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April 2, 2021 A WRI initiative, Cool Foods, uses behavioral science to help food services operators cut emissions by a quarter by 2030. Shutterstock Close Authorship Back before the pandemic, around 10,000 employees arrived every day at Genentech, a biotechnology company headquartered in South San Francisco. "It’s really a little city," said Allen Napetian, the company’s vice president for site services, when he described the campus to me this week. More than half of those workers would he...

Ethiopia as some of the most acute food insecure countries on planet earth. The World Food Program 2021 hunger hotspot report warned that families and individuals in those five countries, four of them in Sub-Saharan Africa, were at imminent risk of starvation and death. - Advertisement - The cause of acute hunger differs from country to country. In Yemen, a raging war has left millions of people without basic amenities including food. In Nigeria, key drivers of food insecurity include interna...

The United Nations is warning that an offensive by Houthi rebels in Yemen has escalated the nearly six-year conflict in the Arab world’s poorest nation as it “speeds towards a massive famine.”.

UNITED NATIONS —  The United Nations warned Tuesday that an offensive by Houthi rebels in Yemen has escalated the nearly six-year conflict in the Arab world’s poorest nation as it “speeds towards a massive famine.” U.N. special envoy Martin Griffiths and U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock painted a grim picture of the political, economic and humanitarian crisis in Yemen, which is exacerbated by a government blockade of fuel ships entering the country’s main port of Hodeida contro...

Updated 4 days ago The UN warns the Arab world’s poorest nation is speeding “towards a massive famine.” Edith M. Lederer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations warned Tuesday that an offensive by Houthi rebels in Yemen has escalated the nearly six-year conflict in the Arab world’s poorest nation as it “speeds towards a massive famine.” U.N. special envoy Martin Griffiths and U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock painted a grim picture of the political, economic and humanitarian c...

17 March 2021 10:07 GMT Updated  17 March 2021 10:07 GMT in  Singapore Myanmar’s parallel civilian government has joined human rights groups in calling on leading oil and gas companies with operations in the nation to stop all payments to the military junta that seized power in a 1 February coup. The group of democratically elected politicians — who have named themselves the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) — urged operators to suspend paying revenues to stat...

The United Nations Human Rights Commission has reported that at least 149 protesters have been killed in the crackdown on anti-coup demonstrations and the media.

CAMEROON, Cameroon — The United Nations warned Tuesday that an offensive by Houthi rebels in Yemen has escalated the nearly six-year conflict in the Arab world’s poorest nation as it “speeds towards a massive famine.” U.N. special envoy Martin Griffiths and U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock painted a grim picture of the political, economic and […]

The "unlawful use of lethal force against peaceful protestors" in Myanmar has killed at least 149 people, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) said on Tuesday

Meath man Derek O’Rourke is GOAL’s Middle East Security Advisor. He outlines the challenges faced by NGOs as they navigate Syrian regions devastated by war.