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28/09/2020

‘Unprecedented Wildfires, Storms and Glacier Melt Are the Strongest Indications Yet of How Climate Change Threatens Life on Earth’

Another wake-up call: sea ice loss is speeding up

Polar_bear_(Ursus_maritimus)_in_the_drift_ice_region_north_of_SvalbardPhoto by Andreas Weith/Wikimedia Commons

28 September 2020 (UN Environment)* — Unprecedented wildfires, storms and glacier melt are the strongest indications yet of how climate change threatens life on Earth. The world has seen big declines in summer sea ice in the last two decades, with the lowest extent recorded in 2012.

13 September 2020 marked a new, troubling milestone – with Arctic sea ice shrinking to the second-lowest extent ever recorded.

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28/09/2020

Stop Food Loss and Waste. For the People. For the Planet

Boats laden with fresh food.

Floating market on a canal in Bangkok, where local boats are laden with fresh food. | PHOTO:©Mint Images

The COVID-19 pandemic continues generating significant challenges to food security in many countries. Disruptions in supply chains, quarantine measures, the closure of much of the hospitality industry and schools…

All these measures have resulted in a loss of markets for producers and distributors, making the situation even more challenging while dealing with high levels of food waste.

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28/09/2020

‘One-Third of Food Produced for Human Consumption Is Lost or Wasted While More than 820 Million People Continue to Go Hungry Every Day’

Vendor and consumer transaction in a supermarket. Both of them wearing face masks.
Market place in Kenya. April, 2020. Photo: World Bank / Sambrian Mbaabu

A new International Day with a difficult starting point

One-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally while more than 820 million people in the world continue to go hungry every day.

Cutting food loss and waste reduces poverty and hunger and fights climate change.

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27/09/2020

What UN Needs Is a Cease-Fire Inside Its Own Security Council

Human Wrongs Watch

By Thalif Deen*

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 2020 (IPS)* – With more than 20,000 civilians killed last year in conflicts in 10 countries — including Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen– UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated his call for a “global cease-fire”: a proposal which failed to generate a positive response since he first announced it last March.
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27/09/2020

Racism in America

Human Wrongs Watch

By Martha R. Bireda*

A tool for the maintenance of classism

Racism in America
Racism in America | Image from Wall Street International.

26 September 2020 (Wall Street International)* — America proclaims itself to be the land of ultimate freedom and opportunity. The ability to rise above one’s condition of birth, not inhibited by social class – this is the essence of the American myth of a classless society.

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27/09/2020

UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: 10 Years to Heal the Planet

Human Wrongs Watch

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Photo by UNEP/Florian Fussstetter

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, led by UNEP, FAO and partners covers terrestrial as well as coastal and marine ecosystems.

A global call to action, it will draw together political support, scientific research and financial muscle to massively scale up restoration.

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27/09/2020

The World Failed on All of Its Biodiversity Targets. What Happens Next?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Louisa Casson*

Remember that feeling at school of waiting to get your exam results? The nervous knot in your stomach, the sweaty palms…

Primary Forest in Papua. © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace
Fog on primary forest near the river Digul in southern Papua. © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

Last week, all governments found out how they scored against the targets they set themselves a decade ago to protect nature. 

It was pretty bad. 

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26/09/2020

The Dying Planet Report 2020

Human Wrongs Watch

By Robert Hunziker*

24 September 2020 – Los Angeles, USA (Pressenza)* — The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the Living Planet Report 2020, but the report should really be entitled the Dying Planet Report 2020 because that’s what’s happening in the real world. Not much remains alive.

The Dying Planet Report 2020
Image by Bela Geletneky from Pixabay

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26/09/2020

Nuclear-Armed States Set Record $73bn Spending on Nukes as Pandemic Spreads

Human Wrongs Watch

By the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)*

A new report has found nuclear-armed states spent a record $73 billion on nuclear weapons in 2019, a $7.1 billion increase from 2018 expenditures. The United States, the center of the global coronavirus pandemic, accounted for nearly half of that spending.

As the economies of the US, China, France, and Russia all contract, their nuclear spending is expanding. Supplemental ICAN research shows yearly expenditure on nuclear weapons in the US alone could pay for 300,000 ICU beds; 150,000 nurses; 75,000 doctors; and 35,000 ventilators to address the COVID19 pandemic.

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26/09/2020

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Sculpture "Good Defeats Evil"

Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon. The dragon is created from fragments of Soviet SS-20 and United States Pershing nuclear missiles. PHOTO:UN Photo/Milton Grant

(United Nations)* — Achieving global nuclear disarmament is one of the oldest goals of the United Nations. It was the subject of the General Assembly’s first resolution in 1946, which established the Atomic Energy Commission (dissolved in 1952), with a mandate to make specific proposals for the control of nuclear energy and the elimination of atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction.

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