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ClimateUN calls for global State of Climate Emergency after a decade of hottest temperatures; rich countries must lead the way to help poorer ones
New York, December 12 – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sounded the alarm as carbon dioxide, the harmful gas heating up the planet, has reached its ...
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News$20.6 Billion to Help Women, Newborns, Young Children and Adolescents
Funding secured to recover health and social services lost to COVID-19 Pledges (please see detailed information below): * Afghanistan – $176.6 million * India – ...
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HealthCovid-19 provides the right incentive to quit smoking but millions of smokers have no access to support services, WHO said.
Geneve/New York, December 8 – The World Health Organization has launched a global campaign to support over 100 million tobacco users who have tried to ...
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EcologyHow Many Fish in the Sea?
New tool will help census oceans from surface to seafloor, monitor fish, track shifting marine life due to climate change, around coral reefs, aquaculture or ...
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NewsWorld Economic Forum announces Davos Agenda for January 2021 virtual meeting
Geneva/New York, November 23 – The World Economic Forum made public its upcoming Davos Agenda under the theme “2021 is a crucial year to rebuild ...
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ClimateOil and gas firms commit to report and reduce methane emissions to help solve climate crisis
Governments, UN, civil society, companies collaborate on robust new tracking and disclosure system Nairobi/Brussels/New York, 23 November – In a move that will help tackle ...
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NewsChefs, farmers, government and business leaders to call for new food systems in post Covid-19 and to feed 10 billion people by 2050
Geneva/New York, November 18 – The existing food systems, battered by coronavirus that caused widespread famine in poor countries, need fundamental change in order to ...
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HealthNewsHealth authorities fear increase in measles cases as pandemic disrupted vaccine campaigns against measles, which killed 207,500 people in 2019
New York/Geneva/Atlanta, November 12 – Measles claimed 207,500 lives in 2019, prompting the WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn ...
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HealthNewsUPDATE: Pfizer and Moderna lead drug makers with over 90-per-cent effective vaccines; rich nations rush to buy massive amount of doses and prepare distribution
New York, November 16 – The US drug maker Moderna has joined the team Pfizer-BioNTech to claim that their Covid-19 vaccines have successfully passed trials ...
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HealthNewsCovid-19 has infected 50 million people, killed over 1.2 million but its long-term effects are unknown, WHO says
Geneva/New York, November 9 – The World Health Organization said only “science, solutions and solidarity” can help the world fight Covid-19, which has already infected ...
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NewsUNESCO: End impunity for crimes against journalists; 1,200 journalists killed since 2006 while reporting news; others tortured and imprisoned
Paris/New York, November 2 – Close to 1,200 journalists were killed between 2006 and 2019 while they carried out the task of reporting news to ...
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HealthNewsEscaping the ‘Era of Pandemics’: Experts Warn Worse Crises to Come, Options Offered to Reduce Risk
Highlights: Intergovernmental Council on Pandemic Prevention; Addressing risk drivers including deforestation & wildlife trade; Tax high pandemic-risk activities 540,000 – 850,000 unknown viruses in nature could still infect ...
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