Read the articles selected in March 2019
Greta Thunberg
By Sarah Diffalah
Source: L’Obs, 14 March
This girl, who has become the symbol of the future also thanks to her syndrome, so emblematic for the new generations, shows with her personal life how climate change is not something which concerns the others, but is deeply intertwined with our own existence.
The state of world’s biodiversity for food and agriculture
Source: http://www.fao.org
This report delivers information about the management of biodiversity, with the intent to strengthen the knowledge of its importance in echosystems and in the support to food safety and nutrition, and to translate this knowledge in a wide action, able to reach the consumers’ preferences and influence markets.
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http://www.fao.org/3/CA3129EN/CA3129EN.pdf
Women, Business and the Law
Source: https://www.worldbank.org/
Women don’t have the same rights of men when they take decisions that affect their career, their economic condition or the balance between private life, family and work. This report tells the progress made in 10 years by national legislations toward the parity of working women.
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https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/31327/WBL2019.pdf
Groundswell. Preparing for internal climate migration
Source: https://www.worldbank.org/
This report shows the human face of the migration issue, delivering a set of indicators that help countries understand the interactions among climate impacts, ecosystems, livelihoods and mobility and integrate climate migration into national development plans.
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file:///C:/Users/Roberta%20Capo/Downloads/WBG_ClimateChange_Final.pdf
Inclusive Wealth Report
Source: UN Environment
A country’s inclusive wealth is the social value of all its capital assets, which assesses if a country’s economic growth is sustainable, beyond the 2030 end line, how the natural capital is exploited and how the wealth is shared among the population.
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WIPO Technology Trends: Artificial Intelligence
Source: https://www.wipo.int
This report intend to reply to the concerns about the nature and the impact of the AI with a set of data and facts useful for a correct understanding of this revolution happened in our daily life and which is crucial to harness all its benefits.
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https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_1055.pdf
Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
Source: United Nations Uman Rights
This is a historical international treaty, which has brought to light the female half of the humanity with the same dignity, worth and rights of the male one. The enphasis on the women’s civil rights highlights the link between female discrimination and procreation.
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https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CEDAW.aspx
General discussion on trafficking of women and girls in the context of global migration
Source: un.org
This paper frames women’s traffic in the context of the violation of human rights and of violence as the result of the combinated expressions of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women(DEVAW) and the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
Integrating a Gender Perspective into Human Rights Investigations
Source: https://www.ohchr.org
The OHCHR in its mandate to contribute to the realization of all human rights for all people has the task to investigate and report all discriminations based on sex. The Gender Equality Policy delivers a gender perspective through the whole spectrum of human rights.
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https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/IntegratingGenderPerspective_EN.pdf
Telling SAGA: improving measurement and policies for gender equality in science, technology and innovation
Source: Unesco
The Stem and Gender Advancement (SAGA) is a project developed by Unesco to enhance the advancement of science through increased women’s participation in research. The gender dimension is an important aspect of sustainable development and is expression of a human right.
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https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000266102
Gender-inclusive language
Source: http://www.un.org
These Guidelines have been widespread by the United Nations among their staff to get them communicate in a gender-inclusive manner which means harnessing the properties of language to make women visible and raise awareness of gender discrimination.
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http://www.un.org/en/gender-inclusive-language/guidelines.shtml
Global Nutrition Report
Source: asvis.it
More and better data are crucial to know and face a plague which still afflicts the world, not only the poorer countries, in spite of the progresses made. The fight to malnutrition is an SDG of the outmost importance, for its drammatical and trasversal consequences.
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https://globalnutritionreport.org/reports/global-nutrition-report-2018/executive-summary/
Europe’s approach to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Source : the European Parliament
The EU shows an ambitious approach to sustainable development. But it is equally clear the need to implement the coordination between the different levels of administration, so that, in the light of the Agenda 2030, the economic aspect doesn’t dominate the environmental and social dimensions.
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http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2019/603473/EXPO_STU(2019)603473_EN.pdf
Financing Climate Futures
Source: oecd.org
Infrastructures are the network of the systemic change required for a clean future. Innovation, collaboration of public and private sectors, international cooperation, governative incentives, a resilient finance and stronger local powers are in the agenda for a clean and resilient future.
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https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/financing-climate-futures_9789264308114-en#page1
Cloud’s cooling effect could vanish in a warmer world
By Emiliano Rodríguez
Source: Nature, 25 February
After a new study, greenhouse gases could break the clouds, whose presence cools the temperature in broad areas of the globe. Although it is only about abstract forecasts, the study intends to show the unespected and potentially catastrophic consequences of pollution.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00685-x
Scientist must speak up for the Green New Deal
By Jewel Lipps et al.
Source: Scientific American, 25 January
The Green New Deal is a resolution underwritten by a group of scientists and adopted by both Chambers of the Congress in the United States. It intends to put the climate change at the center of the political discourse with its social and economical implications.
Read more:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-must-speak-up-for-the-green-new-deal/