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Covid-19 Has Exposed Inequalities in Short Time; Human Should Work With Nature: UNDP Report
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The COVID-19 pandemic took little time to expose the inequalities as well as weaknesses in social and economic systems, which call for a greater need to work with and not against the nature, the UNDP said in a report launched on Wednesday. The pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world but unless humans release their grip on nature, it will not be the last, according said the 2020 report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report has included a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint. It took COVID-19 very little time to expose and exploit overlapping inequalities, as well as weaknesses in social, economic, and political systems, and threaten reversals in human development.
4:27 PM MYT UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) The COVID-19 pandemic, the latest crisis facing the world, will not be the last unless humans release their grip on nature, said a new UN report published Tuesday. According to the report titled The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene, world leaders need to take bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the environment and the natural world, or humanity s progress will stall. Humans wield more power over the planet than ever before. In the wake of COVID-19, record-breaking temperatures and spiraling inequality, it is time to use that power to redefine what we mean by progress, where our carbon and consumption footprints are no longer hidden, said Achim Steiner, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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U.N. Report: In The Age Of Humans, ‘The Dominant Risk To Our Survival Is Ourselves’
By Laurel Wamsley
December 15, 2020
“Warning lights for our societies and the planet are flashing red.” That’s according to a new report from the United Nations Development Programme.
The report notes that COVID-19 has thrived “in the cracks in societies, exploiting and exacerbating myriad inequalities in human development.”
While the pandemic has dominated much of the world’s attention in 2020, the report notes that existing crises continue:
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