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    Climate Change Creates a ‘Cocktail’ of Serious Health Hazards For 70 Per Cent Of Workers Worldwide

    The health consequences of climate change can include cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory illnesses, kidney dysfunction and mental health conditions. A “staggering” number of workers, amounting...
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    Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action

    Companies’ emissions reduction targets should not be the sole measure of corporate climate ambition, according to a new perspective paper from the Imperial College. By Hayley...
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    Sixth Edition of International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Begins In New Delhi

    Prime Minister Modi drew attention to the impact of natural disasters on humans and mentioned earthquakes destroying houses making thousands of people homeless and...
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    A Global Village for a Global Plastics Instrument

    The apparent convenience that this throw-away society brings has wrought environmental catastrophe on our ecosystems. It floods our drains. Blocks our rivers. Chokes our...
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    Critical Negotiations on Plastic Pollution Begin Tuesday, in Ottawa

    The world has a once-in-a-generation chance to profoundly change humanity’s relationship with plastic. That is the message from officials ahead of “pivotal” talks next...
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    Food Security

    Conflict’s Long Shadow Has a Name: It’s Hunger

    Hunger can be both a trigger and a consequence of conflict; limited resources can drive disputes for food and the means to produce it,...
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    Gaza’s Science and Tech Experts Targeted in Assaults

    IT experts, computer engineers, scientists targeted in ongoing attacks in Gaza. The rebuilding of the infrastructure ‘could take more than 20 years’. Amr Rageh Palestinian academics...
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    How Social Forestry and Private Investments Can Save Indonesia’s Forests

    Throughout Indonesia, traditional customs like Ri’i that belong to the country’s myriad ethnic groups and local communities are deeply intertwined in ongoing efforts to...
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    Human Traffickers and Smugglers Now Adept at Exploiting Digital Platforms

    Traffickers use fake online job advertisements and social media posts to deceive vulnerable individuals into forced labour, sexual exploitation, and other abuses.
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    Pakistan to Launch Rs 52 Billion Green Sukuk Bonds for Clean Energy Projects

    This is the first time the federal government will directly tap capital markets through a sustainable finance mechanism.
    Asia Pacific

    “Engines of Opportunity, Centres of Vulnerability” – UN Forum Calls for Urgent Action to Tackle Growing Challenges in Asian and Pacific Cities 

    Deliberations at the session are informed by findings of a new ESCAP study Urban Transformation in Asia and the Pacific: From Growth to Resilience which offers policy solutions and showcases cities in the region that are already pioneering change.

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    Human Traffickers and Smugglers Now Adept at Exploiting Digital Platforms

    Traffickers use fake online job advertisements and social media posts to deceive vulnerable individuals into forced labour, sexual exploitation, and other abuses.
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    Pakistan to Launch Rs 52 Billion Green Sukuk Bonds for Clean Energy Projects

    This is the first time the federal government will directly tap capital markets through a sustainable finance mechanism.
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