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The heads of the Quadripartite organisations working on One Health has issued an unprecedented call for enhanced global action in view of the recent global health emergencies such as Covid-19 pandemic, mpox and Ebola outbreaks.

United nations - Several African and Latin American countries on Thursday launched a major initiative to restore 300,000 kilometers of rivers by 2030, a

'Freshwater Challenge' aims to restore degraded rivers as long as seven times the Earth's circumference and an area of wetlands larger than India by 2030

UNITED NATIONS, United States -- Several African and Latin American countries on Thursday launched a major initiative to restore 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) of rivers by 2030, as well as lakes and wetlands degraded by human activity.

Several African and Latin American countries on Thursday launched a major initiative to restore 300,000 kilometers of rivers by 2030, as well as lakes and wetlands degraded by human activity. The "Freshwater Challenge," led by a coalition of governments that includes Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mexico and Gabon, is the largest river…

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* Freshwater Challenge led by Colombia, DR Congo, Ecuador, Gabon, Mexico, Zambia * Aims to restore 300,000km of rivers and 350 million hectares of wetlands by 2030 New York, 22 March 2023 - A coalition of governments today launched the Freshwater ...

Costa Rica has won international acclaim for its initiatives to restore its forests. But those successes are now jeopardized by conflicts over the government’s failure to return traditional lands to the Indigenous people who are regarded as the best forest stewards.

“The climate time bomb is ticking,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The world will likely overshoot the Paris Agreement's most ambitious target of 1.5 degrees Celsius, says a report billed as "a survival guide for humanity."