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The global vaccine rollout is very uneven; some nations may reach herd immunity years before others.
Israel, the US, and the UK are vaccinating people quickly. Brazil, India, and Japan are trailing.
One chart shows when 18 countries could reach three vaccination milestones.
By next week, about half of the US s population will have received at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine a milestone that could take other countries years to reach.
The pace of vaccinations across the globe remains highly uneven. As of Monday, wealthy countries had received 83% of the world s vaccine supply despite making up just 53% of the world s population, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.
Destroying the Amazon
May 11, 2021
At the Leaders’ Summit on the Climate, held on Earth Day, April 22, the speech by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to the forty world leaders is a clear example of the use of this popular Brazilian expression, this time expanded: for the world to see.
The virtual meeting was an attempt by the Brazilian government to persuade the international community that Brazil needs financial support from other countries to save the Amazon rainforest.
Responsible for at least 10 percent of the planet s biodiversity, the Amazon – threatened for decades by deforestation – brings moisture to all of South America, influences rainfall in the region, and contributes to stabilizing the global climate. The Amazon also absorbs carbon, a benefit that has acted as a ‘brake’ on the planet’s warming process, but which has decreased significantly over the past few years due to rapid deforestation.
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