18/06/2020
(UN News)* — Global displacement reached a staggering 79.5 million people last year – almost double the number of people in crisis registered a decade ago – owing to war, violence, persecution and other emergencies, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Thursday [18 June 2020].
© UNHCR/Vincent Tremeau | A mother takes care of her baby inside a gymnasium that has been turned into a refugee settlement in Pintolandia, Brazil.
Highlighting that this number now represents one in every 97 people on the planet, UNHCR’s latest Global Trends report shows that 8.7 million people were newly displaced in 2019 alone, with developing countries worst hit.
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17/06/2020
© UNICEF/Tanya Bindra | A young girl cooks in a rural village in Ethiopia, where the land has been affected by recurrent droughts.
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“Through international action and solidarity, we can scale up land restoration and nature-based solutions for climate action and the benefit of future generations. By doing so, we can deliver on the
Sustainable Development Goalsand leave no one behind”, he said.
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17/06/2020
17 June 2020 (United Nations)* — Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. It is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations. Desertification does not refer to the expansion of existing deserts. It occurs because dryland ecosystems, which cover over one third of the world’s land area, are extremely vulnerable to overexploitation and inappropriate land use. Poverty, political instability, deforestation, overgrazing and bad irrigation practices can all undermine the productivity of the land.
An extra 593 million hectares of agricultural land, an area nearly twice the size of India, will be required by 2050 over 2010 levels. Photo: Avijit Ghosh – Future Without Green | (India)/ UNCDD Photo contest 2018.
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17/06/2020
Paris/Nairobi, 16 June 2020 (UN Environment)* – Growth in renewable power has been impressive over the past five years. But too little is happening in heating, cooling and transport. Overall, global hunger for energy keeps increasing and eats up progress, according to REN21’s Renewables 2020 Global Status Report (GSR), released today. The journey towards climate disaster continues, unless we make an immediate switch to efficient and renewable energy in all sectors in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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17/06/2020
Gastronomy is a cultural expression of the world’s natural and cultural diversity. On June 18, we celebrate Sustainable Gastronomy Day and acknowledge that everyone plays a role in making sustainable choices for healthy diets and a food-secure future. @ Chompoo Suriyo/ shutterstock.com
18 June 2020 (FAO)* — Every year, June 18 marks Sustainable Gastronomy Day. This begs the questions: 1) What in the world is sustainable gastronomy? 2) Why is it important enough to have a “day” dedicated to it? and 3) Even so, why should I care?
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17/06/2020
(UN News)* — Trade in many developing countries is expected to take a “nosedive” in the second quarter of 2020, owing to the unprecedented effects of the coronavirus pandemic, UN economists said on Tuesday [16 June 2020].
UN News/Daniel Dickinson | Many container ports, like this one in New York City, have seen a decline in activity as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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In a new
report from UN trade and development body,
UNCTAD, it highlighted data showing that the value of international trade in goods has declined by about five per cent between January and March.
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Worrying as that is, commerce is expected to plummet further – by a staggering 27 per cent – from April to the end of June.
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17/06/2020
WFP/Karolyn Ureña | A woman in the Dominican Republic receives food from a Government soup kitchen set up to help fight hunger triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The study by the UN’s office for the region, known by the acronym ECLAC, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), proposes 10 measures to ward against increased hunger, including through an “anti-hunger grant” to support vulnerable people as well as food producers.
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16/06/2020
WASHINGTON (WORLD BANK)* — Global remittances are projected to decline sharply by about 20 percent in 2020 due to the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown.
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The projected fall, which would be the sharpest decline in recent history, is largely due to a fall in the wages and employment of migrant workers, who tend to be more vulnerable to loss of employment and wages during an economic crisis in a host country.
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16/06/2020
16 June 2020 (United Nations)* — This year, the International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) on 16 June 2020 is observed under unprecedented conditions. COVID-19 has changed the world. Millions of migrant workers are losing their jobs, and many remittance families are suddenly pushed below the poverty line – bringing to a halt, efforts to reach their own individual SDGs.
Over 200 million migrant workers sent US$554 billion back to their families in remittance-reliant countries in 2019. Photo: © IFAD
Remittance families are typically both resourceful and resilient in the face of difficult circumstances and changing conditions. But COVID-19 is disrupting an entire system that directly involves 200 million migrant workers, half of them women, around the world and their 800 million family members back home.
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