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Claudia Caruana Using empirical data gathered from 732 locations, researchers estimated the mortality burdens associated with additional heat exposure resulting from human-induced warming from 1991 to 2018. An international team of researchers has quantified how heat-related deaths are attributabl

Aid , Biodiversity , Education , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development , Water / 06/12/2021

U.N. declares decade of ecosystem restoration to ‘make peace with nature’

Liz Kimbrough United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration launched by U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The goal: to prevent, halt and reverse ecosystem degradation worldwide. The U.N. has declared the coming decade a time for ecosystem restor

Climate , Corruption , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Economy , Education , Gender , Governance , Health , Human Rights , Migration , Monitoring , Refugees , Sustainable Development / 04/08/2021

Governments across the world fail to protect human rights amid a pandemic

The global pandemic has exposed the terrible legacy of deliberately divisive and destructive policies that have perpetuated inequality, discrimination and oppression and paved the way for the devastation wrought by COVID-19, Amnesty International said in its annual report for 2020. The State of the

COVID-19 , Education , Food , Gender , Health , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 03/09/2021

Why tackling malnutrition is key to women’s empowerment

Emma Feutl Kent & Atalanti Moquette Now is the time to commit to women and girl’s nutrition, advocates urge on International Women’s Day. Disruptions to food and health systems because of COVID-19 are causing rates of malnutrition to rise substantially. Experts predict that severe hunger aro

Data & Reports , Education , Featured , Governance , Human Rights , Monitoring , Sustainable Development / 03/04/2021

Internet shutdowns shatter dreams, endanger lives

From Belarus to Bangladesh, authorities in 29 countries shut down or interfered with the internet at least 155 times in 2020. On a day-to-day basis, this prevented millions of people from working, studying, and communicating to their full potential. At its most extreme, this crippled access to

Data & Reports , Economy , Education , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Labour , Science & Technology , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 02/21/2021

Eye health ‘key to SDGs’

Louise Coghlin Vision, quality of life, the economy and development are all so interconnected that eye health should be reframed as a mainstream part of the sustainable development agenda, says a major report on eye care. The report by 73 leading experts from 25 countries warns that without addition

Biodiversity , Business , Cities , Climate , Education , Environment , Featured , Food , Health , Labour , Resources , Science & Technology , Soil , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 02/13/2021

Argentine municipalities embrace agroecology

Jorgelina Hiba A network of municipalities in Argentina is reimagining an agricultural production model based on industrial inputs, encouraging a new relationship between farming, food and nature The global climate crisis has made the debate about the ways food is produced and consumed around the wo

Climate , Economy , Education , Environment , Featured , Governance , Human Rights , SDGs , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 12/06/2020

Chile opens the door for an ‘ecological’ constitution

Francisco Parra Galaz Chile will have a new constitution that could address long-standing concerns, from water management to a complete territorial reorganisation Freirina is a town of only 7,000 inhabitants located in the north of Chile where the imposing Atacama Desert begins, or ends, dependi

Aid , Data & Reports , Education , Food , Monitoring , Science & Technology , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 11/17/2020

Create open data culture to feed hungry world – experts

Fiona Broom The world’s ability to feed its growing — and increasingly hungry — population will depend on a culture of openness in research and data sharing, a debate on the future of agricultural research heard. Making agricultural data accessible is key to accelerating new discoveries

Business , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Economy , Education , Gender , Governance , Health , Human Rights , Labour , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 10/27/2020

No country has achieved gender equality in last 25 years

Less than 50% of working-age women are in the labour market, a figure that has barely changed over the last quarter of a century, according to The World’s Women 2020: Trends and Statistics, a new UN report. Unpaid domestic and care work falls disproportionately on women, restraining their economi

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