’s international day celebrating the world’s peaks and summits on Wednesday [11 December 2019], is Mountains matter for Youth.
WMO/Vladimir Nolic | Spomen park Kadinjaca, Serbia, during a storm.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), mountains not only provide sustenance and well-being to 1.1 billion mountain people around the world but also indirectly benefit billions more living downstream.
And they provide freshwater, energy and food – resources that will grow increasingly scarce over the coming decades.
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10/12/2019
Young people represent the majority of the population in most developing countries, where they are often directly exposed to the effects of climate change, conflict, exclusion or economic instability. And in many parts of the world, it is still difficult for youth to be heard — and to influence decision-making processes.
UNDP is proud to continue to help empower young people to better know and claim their rights – which is critical to help build a brighter, more sustainable and more inclusive future. ©UNDP / Freya Morales
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10/12/2019
© UNICEF David Berkwitz | High school girls from Long Island, New York, join other youth climate activists in a demonstration calling for global action to combat climate change. (20 September 2019)
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10/12/2019
A Muslim man grieving over his son’s grave in Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 1994. UN Photo/John Isaac
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10/12/2019
9 December 2019 (UN News)* — Too often, “the world has failed” populations under threat of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing, Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of Genocide on Monday [9 December 2019].
UN Photo/Violaine Martin | Marking the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (2019).
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09/12/2019
Why Climate Is an Emergency
John Scales Avery
The central problem which the world faces in its attempts to avoid catastrophic climate change is a contrast of time scales.
In order to save human civilization and the biosphere from the most catastrophic effects of climate change we need to act immediately. Fossil fuels must be left in the ground. Forests must be saved from destruction by beef or palm oil production.
These vitally necessary actions are opposed by powerful economic interests, by powerful fossil fuel corporations desperate to monetize their underground “assets”, and by corrupt politicians receiving money from the beef or palm oil industries.
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09/12/2019
8 December 2019 (UN News)* — As we enter a decade of ambitious action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), stepping up efforts to eradicate corruption and promote good governance is “essential…to deliver on our global pledge to leave no one behind”, the UN anti-crime chief has said.
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09/12/2019
9 December 2019 (UN News)* — Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a “new generation of inequalities” indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) argues in its latest report released on Monday [9 December 2019].
UNDP 2019 Human Development Report says business as usual will not solve new generation of inequalities.
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The 2019
Human Development Report (HDR) states that just as the gap in basic living standards is narrowing for millions of people, inequalities surrounding education, and around technology and climate change, have sparked demonstrations across the globe.
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08/12/2019
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Dec 6 2019 (IPS)* – While opening a newspaper or watching a TV program we are every day made aware of the plights of irregular migrants. Some recent examples among many – on 24 October, 39 Chinese nationals were found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex. They had apparently frozen to death within a refrigerator container with temperatures as low as -25C (-13F).
This while tragedies occur almost daily on the Mediterranean Sea. On 26 November, a rescue vessel found a boat almost completely sunken.
It had three dead bodies aboard. Fifty-five migrants were saved.
Three of them were in a critical condition, and one died after reaching Melilla in Spain, where the migrants were brought in.
Three children were among the survivors, though a further ten individuals were reported missing. Nowadays, such news items pass by almost imperceptibly.
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