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The University of Canterburys first Doctor of Education has graduated saying he wants to be a good role model for his children. Te Hurinui Karaka-Clarke and his whānau on graduation day (From left - youngest son Richie Renata Clarke, Te Hurinui Karaka-Clarke and wife Claire Robertshaw). Photo: Te Hurinui Karaka-Clarke Te Hurinui Karaka-Clarke of Te Arawa and Ngāi Tahu received his doctorate in his hometown of Rotorua after what he says has been a fairly long journey but that it felt wonderfu...

Redefining issues of our time “In the wake of COVID-19, record-breaking temperatures and spiraling inequality, it is time to use that power to redefine what we mean by progress, where our carbon and consumption footprints are no longer hidden,” said Achim Steiner, the Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP). “As this report shows, no country in the world has yet achieved very high human development without putting immense strain on the planet. “But we could be the first gen...

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 ...

Ringo Chiu / AFP via Getty Images Originally published on December 15, 2020 5:15 pm "Warning lights — for our societies and the planet — are flashing red." Thats according to a new report from the United Nations Development Programme. The report notes that COVID-19 has thrived "in the cracks in societies, exploiting and exacerbating myriad inequalities in human development." While the pandemic has dominated much of the worlds attention in 2020, the report notes that existing crises co...

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...

Code red: UN calls for urgent shift to planet-friendly development 212 A United Nations logo is seen on a glass door in the Assembly Building at the United Nations headquarters in New York City September 18, 2015. Reuters photographer Mike Segar documented quieter moments at the famed 18-acre headquarters on Manhattans East Side. The U.N., established as the successor to the failed League of Nations after World War Two to prevent a similar conflict from occurring again, attracts more than a mi...

iPolitics By Quinn Barrie-Watts. Published on Dec 15, 2020 12:13pm The Lead   The federal government is planning to spend $3.16 billion to plant two billion trees over the next 10 years, Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan announced Monday. The program is to start in the spring. “There is no path to net-zero carbon emissions that doesn’t involve our forests,” O’Regan said. “Trees increase our community’s long-term resilience to climate change. They reduce the likelihood...

UAE ranked first in Arab world in Human Development Report 2020 Wam/Dubai (Wam) The Human Development Index (HDI) measures life expectancy, education and per-capita income indicators. The UAE has been ranked first in the Arab world in the Human Development Report 2020 issued by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), advancing by four positions from last year’s report and ranking 31st globally out of a total of 189 countries. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite...