03/12/2020
Countries must decrease production of fossil fuels by 6 per cent per year, between 2020 and 2030, if the world is to avert “catastrophic” global temperature rise, a new UN-backed report has found.*
ESCAP Photo/Christian Dohrmann | A new report has urged countries to cut the production of fossil fuels by 6 per cent, per year, to avoid catastrophic global warming. Pictured here, a cargo train, laden with coal, waits at a railway station in India. (file photo)
Released, on Wednesday [2 December 2020], in the shadows of the coronavirus pandemic, the Production Gap Report also revealed that while the pandemic and resulting lockdowns led to “short-term drops” in coal, oil and gas production, pre-COVID plans and post-COVID stimulus measures point to a continuation of increasing fossil fuel production.
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03/12/2020
(UN News)* — The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has described the fight against the climate crisis as the top priority for the 21st Century, in a passionate, uncompromising speech delivered on Wednesday [2 December 2020] at Columbia University in New York.
NASA | The Earth, an image created from photographs taken by the Suomi NPP satellite.
The landmark address marks the beginning of a month of UN-led climate action, which includes the release of major reports on the global climate and fossil fuel production, culminating in a climate summit on 12 December, the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
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01/12/2020
1 December 2020 (WMO)* — The extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended on 30 November with a record-breaking 30 named tropical storms, including 13 hurricanes and six major hurricanes. There were 12 landfalling storms in the continental United States.
This is the most storms on record, surpassing the 28 from 2005, and the second-highest number of hurricanes on record.
2020 marked the fifth consecutive year with an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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01/12/2020
Conservation Agriculture advocates leaving crop residues on fields, creating an organic cover that gives nutrients back to the soil. Lal believes that “people are a mirror image of the soil they live upon.” For us to be healthy, soils need to be healthy. ©Ohio State University/K. Chamberlain
1 December 2020 (FAO)* — Growing up on a small farm in India, Dr. Rattan Lal experienced much of the hardship faced by today’s smallholder farmers. His family didn’t have running water or electricity, but he explains, “We never missed it because that was the way everybody lived.”
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01/12/2020
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 30 2020 (IPS)* – A world free from hunger is possible but only if we change how we grow and eat food. And resetting the food system — including all aspects of production, processing, marketing, distribution and the consumption and nutrition of food — is key to securing a sustainable food future post COVID-19.
Transforming food systems means farmers producing adequate and nutritious food for consumers. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
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01/12/2020
1 December 2020 (UN News)* — A 19-year-old woman from Nicaragua in Central America has been telling the United Nations how she was traded as “currency” in a card game, and then trafficked and abused.
UN Costa Rica/ Danilo Mora | Lilith, a 19-year-old woman, and her son fled Nicaragua after being trafficked and sexually abused.
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Lilith, not her real name, who now has a three-year-old son, was able to flee to neighbouring Costa Rica, where she has dedicated her life to protecting and preventing violence and abuse against young women and girls.
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30/11/2020
Global malaria gains threatened by access gaps, COVID-19 and funding shortfalls
UNICEF/Colfs |A child sleeps under an insecticide treated mosquito net for protection against malaria
30 November 2020 (WHO)* — The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on countries and global health partners to step up the fight against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that continues to claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year.
A better targeting of interventions, new tools and increased funding are needed to change the global trajectory of the disease and reach internationally-agreed targets.
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30/11/2020
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30 November 2020 (WHO)* — Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites. The parasites are spread to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes, called “malaria vectors.” There are 5 parasite species that cause malaria in humans, and 2 of these species – P. falciparum and P. vivax – pose the greatest threat.
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30/11/2020
World malaria report 2020 – Latest data on malaria trends in 87 countries
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30 November 2020 (WHO)* — Each year, more than 400 000 people die of malaria – a preventable and treatable disease.
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An estimated two thirds of deaths are among children under the age of five.
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30/11/2020
30 November 2020 (UN News)* — A host of countries have recently announced major commitments to significantly cut their carbon emissions, promising to reach “net zero” in the coming years. The term is becoming a global rallying cry, frequently cited as a necessary step to successfully beat back climate change, and the devastation it is causing.
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Maxime Pontoire | A person carrying a red sun brolly walks through a solar panel farm in France.
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What is net zero and why is it important?
Put simply, net zero means we are not adding new emissions to the atmosphere. Emissions will continue, but will be balanced by absorbing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.
Practically every country has joined the Paris Agreement on climate change, which calls for keeping the global temperature to 1.5°C above pre-industrial era levels. If we continue to pump out the emissions that cause climate change, however, temperatures will continue to rise well beyond 1.5, to levels that threaten the lives and livelihoods of people everywhere.
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