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Financing critical for transitioning to a net-positive future
7 months ago

Financing critical for transitioning to a net-positive future

China Daily  

The file photo shows a wind power plant in Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province. With densely populated coasts, heavy dependence on agriculture, poverty that still afflicts millions, and temperatures rising twice as fast as the global average, this is the most vulnerable region to climate change.iii Between 2000 and 2023, over 1600 floods devastated the Asia Pacific region, killing more …

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Prospect of better-paid work, not doctrine, the lure for Africa's jihadists, says UN
1 year, 10 months ago

Prospect of better-paid work, not doctrine, the lure for Africa's jihadists, says UN

Firstpost  

Geneva, Switzerland: Poverty and the prospect of better-paid work, rather than ideology, are what fuel recruitment to jihadist and other violent groups in Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday. The UN Development Programme in 2021 interviewed nearly 2,200 people across eight countries torn by jihadist or other violent groups – Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan. …

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Inflation pushed 71M people into poverty since Ukraine war
2 years, 5 months ago

Inflation pushed 71M people into poverty since Ukraine war

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report Thursday. The UNDP estimates that 51.6 million more people fell into poverty in the first …

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Inflation pushed 71 million people into poverty since Ukraine war
2 years, 5 months ago

Inflation pushed 71 million people into poverty since Ukraine war

The Hindu  

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Programme said in a report on July 7. The UNDP noted that 125 million people experienced poverty over about 18 months during the pandemic's lockdowns …

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Yemen War Will Have Killed 377,000 by Year's End: UN
3 years, 1 month ago

Yemen War Will Have Killed 377,000 by Year's End: UN

News 18  

Yemen’s seven-year-old war will have claimed 377,000 lives by the end of the year, through both direct and indirect impacts, a UN agency estimated in a report published Tuesday. Most of those killed by the war’s indirect effects are “young children who are especially vulnerable to under- and malnutrition,” said the UN Development Programme report. “A growing proportion of those …

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East Sikkim best performing district: North-Eastern SDG Index by NITI Aayog
3 years, 3 months ago

East Sikkim best performing district: North-Eastern SDG Index by NITI Aayog

Hindustan Times  

The North Eastern District Sustainable Development Goals Index & Dashboard 2021-22, a collaborative project of NITI Aayog and Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, with technical inputs from UNDP, was launched recently. It ranks the districts in the eight North Eastern States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura on their performance in the SDGs …

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Japan, UNDP to provide 8 oxygen-generation plants to NE: Union minister
3 years, 7 months ago

Japan, UNDP to provide 8 oxygen-generation plants to NE: Union minister

Hindustan Times  

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday said Japan and the United Nations Development Programme have partnered to provide eight oxygen-generation plants to ensure an uninterrupted supply of the life-saving gas at hospitals in the northeast. Singh, the Minister of State for the Development of North Eastern Region, said all the eight northeastern states are pro-actively assisted by the Centre to …

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