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Invisible earth: new framework focus on social wellbeing benefits of soil biodiversity
An international team of researchers including Western Sydney University are collaborating on a new Global Soil Biodiversity Network (SoilBON) program to collectively advance knowledge of the world’s soil biodiversity.
More than one-quarter of all life on Earth lives in our soils, yet little is known about the true state of soils and their biodiversity compared to above-ground ecosystems. More than 196 states are currently negotiating a new strategy for the protection of biodiversity within the framework of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through which the researchers aim to have soil biodiversity included.
Responsible business approach
Lloyd s responsible business approach underpins our core mission, which is to support global economic growth, enable human progress, and help nations, businesses and communities recover post disaster by paying claims
We want to be known as a responsible business leader, operating in a way that makes those who work for us feel proud of their contribution to what we do and how we do it.
Our programmes focus on four key themes which are integral to Lloyd’s and the wider insurance sector. These are:
Innovation
Empowering individuals to reach their potential
As part of our journey to become a more responsible business, we signed up to the United Nations Global Compact last year to commit to their sustainability principles. As a new member, this is our first report on our activities in relation to the Global Compact’s ten universal principles for human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. Our actions in these areas improve our respo
WHO director Tedros Ghebreyesus named 2021 commencement speaker
January 26, 2021 – Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), will serve as commencement speaker at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s 2021 ceremony in May.
An Ethiopian academic, politician, and public health leader, Dr. Tedros was elected as WHO’s director-general at the 70th World Health Assembly in May 2017, the first person from the WHO African Region to assume the role. “As someone who has worked tirelessly to reform health systems in Ethiopia and across Africa, he will bring great insight and the political leadership necessary to restore trust in the WHO at a critical moment in its history,” said Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, at the time of Dr. Tedros’ appointment.
A similar thing happened with the draft work programmes for Horizon 2020, before its official launch in 2014. Then a quick Google search served up several “confidential” documents, providing crucial information for those interested in applying for the first calls under the €70 billion programme.
That led to criticisms – denied by the Commission - that a select group of institutes and universities had been given a preview of the crucial documents, well ahead of the first round of calls.
The publication of draft work programmes has been a long-simmering issue in the Commission’s framework R&D programmes. The documents are written by Commission staffers in several drafts over a few years, and the later drafts are shared with the Programme Committees – the legally constituted groups of EU member state representatives who have a say in how the work programmes end up. That means there are hundreds of officials across the EU have access to the documents. Inevitably, they leak
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Vietnam s economy has gained many important and comprehensive achievements in the 2016-20 period, helping highlight the country’s success in 35 years of Doi moi (Renewal) process.
From a country with a trade deficit, Viet Nam has successfully balanced imports and exports, even gaining a trade surplus. Photo bnews.vn
Assessing the Vietnamese economic achievements, many international organisations have recently noted Viet Nam as a legendary story , a rising star , or the brightest economy” in Asia.
The country is considered the world s success story as its economic growth has been among the world s strongest over the past decade.