Showing 101 - 110 of 175
175 results found
Statement prepared for delivery to the Sub-Committee, Committee of Permanent Representatives H.E. Mr. Fernando Coimbra, Chair of the Committee of Permanent Representatives Ambassadors, Excellencies and colleagues…
by Nicoletta Batini (International Monetary Fund), James Lomax (United Nations Environment Programme), and Divya Mehra (World Food Programme) Food systems are essential to economic activity because they provide the…
“I’m used to hearing the sound of laughter every morning as my customers come to buy fish,” says 37-year-old Huon Tim. “But it’s very quiet these days in the village.” For Huon, who runs a small fish and produce…
New climate data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) predicts that the annual mean global temperature is likely to be at least 1.0°C above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900) in each of the coming five…
Haiti is well acquainted with challenge. In any given year, a typical Haitian household will face multiple shocks—which may include hurricanes, floods, disease, death, unemployment or any combination thereof. For…
In their efforts to stave off a second wave of COVID-19, scientists from around the world have turned to a new ally: sewage. In the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain, researchers are poring over samples of…
In this time of crisis, thousands of papers and guidelines have already been published about COVID-19. Most of these consider the important questions of how to respond to the ongoing public health crisis, or how to mitigate the impacts of the…
A new report by UNEP and The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) considers the root causes of the emergence and spread of COVID-19 and other zoonoses. Zoonoses are diseases that originate in animals…
Statement by Inger Andersen, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme Thank you for joining us for the launch of a new report by the UN Environment Programme and the…
Ebola, SARS, Zika, HIV/AIDS, West Nile fever and now COVID-19. These are some of the highest-profile diseases to emerge in the last several decades. And while they emerged in different parts of the world, they have…
Showing 101 - 110 of 175
