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A new investigation from anti-corruption NGO Global Witness has uncovered how global financial institutions – including the likes of Blackrock and the Norway Government Pension Fund – are backing Malaysian banks linked to a hugely destructive logging project in Papua New Guinea, that a

Climate , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Energy , Environment , Sustainable Development / 05/14/2020

COVID-19 can compromise the transition to clean energy: WEF

The coronavirus pandemic risks cancelling out recent progress in transitioning to clean energy, with unprecedented falls in demand, price volatility and pressure to quickly mitigate socioeconomic costs placing the near-term trajectory of the transition in doubt. World Economic Forum releases study m

COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Food / 04/15/2020

As coronavirus outbreak exposes faultlines in long supply chains, are locally self-sufficient economies the way forward?

I donned my mask, and bravely set forth to the local grocery shop and vegetable and fish market. The formerly boring chore was now charged with adventure and risk. Would the police whack me for being out on my errands? Would the shops be open? Would they be stocked? Most importantly, would the dratt

Biodiversity , Climate , Data & Reports , Sustainable Development / 04/14/2020

Climate change could cause abrupt biodiversity losses this century

Christopher Trisos, University of Cape Town and Alex Pigot, UCL The impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems are already evident. Poleward shifts in the geographic distributions of species, catastrophic forest fires and mass bleaching of coral reefs all bear the fingerprints of climate ch

COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Featured , Health , Migration , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 04/12/2020

Rich countries ‘raiding’ developing world’s nurses

Fiona Broom Rich countries are ‘raiding’ nurses from their lower-income neighbours, a global nursing organisation says, leaving parts of the global South with less than 900 nurses for every one million people. The first-ever State of the World’s Nursing report, timed to coincide with World Hea

Business , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Economy , Governance , Human Rights , Labour , Sustainable Development / 04/09/2020

Half a billion people could be pushed into poverty by coronavirus

Oxfam’s new report ‘Dignity Not Destitution’ presents fresh analysis which suggests between six and eight percent of the global population could be forced into poverty as governments shut down entire economies to manage the spread of the virus. The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemi

Biodiversity , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Disasters , Environment , Food , Forests , Health , Sustainable Development / 04/07/2020

Public Calls for Governments to Close Southeast Asia’s Wildlife Markets

A WWF public survey in South East Asian countries show that an overwhelming majority support closure of wildlife markets which are mostly illegal This World Health Day, as the world grapples with the worst public health emergency in recent memory, over 90 percent of respondents surveyed in Southeast

Biodiversity , Climate , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Environment , Forests , Health , Sustainable Development / 03/27/2020

DESTRUCTION OF HABITAT AND LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY ARE CREATING THE PERFECT CONDITIONS FOR DISEASES LIKE COVID-19 TO EMERGE

John Vidal As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the novel coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics Mayibout 2 is not a healthy place. The 150 or so people who live in the village, which sits on the south bank of the Ivindo River, deep in the great Minkebe fores

Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/17/2020

Healthy and free-flowing rivers are essential to meet the SDGs

This month two global news about rivers attracted my attention. One, the Colorado River, for dying a slow death due to climate change; and two, 25 Cuban rivers for showing signs of good health due to years of sustainable farming. At a time when the world is facing unprecedented water cri

Aid , Data & Reports , Food , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 03/11/2020

43 million people face acute hunger: FAO

Acute food insecurity hotspots need urgent attention, with FAO estimating 900 million dollars are required urgently for supporting livelihoods While global attention has focused on the swarms of Desert Locusts attacking crops in East Africa, a number of other countries and regions are also confronti

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