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With the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration underway, review finds successes and many challenges ahead to restore Africa’s degraded lands and improve livelihoods The first ever stocktake of restoring Africa’s forests and landscapes, launched during Africa Climate Week, shows that more needs to b

Aid , Data & Reports , Governance , Monitoring , Sustainable Development / 09/26/2021

Aid providers: More puzzle pieces, including unexpected outcomes; ours is not the whole picture

Jindra Cekan Donor evaluations tend to ignore unexpected results beyond the usual set outcomes; this being reconfirmed in a Dutch study of 80% #foreignaid When we did our first ex-post evaluation/ delayed final evaluation in 2006 in Niger for Lutheran World Relief (LWR) funded by the

Aid , Climate , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Governance , Human Rights , Migration , Resources , Sustainable Development / 09/21/2021

A shortfall of $75 billion expected over a period of six-years affecting the most vulnerable nations

Wealthy nations are expected to fall up to $75 billion short of fulfilling their long-standing pledge to mobilize $100 billion each year from 2020 to 2025 to help the most vulnerable countries adapt to the dangerous effects of climate change and reduce their emissions, according to estimates by Oxfa

Climate , Data & Reports , Disasters , Environment , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/19/2021

Droughts and late monsoon floods batter South Asia

Joydeep Gupta, Ramesh Bhushal Intensifying climate change means that opposite disasters are manifesting at the same time across the region, making emergency responses harder than ever As many parts of India, Nepal and Bangladesh face floods, drought continues to affect large swathes of Pakistan

Biodiversity , Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Food , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/15/2021

2.6 Million Acres of Grassland Lost in North American Great Plains in One Year

Across the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains, approximately 2.6 million acres of intact grassland – an area larger than Yellowstone National Park – were plowed up in 2019 to make room for row-crop production, according to World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) 2021 Plowprint Report. The new findings repres

Data & Reports , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/08/2021

Sex for water: Humanity’s new low in Libyan refugee centres

This July, as the world was preparing to celebrate eleven years of ‘Human Right to Water’- recognized by the UN – an investigation into detention camps in Libya made some shocking revelations that would shame the civilized world. Refugees and migrants are being forced to trade sex fo

Aid , Business , Climate , Data & Reports , Economy , Energy , Environment , Governance , Health , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/07/2021

EU complicit in colossal, lawless air pollution from Balkan coal plants

Around 19,000 people are estimated to have died over the past three years as a result of air pollution from Western Balkan coal-fired power plants, according to a report released by CEE Bankwatch Network and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. The report, Comply or Close, launched to

Business , Climate , Data & Reports , Energy , Environment , Forests , Health , Human Rights , Sustainable Development , Transport , Water / 09/03/2021

Report Reveals Indigenous Resistance Disrupts Quarter of US and Canadian Emissions

JESSICA CORBETT The numbers don’t lie. Indigenous peoples have long led the fight to protect Mother Earth and the only way forward is to center Indigenous knowledge and keep fossil fuels in the ground Indigenous resistance to fossil fuel projects in the United States and Canada over a rec

Aid , Biodiversity , Business , Data & Reports , Economy , Environment , Forests , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 08/29/2021

With USD 2.3 billion to spend, this is how public development banks can help biodiversity

Augusta Dwyer The world’s seven largest development banks, most of them multilaterals, own about half of the Public Development Banks (PBD) sector’s entire global assets and the most prominent of these financial institutions have also made sustainability commitments. It’s not just money that b

Climate , Data & Reports , Energy , Environment , Health , Opinions , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 08/28/2021

The carbon footprint of TB treatment

Pranay Lal The energy required to produce, transport and dispose of diagnostic reagents and supplies (e.g., X-ray films or PPE), or antibiotics for treatment is a significant contributor to carbon footprint. In this issue of Public Health Action, Correspondence by Harries et al.1 highlights the impo

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