20/11/2020
(UN News)* — Pointing to its “pioneering legislation and policies”, on Thursday [19 November 2020 ] the UN chief hailed the 27-member European Union (EU) as a “a leader on climate action”, that had shown that it was possible to cut emissions while achieving economic growth.
UN Photo/David Mutua | Young girls wait by a shallow well during a humanitarian mission in drought-affected Garbahaarey, a town in southern Somalia.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres applauded the bloc’s climate action in a virtual address to the European Council on Foreign Relations, while emphasizing that “we are still nowhere near the finish line… and still running behind in the race against time”.
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18/11/2020
(UN News)* — A UN-backed fund, launched on Tuesday [17 November 2020 ], is set to take on the centuries-old crisis centred around sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health, which now impacts more than four billion people across the world.
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© UNICEF/Antoine Raab | Children at a school in Cambodia wash their hands using a water facility provided by UNICEF.
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Speaking, via a video message, at the launch of the Fund, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed described safe sanitation and hygiene as “critical to the response that we want to see, first, because it is about human dignity; second, it is a health issue.”
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18/11/2020
(UN News)* — The United Nations
released $100 million of emergency funding on Tuesday
[17 November 2020] to stave off the risk of famine in seven countries most at risk from a hunger epidemic fueled by conflict, economic decline, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNICEF | A Yemeni child suffering from malnutrition at a treatment centre in a hospital in Sana’a. (file)
Mark Lowcock, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said $80 million would be split between Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen, which would get the biggest tranche of $30 million. A further $20 million had been set aside for Ethiopia, where droughts could worsen an already fragile situation.
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16/11/2020
On 14 July 2020, Ruksana Begum fetches water near the raised homestead where her family has been living since floodwaters submerged their house in Amtola Char in Chilmari Upazila, Kurigram, Bangladesh. UN Water
(United Nations)* — Over half of the global population or 4.2 billion people lack safe sanitation and around 297,000 children under five – more than 800 every day – die annually from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor hygiene, poor sanitation or unsafe drinking water.
Without safely managed, sustainable sanitation, people often have no choice but to use unreliable, inadequate toilets or practise open defecation.
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16/11/2020
Eriam Sheikh,7 year old comes out after using the toilet on stilts or floating toilet built over a drain passing by Rafiq Nagar in Mumbai. PHOTO:UN Water
16 November 2020 (United Nations)* — World Toilet Day celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 4.2 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.
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16/11/2020
15 November 2020 (UN News)* — With the world population
expected to rise to 9.7 billion by 2050, food production will need to keep pace, and experts believe the Ocean can provide much of the sustenance we need. The second story in our two-part series on aquaculture focuses on the opportunities for significantly scaling up fish farming.
© FAO/Amine Landoulsi | FAO is helping to create sustainable livelihoods for female clam collectors in Tunisia.
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15/11/2020
Marakera, an Ethiopian 5-year-old boy, drinks clean piped water. Photo UNICEF Ethiopia/Ayene.
Over the coming years, our water-related challenges will become more urgent. The increasing demands of a growing population and rapidly developing global economy, combined with the effects of climate change, will exacerbate lack of access to water and sanitation for domestic uses.
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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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