Africa, a continent where climate disasters affected 110 million people and caused at least 5,000 deaths in 2022, suffers disproportionately from the effects of global warming, which will worsen the food crisis and it will increase the conflicts over resources that are already hitting it, warns today a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). […]
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Cartagena hosts the largest development banking summit with a view to sustainable finance
Cartagena de Indias will host the fourth edition of the Finanzas en Común Summit (FiCS), the world’s largest meeting of development banks, in which the participants will try to strengthen alliances with a view to a more sustainable future. “The Summit will seek to strengthen the alliances and collaboration of the global network of PDBs […]
The UN expresses its “concern” at the trial on indigenous rights in Brazil
The UN expressed this Wednesday his “worry” in the face of possible reversals of rights natives in Brazil the same day that the Federal Supreme Court resumed a trial on ancestral lands. The representative for South America of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jan Jarab, criticized in a statement […]
UN: Fall in the price of coca contributes to food insecurity in Colombia
The collapse of the price of Coca leafthe main input of the cocaineis contributing to food insecurity in Colombia and causing displacement, as people leave areas that depend on illicit cultivation, revealed an internal presentation of United Nations known to Reuters. Historically, coca cultivation has provided better incomes than legal alternatives for thousands of rural […]
Robots tell UN conference that one day they will be able to run the world
Humanoid robots operated by artificial intelligence (AI) stated Friday at a conference of the UN that one day they could run the world better than humans. However, they believe that humans should be careful with AI and admit that they still do not control our emotions. These robots -some of the most advanced in the […]
FAO: food waste generates global losses of US$ 400,000 million
He food waste At a global level, it generates losses of some US$ 400,000 million dollars (368,000 million euros) each year and implies the waste of 14% of the food produced worldwide, warned today the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The report “Agricultural Outlook 2023-2032″prepared together with the Organization for Economic […]
The Chinese Qu Dongyu, re-elected as FAO director with more than 90% of the votes
The Chinese What Dongyu was re-elected this Sunday as general director of the United Nations for Agriculture and Food (FAO) after receiving 168 votes from the 182 member countries, which represents a support of more than 90%. Nominated by China, Qu was the only candidate for the position after the withdrawal of the other applicants, […]
UN warns new threat to world food security due to Russia-Ukraine war
The United Nations warned Thursday of a new threat to the food safety world market, noting that Russia is limiting the number of ships allowed to pick up Ukrainian grain at Black Sea ports as part of its campaign to force Kiev to open a pipeline for a key fertilizer ingredient to reach world markets. […]
Three out of 10 Internet users in Mexico suffer from cyberbullying, according to the UN
three out of 10 mexican that use the Internet have suffered cyberbullying, which is equivalent to 10 million women, reported this Wednesday the office of the United Nations in Mexico for the International Women’s Day. The UN warned in a statement that digital violence “can lead to other forms of violence in the real world”citing […]
Three out of every 4 children lack social protection, stalled by the pandemic
Almost three out of four children in the world (73.6%) are outside social protection services, and this percentage, calculated at the beginning of the pandemic (2020), is even higher than that of four years earlier, when it was from 72.8%, warns a United Nations report published today. The joint study by the International Labor Organization […]