03/12/2023
(UN News)* — Deadly torrential rains and floods have affected more than two million people in several areas of Somalia, with over 100 killed and 750,000 displaced from their homes, the authorities and humanitarian partners said on Thursday [30 November 2023] in the capital, Mogadishu.
© UNICEF | File photo from May 2023 when Beledweyne town was flooded after the Shabelle River burst its banks.
The crisis began with the start of the deyr rainy season in October and comes six months after the country emerged from a historic drought that brought it to the brink of widespread famine.
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01/12/2023
(UN News)* — The world is heating up at an unprecedented pace, new climate data shows, and leaders gathered for the COP28 conference which opened in Dubai on Thursday [30 November 2023] must get us out of “deep trouble”, UN chief António Guterres said.
© UNICEF/Ulet Ifansasti | A man crosses parched farmland in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
While 2023 is not yet over, a provisional report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that it is set to be the warmest on record, with global temperatures rising 1.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Mr. Guterres said that the race is on to keep alive the 1.5-degree limit agreed by world leaders in Paris in 2015.
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01/12/2023
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 29 2023 (IPS)* – Many in the wealthy West have misrepresented the causes of global warming, offering false solutions while claiming the high moral ground. This distracts attention from how they became wealthy while emitting greenhouse gases.
Tragedy or farce?
Growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the industrial age have caused global warming, with their accumulation continuing to accelerate despite being close to exceeding 1.5°C warming and its associated tipping points.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
This is sometimes depicted as due to the failure to sustainably manage the atmosphere as a shared resource.
The ‘tragedy of the commons’ refers to a community’s inability to manage a common resource sustainably.
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30/11/2023
Geneva/Dubai (WMO)* 30 November 2023 – 2023 has shattered climate records, accompanied by extreme weather which has left a trail of devastation and despair, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Key messages
- 2023 set to be warmest year on record
- Greenhouse gas levels continue to increase
- Record sea surface temperatures and sea level rise
- Record low Antarctic sea ice
- Extreme weather causes death and devastation
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30/11/2023
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 22 2023 (IPS)* – In recent decades, failure to sustain economic progress has been blamed on a supposed middle-income country (MIC) trap. Such blaming obscures as much as it supposedly explains.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
The ‘middle-income trap’ fable began as a World Bank story about why upper MICs in Latin America failed to become high-income countries (HICs) after pursuing policies required or prescribed by the Bretton Woods institutions.
Bretton Woods’ Frankenstein
The 1944 Bretton Woods rules-based international monetary system ended in August 1971 when President Richard Nixon unilaterally repudiated US obligations. This happened after the US Treasury had borrowed heavily from the rest of the world from the 1960s.
The US government’s ‘exorbitant privilege’ of ‘spending well beyond its means’ has continued despite the resulting international monetary ‘non-system’.
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28/11/2023
By UN Environment Programme (UNEP)*
23 NOV 2023 — Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest global health threats. It was associated with an estimated five million deaths in 2019, and if left unchecked, it could have a catastrophic impact on people and the economy.
Research from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows it could shave US$ 3.4 trillion off GDP annually and push 24 million people into extreme poverty in the next decade.
Pollution from the pharmaceutical, agriculture and healthcare sectors is one of the main drivers of AMR, which occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites evolve over time and develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to combat them.
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28/11/2023
Aden, 23 November 2023 (IOM)* – Navigating their journey against the backdrop of Yemen’s ninth year of conflict, migrants face unprecedented challenges. In this fragile environment, over 93,000 individuals arrived in Yemen between January and October 2023.
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Samara tenderly holds her newborn, a symbol of hope amid the multitude of challenges she has faced throughout her migration journey. Photo: IOM/Rami Ibrahim 2023
Among them, optimistic souls like Samara seek opportunities in the Gulf, unaware of the perils that lie ahead. Compounded by limited access to essential services, their vulnerability to abuses, including gender-based violence and exploitation, is exacerbated.
As a young girl growing up in Ethiopia, Samara*’s life took a harrowing turn when her parents got divorced. Samara and her sister were placed under the care of their father and abusive stepmother after her mother moved to another village.
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28/11/2023
On 3 July 2023, MSF team onboard of Geo Barents conducted 4 different rescues in the Maltese SAR zone. In total, 196 survivors were rescued, including 47 unaccompanied minors, 16 women, and 1 baby. In the first rescue, our team was guided by aerial support from Pilotes Volontaires during the active search for this boat, which lasted more than 1.5 hours.
While the last 3 rescues were all coordinated through the Italian MRCC. The Italian authorities have assigned us Marina di Carrara as a place of #safety to disembark the survivors.© MSF/MICHELA RIZZOTTI
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27/11/2023
A Ugandan woman who has a physical disability is learning how to fight for her and other women’s rights after suffering a life “full of pain”, thanks to a UN-supported programme.
UN Women | Angela Muhindo in Kasese, western Uganda.
“My life has been full of pain,” she said, surveying the green landscape where she spent her childhood in Kasese, in Uganda’s western region. “In my community, women have less power, but if you are disabled, you are even more vulnerable to exploitation.”
Ms. Muhindo, who has had a physical disability since childhood, said she has faced violence and exclusion throughout her life.
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25/11/2023
NAIROBI, Nov 22 2023 (IPS)* – In a groundbreaking development, indigenous farmer communities are poised to bring the spotlight onto food systems at the upcoming UN Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai.
Christine Nalienya, a farmer in western Kenya, winnowing beans outside her home. Bean farmers confront various challenges, yet as smallholder farmers, they receive little support. Credit: Robert Kibet/IPS
Recent research revealing that food systems contribute to roughly one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions has spurred a compelling call to action.
Furthermore, as one-third of the world’s food goes to waste, an alarming over 700 million people grapple with hunger. At the same time, a staggering 3 billion individuals cannot access a nutritious diet.
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