The world’s mega trends of land-use and landscape development are discussed, which are urbanization and land-use intensification, particularly considering their negative consequences for the ecological as well as the socio-economic environment. Trade-offs of land-use intensification such as the loss ...
We also calculated the spatial and temporal evolutionary trends in the occurrence of future heatwaves to calculate excess mortality. There is no consistent definition for heatwave worldwide because people may have acclimatized to their local climatic zones and different studies have applied various tempe...
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Mobilizing the investment needed to complete the net-zero transition will require broad public backing and participation. Given that people living in poverty are less likely to support climate action, simultaneous efforts to improve living standards are essential, write Michael Spence, Anu Madgavkar, ...
global director for Governance Global Practice in the Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Practice Group at the World Bank, and Eliot Minchenberg, Director of Office and UNESCO Representative to the United Nations in New York. The study is part of UNESCO’s “World Trends in Freedom of...
The latter group effectively faces the stark choice between risking to die from the virus or from poverty. On April 11, the deputy health minister said that one-fourth of those infected with the virus had contracted it in public transport. Iran’s already ailing economy is now further hit ...
How do we boost productivity to accommodate shifting demographic trends that may otherwise cut economic growth in half?[1] How do we find cures for longstanding diseases and tackle a projected 70 percent rise in cancer rates over the next two decades?[2] A new wave of technologies, built ...
The remarks by Xi, with a thorough analysis of the constraints facing world economic recovery and a good grasp of the global development trends and economic rules, came in time for a worldwide sustainable development agenda challenged by COVID-19, a weak world economy, poverty and turmoils. ...
One of the vital parts of “Countdown to 2030” aims to support the monitoring and measurement of children’s health [9]. Currently, children still face unhealthy diets and poverty [10,11,12]. Under these circumstances, additional attention should be given to the disease burden and health ...
Sub-Saharan Africa is least likely to meet the Sustainable Development Goal for safely-managed drinking water. Africa is estimated to require at least three times more annual investment, as a share of the gross regional product, than any other region to