03 Mar 2021
Kimberly Nicole Pope Project and Community Lead, Nature Action Agenda, World Economic Forum
For World Wildlife Day, we asked seven Champions of Nature their picks for books that motivate them.
The answers include
A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel.
During this year’s Davos Agenda Week, leaders from the private and public sectors highlighted the urgent need to halt and reverse nature loss. Deliberate action on the interlinked climate and ecological crises to achieve a net-zero, nature-positive economy is paramount. At the same time, these leaders also presented a message of hope: that investing in nature holds the key to ensuring economic and social prosperity and resilience.
Announcing a milestone event for gender equality: The countdown to the 2021 Generation Equality Forum begins
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ADB s Southeast Asia Development Symposium 2021: Innovation through Collaboration: Planning for Inclusive Post-COVID-19 Recovery
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Today, 270 million people equivalent to the combined population of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy are on the brink of starvation. This number has doubled over the last 12 months. And it is the world s children who are suffering most.
An estimated 11 million children under the age of five face extreme hunger or starvation in 11 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia. Of these, 168,000 will die of malnutrition by the end of 2022 unless they receive emergency support. And a total of 73 million primary schoolchildren in 60 low-income countries are chronically hungry.
Hunger was already on the rise before the coronavirus pandemic, mostly as a result of war and conflict, and climate change exacerbated it. But the secondary effects of the pandemic have created a global hunger crisis.
Launch of the Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency
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