January 2019 Sustainable Development
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Work for a brighter future
By the International Labour Organization
Source: http://asvis.it/
The goal of decent and sustainable work requires an approach which goes beyond making the human capital fit to the new digital economy, but intends to harness the technology for a broader human-centered development and representation of workers, and the improvement of living standards.
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Climate Change Performance Index 2019
By Jan Burck, Ursula Hagen, Franziska Marten, Niklas Höhne , Christoph Bals
Source: German Watch
Nearly everywhere is to notice a lack of political will determined towards the Paris Goal, even though the recent technological development and the drop of the costs of renewables would make it easier to achieve. Sweden and Morocco are the best performers, but no country presents good performances in all categories.
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https://www.climate-change-performance-index.org/sites/default/files/documents/ccpi2019_results.pdf
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Source: http://www.undp.org
Climate change is the most disruptive risk factor for the efforts displayed in these decades to reduce hunger and disparities and that have in fact achieved an impressive growth in Africa in the last decades. Climate change adaptation is the result of transformational thinking and bold actions in all the topics of the 2030 Agenda.
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World Economic Situation Prospects
Source: https://www.un.org
International cooperation and governance are crucial for ensuring well-functioning markets, resolving disagreements and guaranteeing stability in presence of trade tensions and macroeconomic global imbalances. Strenghtening multilateralism is crucial for advancing sustainable development.
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https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/WESP2019_BOOK-web.pdf
The Global Risks Report 2019
Source: http://www3.weforum.org
A new era of state-centered politics , projected in the own domestical interests, sees geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions hardening. In this context, global challenges like environment protection and the human side of global risks shift in the second line.
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http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2019.pdf
La dieta perfecta para salvar el planeta y la salud del ser humano
By M. Planelles & L. Delle Femmine
Source: El País, 17 January
A panel of experts by the journal Lancet has elaborated a model of healthy nutrition, good for both humans and the environment, which requires a farming revolution and a deep change in our habits, to be realized with the collaboration of all involved actors, including the consumers.
Global Economic Prospects
Source: World Bank Group
This report outlooks the global progress of the emerging markets and developing economies, highlighting the effects of this precarious economic juncture, given by hot trade tensions, financial stress and risks, that don’t contribute to a macroeconomic stability and hence to a sustained a sustainable growth.
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Ready to help?
Source: oecd.org
This report is a tool for preparing the host countries to manage the migrants flows, showing that the lack of a plan to cope with the emergency and the integration sharps the perception of the problem, triggering a political crisis which the humanitarian situation in itself would not justify.
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https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/ready-to-help_9789264311312-en#page13
Emissions Gap Report
Source: UN Environment
Current national committments to comply with Paris Agreement on climate change are very far from its goal to stay under 2°C temperature increase , and though it is still possible, in fact, the global CO2 emissions show that the perspective of exceeding 1.5°C global warming is more realistic than the efforts deployed on global scale.
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https://www.unenvironment.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2018
How much can forest fight climate change?
By Gabriel Popkin
Source: Nature, 15 January
Some scientists argue that expanding forests is not the solution to climate change, as trees in fact produce chemical emissions too. While more data from long-term studies are needed to clear this aspect, nobody can doubt that trees are generally good for all us and the environment.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00122-z
UNHCR’s new 2 Billion Kilometres to Safety campaign invites the public to step in solidarity with refugees
Source: http://www.un.org
This campaign intends to make justice of the real efforts made and the dangers experienced by the people forced to flee violence and persecution, inviting the public to acts of kindness and solidarity in an era full of misconceptions about migrants.
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Weathering change
Source: https://green.harvard.edu/
In this project and anthology published by Harvard’s Office for Sustainability, Humanities help us to express in the most natural way our attitude towards climate change. Our responsibility is a question we have to ask together , while from Nature we learn resilience .
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https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/09/weathering-change-brings-humanities-to-science/
Science and the Future of Cities
Source: Nature Sustainability
The urbanization challenges raised by the rapidly expanding urban areas need to develop an adequate urban science to harness cities’ capacity for innovation through a science-policy collaboration at the local level and a tailored multilateral system to implement the 2030 Agenda.
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https://www.nature.com/documents/Science_and_the_future_of_cites.pdf
Settling in 2018
Source: oecd.org
The social and economic outcomes of immigrants, so different from the native-born offspring population , raised and educated in the host countries, show the importance of education in immigrant integration. The indicators developed at international level work better for the native born than for the foreign born population.
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Greenland has yet another methane leak
By Chelsea Harvey
Source: Scientific American, 3 January
After three studies conducted on glaciers located in Greenland and Iceland, thawing ice is a potential source of methane. This reasearch shows new and unexpected aspects of climate change and its concrete impact on the whole Earth system.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/greenland-has-yet-another-methane-leak/
Globalization 4.0-What it means and how it could benefit us all
By Klaus Schwab
Source: World Economic Forum, 5 November 2018
What is at stake in the Globalization 4.0 is the improvement of the human condition, through an economic growth directed to the public good and the roots of inequalities, and propped up by global norms, conventions and policies able to address the change given by the dematerialisation of the production.
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UNDP Strategic Plan, 2018 -2021
Source: http://www.un.org
The digital era marks a great progress on many fronts of Sustainable Development. Development is a goal in itself, which involves the positive role of the new technologies as long as we maintain firm the principle of living no one behind, at the heart of this Strategic Plan.
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