The finding raises troubling questions about how to effectively eliminate the poison from children’s bodies.
The battery recycling industry is responsible for much of the lead soil contamination in poor and middle-income countries.
Decades after the industrialized world largely eliminated lead poisoning in children, the potent neurotoxin still lurks in one in three children globally.
“Once the lead is in the environment, it stays there pretty much indefinitely without remediation,” says study lead author Jenna Forsyth, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. “Ultimately, we want to work toward a world in which battery recycling is done safely, and lead never makes it into the soil or people’s bodies in the first place.”
Pablo Santaeufemia of Bridge for Billions: “Entrepreneurship and business systems”
…We need to first accept and then analyse our rigged systems to detect inefficiencies and rooted discrimination. Most of our systems today, pick any: our educational systems, social security systems, electrification systems, taxation systems… All were designed by a generation that no longer lives or for a world that no longer exists. Hence, it is […]
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Digitalization crucial to SIDS’ COVID-19 recovery, long-term development
VIENNA, 12 January 2021 - The upscaling of digital technologies presents a host of opportunities for small island developing states (SIDS) to diversify their economies, boost manufacturing, gain greater access to global value chains, and improve disaster preparedness. However, significant obstacles remain, including inadequate digital infrastructure, insufficient training opportunities for women and young people, a growing digital divide, and a lack of data and policy knowledge. That’s according to an expert panel convened for the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit
Ralf Bredel, Chief of the Asia-Pacific Regional Programme at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), said that SIDS share common challenges such as limited resource bases, long distances to primary markets, and vulnerability to climate change.
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China Daily Global / 2021-01 / 11 / Page008
China s International Development Cooperation in the New Era China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-01-11 00:00 Editor s Note: China s State Council Information Office issued a white paper titled China s International Development Cooperation in the New Era , on Sunday. Full text below:
Preface II.Achieving New Progress in International Development Cooperation III.Boosting International Cooperation on the Belt and Road IV.Contributing to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development V.Responding to Global Humanitarian Challenges Together VI.Supporting the Endogenous Growth of Developing Countries VII.Strengthening International Exchanges and Tripartite Cooperation VIII.Future Prospects for China s International Development Cooperation