January Sustainable Development

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Better business, better world

The Global Goals, that include a socially, not only low-carbon but also environmentally sustainable development, create at least $12 trillion opportunities. A progressive, profit–oriented business gains reputation and drives innovation.

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Source: http://www.un.org/

In 2005 the United Nation wanted to designate 27 January as International Day in commemoration of the Holocaust, against any historical denial of this colossal crime to help people who suffer the consequences of hatred, bigotry, racism, and prejudice.

New approach needed to tackle rising drug prices

Source: http://www.oecd.org/, 16 January

Rising drug prices, the development of high-cost medicines and of precision medicine requires Governments to study new approaches to make treatments more affordable, and the necessary powers to regulate prices and cut inefficient technologies.

2016, l’anno più caldo della storia

Source: http://www.asvis.it/

It is as urgent and decisive as ever to apply rapidly and really the Paris climate agreement. In Italy, if things don’t change is predicted an average temperature increase of 6 degrees. 2016 has been the hottest year ever documented.

Read more:

http://www.wwf.it/?27760

Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2016

Source: http://www.asvis.it/

After the EEA, climate change, related to already constant conditions and extreme wheather events have wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems and on human health and well-being in Europe, and hit especially, and also economically, southern Europe.

Il discorso di Francesco alla “Rome Roundtable” della Global Foundation

Source: http://www.asvis.it/, 15 January

At the roundtable of the Global Foundation, Pope Francis reminded the God-given dignity of the poorest, and that a society that selects and discards people on their productivity produces soul-less machines. Only a “cooperative” globalization can promote a genuine economic and social progress.

This battery ingredient is more often used in a pie than as a power source

by Bruce Gellerman

Source: https://green.harvard.edu/, 10 January

A team of Harvard University has created an organic battery using rhubarb's molecules that store and transfer energy, after evaluating hundreds of thousands of compounds. The usefulness of this invention concerns, in particular, the renewables, that have a power depending on weather conditions.

Diversity “is richness, not a threat”, UN chief Guterres tells forum on combatting anti-Muslim discrimination

Source: http://www.un.org/, 17 January

In this address, Secretary General António Gutierrez stands up against bigotry and hatred to fight every form of discrimination, affirming the value and the richness of the socio-cultural and ethnic diversity, while anti-Muslim hate crimes, anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise.

India’s first GM food crop held up by lawsuit

by Sanjay Kumar

Source: Nature, 18 January

The approval of the first transgenic food crop in India has been delayed because of a law suit launched by anti-GM farming organizations denouncing the unsafety of this controversial technology, that on the other side could solve the food supply problems of the growing country’s population.

Consulta l’articolo:

http://www.nature.com/news/india-s-first-gm-food-crop-held-up-by-lawsuit-1.21303

2017, année de la “dernière chance” pour enrayer la tragédie des migrants

by Enrico Letta

Source: Le Monde, 17 January

The migrants' tragedy is not just an emergency and a problem for the EU, but it is an opportunity that requires structural answers and an active and cohesive political role that would help to overtake the mistrust of its citizens in its institutions.

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Il posizionamento italiano rispetto ai 17 Obiettivi per lo Sviluppo sostenibile delle Nazioni Unite

Source: http://www.asvis.it/, 4 January 2017

The Italian Ministry for the Environment presented a report on the current state of the art in our country compared to the 17 Goals of the 2030 Agenda that defines a general condition of immaturity in most of them, just tempered by some positive marks about food, women, and water.

Putting a human face on climate change.

by Karen Feldscher

Source: https://green.harvard.edu/, 22 December 2016

Climate change is not a remote, abstract problem but it is directly linked to an increase in diseases, like cardiovascular illnesses, epidemics, and malnutrition. Although it is clearly a political problem, individual and household behavior represents 60% of national carbon consumption.

Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneus sea surface temperature records

by Zeke Hausfather, Kevin Cowtan, David C. Clarke, Peter Jacobs, Mark Richardson & Robert Rohde

Source: Science, 4 January

Sea surface temperature is an important indicator of climate and ecosystems changes. Inhomogeneities in the measurement methods, buoy-based or used by different ships, led to underestimating a high trend of warming in recent years.

Steps to overcome the North-South divide in research relevant to climate change policy and practice

by M. Blicharska, R. J. Smithers, M. Kuchler , G. K. Agrawal, J. M. Gutiérrez , A. Hassanali, S. Huq , S. H. Koller, S. Marjit , H. M. Mshinda, H. H. Masjuki, N. W. Solomons, J. Van Staden & G. Mikusińsk.

Source: Nature Climate Change, 4 January

Science is not plainly neutral, in particular, if linked with social and political issues, and the fact that most of the research about climate change is produced in the Northern side of the world is a matter of credibility and legitimacy of this science and determines the degree of participation of Southern countries to global agreements.

Fao’s work on climate change – United Nations Climate Change Conference 2016

Source: http://www.fao.org/

800 millions of people in the world are chronically hungry. Climate change puts under threat food production systems. The Goal of eradicating hunger includes climate justice, a human-centered approach, especially in vulnerability conditions, a sustainable and resilient agriculture.

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http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6273e.pdf

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