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One year on, #ElSalvador 's Bitcoin experiment has proven a spectacular failure via @ConversationEDU

RT @HEBobiwine: Dictators are so predictable! Gen. Museveni describes the EU Parliament as INSUFFERABLE, SHALLOW, IGNORANT, EGOCENTRIC, and some of its members as young girls who are trying to lecture him! Simply because they called him out on human rights violations related to the Oil Pipeline!

Over 130 million actions in at least 190 countries and territories have already been registered, making this the largest Global Week to #Act4SDGs mobilization ever, leaving little doubt about the scale and potential for positive collective action. #ff @SDGaction @SDGActionZone

🏆 On 27 Sep, the UN #SDGAwards unveil the WINNERS of 2022, the most impactful #SDGs initiatives & individuals from around the world. Join an evening with inspiring speakers & musical performances – LIVE at 17:30 CET. @SDGaction.

🏆 On 27 Sep, the UN #SDGAwards unveil the WINNERS of 2022, the most impactful #SDGs initiatives & individuals from around the world. Join an evening with inspiring speakers & musical performances – LIVE at 17:30 CET. @SDGaction.

UPCOMING: #jobs4dev Jobs and Development Conference 2022: The Challenge of Creating Better Jobs in Developing Countries. December 14-15, 2022

UPCOMING: #jobs4dev Jobs and Development Conference 2022: The Challenge of Creating Better Jobs in Developing Countries. December 14-15, 2022

Climate change is often not taken fully into account by planners and decision makers. This training methodology manual provides guidance for trainers on how to set up and conduct a training for adults, and includes practical examples on these methods' application for topics related to climate change.

The 2022 State of Climate Ambition Regional Snapshots provide regional analysis of Climate Promise supported countries NDC status and implementation readiness. They build upon, and update information, from UNDP's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Global Outlook Report 2021: The State of Climate Ambition. Each Snapshot explores regional NDC submission, ambition and quality status while assessing progress on key systems and architecture for NDC implementation. They also look at areas of past and future Climate Promise support, showcase regional champions and provide insight on emerging […]

Media folks gather in #Hamburg to reflect on news making about past and #future. Barbie Zelizer kicks off on "When the past drives the #News" with cold war language.

Media folks gather in #Hamburg to reflect on news making about past and #future. Barbie Zelizer kicks off on "When the past drives the #News" with cold war language.

Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI's goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. By providing a platform for the distribution of peer-reviewed journals (currently from Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Iran, Kenya, […]

Featuring prominently in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Social Protection has been hailed as instrumental in achieving the Leaving No One Behind (LNOB) promise contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The LNOB offers a compelling advocacy narrative for addressing extreme poverty, social exclusion and inequality. While its value for advocacy is clear, there is less exploration of its application to guide implementation of national policies. This SASPEN Brief by Ms. Renata Nowak-Garmer examines the extent to which the LNOB concept and its operationalisation has […]

The Government™ has finally made an ad about #NetZero by 2050 and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. Speak #climate truth.

Bahá’ís work for the betterment of society and its individuals, promoting principles such as freedom of opportunity, equality between men and women, the free investigation of truth, the search for knowledge as a way to better oneself. #Iran

The integration of human rights in the environmental and social management must ensure that we respect, protect and promote the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and guarantee access to information and participation. @the_IDB

The integration of human rights in the environmental and social management must ensure that we respect, protect and promote the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and guarantee access to information and participation. @the_IDB

A media conference in Hamburg will examine false information, hate speech and the role the media plays in this context

RT @n_thanki: the ecological collapse you thought might happen in your children or grandchildren’s lifetime is in fact happening right now

Researchers at the University of Stockholm have found Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances #PFAS in rainwater in most locations on the planet - including Antarctica. There is no safe space to escape them.