October Sustainable Development

Read the articles selected in October 2016

Why world leaders are meeting to discuss hydrofluorocarbons

Source: The Economist, 9 October

After the success of the Montreal Protocol in reducing the ozone layer above Antarctica, a new step has to be taken in order to chop 0.5°C from the average global temperatures by 2100. The Montreal Protocol has to be extended to ban also hydrofluorocarbons, but rich countries are required to act faster than poorer ones.

Nations agree to Kigali Amendment: largest near-term temperature reduction from single agreement

Source: http://www.asvis.it/, 17 October

In Kigali, Ruanda, the Parties of Montreal Protocol have implemented the most useful tool against the warming of our planet with the HFC Amendment that is a victory for the ambient and the living beings, but also for the business committed to delivering refrigerants with a low ambient impact.

Identificazione migranti scomparsi: verso un sistema informativo comune

Source: http://www.interno.gov.it/, 20 June

The Italian Ministry of Interior has instituted an office for the migrants disappeared along with the journey to our territory. It takes care of giving an identity and a name to the corps, and of researching missing people, helping the families looking for information. This initiative has been made possible also thanks to Italian universities.

What is Habitat III?

Source: http://citiscope.org/

In Quito, Ecuador, on 17-20 October has taken place Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, with the aim to set a new global strategy around urbanization and its problems like poverty, environmental degradation, climate change.

Exposed: the climate fallacy of 2100

by Robert Wilder

Source: Scientific American, 19 October

Although the Paris climate accord and the Montreal Protocol are very important results in the path towards a Sustainable Development, they are only an initial step, before it is too late. We need to call things with their real name, and take a real action to progress to a 1.5°C target.

World Food Day highlights that climate is changing and that food and agriculture must too

Source: http://www.fao.org/, 14 October

The World Food Day 2016 highlights that to feed the more and more increasing world population it is essential to enhance agriculture in a sustainable way, reducing loss and waste. This is how to address the problems of inequality and injustice, a crucial issue of international agenda, as stressed Prime Minister Renzi.

Politiche per il pianeta

Source: L’Osservatore Romano, 14 October

In his message broadcasted for the Food World Day, the Pope has invited to preserve the memory of “the wisdom in rural communities”, the seasons’ cycles, the animal e vegetable variety, that they think to can do without with daft production techniques.

International Day of the Girl Child

Source: http://www.unwomen.org/

On 11 October has been celebrated the International Day of the Girl Child, focused to highlight how the engagement and investing in their development and education is proportional to a sustainable development, as the 2030 Agenda does have conceived it. In this, it is essential to fight child marriage.

Gender Review 2016

Source: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/

While the 2030 Agenda SDG4 calls for universal completion of upper secondary school by 2030, after the current trends, only 70% of children in poor countries will complete primary school and only 14% will complete secondary education. But without education for all the world has no future.

La condizione delle bambine e delle ragazze nel mondo

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

A Terre des Hommes Report testifies the global condition of girls and women, the privileged target of violence and abuses, especially in extreme situations, an object of exploitation, also domestic, in many cultures and latitudes, but put on the center of the 2030 Agenda Goals.

Climate change, natural disasters and community resiliency: research roundup

Source: https://green.harvard.edu

With rising oceans and heat temperatures, natural disasters are going to be more and more regular. While efforts are made to reduce causes and consequences of climate change, politics is expected to give responses, and when extreme events occur voters react.

Paris climate deal to take effect as EU ratifies accord

by Quirin Schiermeier

Source: Nature, 4 October

After the European Parliament vote on 4 October to ratify the Paris Climate Deal, the agreement has to be ratified separately by each European state, but since not every Member State is ratifying it rapidly, it will take place anyway counting the bloc’s entire share of global emissions.

Governo approva il ddl su ratifica di Cop21, giudizio positivo di ASVIS

by Carlo Maria Martino

Source: http://www.asvis.it/, 5 October

The Italian Government, after the Paris Climate Deal ratification by the European Council, has approved its ratification and execution bill, assigning 150 million euro to a “Green Climate Fund” by 2018, and 50 immediately, for the commitment made with the agreement.

Great news for rhinos, pangolins, parrots, sharks and chambered nautilus

by John R. Platt

Source: Scientific American, 5 October

This week has taken place in Johannesburg the Convention on international trade in endangered species, enacting to ban or strictly limit cross-border sales of extinguishing animals. A special protection has been accorded to pangolins, the most trafficked animals on the planet.

Mental health included in the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Source: http://www.who.int/

The 2030 Agenda includes the human right to prevention and treatment of mental and substance abuses disorders, that can enter in this way in the development plans of the countries. The World Mental Health Day reminds that millions of people need help.

The green light

Source: The Economist, 8 October

The Green Climate Fund is a UN initiative to help developing countries to face climate change, whose strongest impact they have to bear, without having caused it. But GCF is under pressure because more attention should be paid to local contexts.

L’Agenda 2030 e gli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile

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

Asvis presents the first report on the Italian progress towards the 2030 Agenda, denouncing a backwardness state and proposing to enunciate the Sustainable Development in the Italian Constitution and to adopt an educational national plan for Sustainability.

La Sostenibilità secondo la Chiesa, il Cardinale Ravasi: “Una dimensione etica per l’economia”

by Luigi Ferrata

Source : http://www.asvis.it/, 23 September

The Italian Embassy of the Holy See has hosted a seminar on a “ new, inclusive economic paradigm”, that concerns both the Christian vision and the Agenda 2030 SDGs, overtaking the socio-economic disparities that austerity politics seem to emphasize.

Earth’s CO2 passess the 400 PPM threshold-maybe permanently

by Brian Kahn

Source: Scientific American, 27 September

This year September, a time which usually registers the carbon dioxide minimum after the summer thriving of plants, passed the 440 parts per million mark, which is sign that at least in our lifetimes this threshold will never be abated, and it will very difficult to avoid 2° of warming, as foreseen in Paris climate agreement.

Global Forum on environment and economic growth

Source: https://www.oecd.org

On 24-25 October 2016 will be held in Paris the OECD Global Forum “Towards quantifying the links between environment and economic growth”, to find toolkits to assess the economic benefits of environmental policies, since environmental degradation affects economic growth.

Hunger has no religion

Source: http://www.wfp.org/

The UN General Assembly High -Level Week has hosted an event which highlighted the role of communities of faith in alleviating hunger since every religion requires that we feed the hungry, and in accelerating progress toward the SDG Zero Hunger, launched by Ban-Ki-Moon.

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