15/03/2022
The sad state of the accelerating climate crisis
March 2022 (Wall Street International)* — For far too many climate change activists, 2021 and the beginning of 2022 have plunged people into feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.
The inertia of the existing fossil fuel infrastructure and governments inability/unwillingness to implement tangible, collaborative, global solutions to the climate crisis is deeply entrenched, and seemingly intractable.
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10/03/2022
Protect our people and future generations: Water and Climate Leaders call for urgent action
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Geneva 8 March 2022 (WMO)* – Water and Climate Coalition leaders have issued a call for more urgent and united action “to protect our people and future generations” in the face of alarming new scientific evidence from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of growing global threats to water availability and from water-related hazards.
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10/03/2022
(UN News)* — Top UN-appointed rights investigators on Wednesday [9 March 2022] urged renewed efforts for a political solution to Syria’s devastating war, which has been marked by an uptick of violence and a deepening humanitarian crisis in recent months.
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© UNICEF | A displaced family in the Al-Hol camp in Syria.
Presenting the latest UN Human Rights Council-mandated report on the nearly 11-year-old conflictat a virtual press conference in Geneva, Paulo Pinheiro, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, described the “devastating” impact on communities.
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09/03/2022
LIMA, Mar 7 2022 (IPS)* – “Pachamama (Mother Earth) is upset with all the damage we are doing to her,” says Hilda Roca, an indigenous Peruvian farmer from Cusipata, in the Andes highlands of the department of Cuzco, referring to climate change and the havoc it is wreaking on her life and her environment. | En español
Peruvian farmer Hilda Roca, 37, stands in her agro-ecological garden in Cusipata, a town located at more than 3,300 meters above sea level in the highlands of Cuzco, where she grows vegetables for her family and sells the surplus with the support of her adolescent daughter and son. CREDIT: Mariela Jara/IPS
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09/03/2022
Rome, 7 March 2022 (FAO)* – Whether it’s new foods like jellyfish, edible insects and cell-based meat, or new technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology, the future promises exciting opportunities for feeding the world. However, the time to start preparing for any potential safety concerns is now.
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Technological and scientific innovations are revolutionizing the agrifood sector ©FAO/IAEA
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09/03/2022
9 March 2022 (UNEP)* — Whether it’s the Australian coast or the rainforests of Brazil, unrestrained wildfires – shrouded by black smoke and punctuated by the crackle of burning vegetation – have laid waste to some of the world’s most-iconic landscapes in recent years.
UN-REDD/Andri Tambunan / 09 Mar 2022
These blazes, directly and indirectly, impact millions of people and myriad habitats globally – and they’re becoming more common.
Record-breaking temperatures in 2021 increased the frequency and intensity of wildfires and their associated risks to human and environmental health, according to Spreading like Wildfire, a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal.
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08/03/2022
MADRID, Mar 7 2022 (IPS)* – The picture is gloomy: not only do women represent 70% of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of poverty, but also up to 40% of the poorest households in urban areas are headed by women.
Women predominate in the world’s food production (50-80 per cent), but they own less than 10 per cent of the land. Credit: Jency Samuel/IP
Should this not be enough, please know that:
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05/03/2022
© UNICEF/Juan Haro | Abdul, from Darfur, was forced to live in a house in Libya and work. He is now seeking asylum.
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The plastic bracelets the women wore in a bar in Argentina indicated the number of men they had been forced to have sex with. In Thailand, men and children from Myanmar were exploited in the fishing industry: an electric shock device was used if they refused to work.
And a Chinese symbol for “slave” was tattooed on the ankle of a woman in the United States.
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05/03/2022
(UN News)* — Global food prices reached an all-time high in February, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday [4 March 2022].
Unsplash/Jo-Anne McArthur | Dairy cows in Taiwan.
The Food Price Index, which tracks the international prices of a items such as vegetable oils and dairy products, averaged 140.7 points last month, or nearly four per cent up from January.
This is also 24.1 per cent over the level a year earlier and 3.1 points higher than in February 2011.
“Concerns over crop conditions and adequate export availabilities explain only a part of the current global food price increases. A much bigger push for food price inflation comes from outside food production, particularly the energy, fertilizer and feed sectors,” said FAO economist Upali Galketi Aratchilage.
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