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UNICEF/Oliver Asselin | A girl carries a basket of fruits through a flooded street in Cotonou, a large port city in Benin. While the coronavirus pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans “release their grip on nature”, it won’t be the last, the agency said in its latest edition of the Human Development Report, entitled The Next Frontier, released on Tuesday [15 December 2020]. “Humans wield more power over the planet than ever before. In the wake of COVID-19, r...

Human Development Report 2020: The next frontier - Human development and the Anthropocene Format Broken societies put people and planet on collision course, says UNDP An experimental global index offers a new measurement of human progress that illustrates the challenge of tackling poverty and inequality while easing planetary pressure New York – The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a n...

Posted on The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which includes a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint. The report lays out a stark choice for world leaders – take bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the ...

The next frontier of human development - the shared fate of people and planet 15th Dec 2020    |    Source: UNDP This week, Ghana joins the rest of the world in launching a landmark report that shapes the new frontier in global human development. It recognizes that for the first time in a relationship spanning 300,000 years, instead of the planet shaping humanity, humanity is shaping the planet. This latest UNDP Human Development Report, titled “The Next Frontier: Human Development an...

UN: without climate action, human progress will stall Great schools and hospitals not enough to win rich countries top rankings in development index as climate effect added for first time Signs from Fridays for Future movement in Berlin, Germany. Ten cities joined New York and London in committing to divest from fossil fuel companies as part of efforts to combat climate change. AP Climate activists march in an attempt to occupy the Garzweiler open-cast coal mine and nearby gas infrastructure on...

Code red: UN calls for urgent shift to planet-friendly development Reuters 15/12/2020 By Megan Rowling © Reuters/BRIAN SNYDER FILE PHOTO: A home sits in front of the William H. Zimmer Power Station along the Ohio River in Moscow By Megan Rowling BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Under huge pressure from COVID-19, climate change and natural destruction, warning lights for the planet and societies are "flashing red" - and now is the time to choose a safer, fairer pat...

What a long, dark year this has been. A tiny virus has humbled the human race, threatening to reverse decades of development. Scientists predicted a pandemic like COVID-19 for years because of the ever-greater pressures we humans put on nature in the name of progress. Consider this: the exceeds the total mass of all living things on the planet, from tiny bacteria to giant whales, according to new research. As the Human Development Report (HDR) we launch today sets out, this is the Anthropoc...

Code red: UN calls for urgent shift to planet-friendly development Tuesday, 15 December 2020 05:01 GMT FILE PHOTO: Residents watch the Blue Ridge Fire burning in Yorba Linda, California, U.S., October 26, 2020. REUTERS/Ringo Chiu About our Climate coverage We focus on the human and development impacts of climate change Share: By Megan Rowling BARCELONA, Dec 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Under huge pressure from COVID-19, climate change and natural destruction, warning lights for the ...

UN calls for urgent shift to planet-friendly development Thomson Reuters Foundation, Barcelona Thomson Reuters Foundation, Barcelona Under huge pressure from Covid-19, climate change and natural destruction, warning lights for the planet and societies are "flashing red" - and now is the time to choose a safer, fairer path for human development, the United Nations said yesterday.  "We are at an unprecedented moment in the history of humankind and in t...