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Quotes: Global Citizen Launches a Recovery Plan for the World - a Campaign to End COVID-19 for All and Kickstart a Global Recovery
Published 02-23-21
Submitted by Global Citizen
NEW YORK, GENÈVE, Switzerland, and BRUSSELS, February 23, 2021 /CSRwire/– International advocacy organization Global Citizen today launched a Recovery Plan for the World - a campaign to end COVID-19 for all and kickstart a global recovery. The Recovery Plan for the World is a year-long campaign and series of events that aims to: 1) end COVID-19 for all; 2) end the hunger crisis; 3) resume learning everywhere; 4) protect the planet; and 5) advance equity for all.
A fog lifts over the campus of Sitting Bull College (SBC) in Fort Yates, North Dakota, as the sun rises over the Missouri River to the east. To the west, a white wind turbine is revealed at the top of the neighboring hill, the first to come in the community. Between the current campus buildings and the hill, architects are finishing drafts of a new state-of-the-art science center.
As wildfires draw attention to air quality and changes in the natural environment, and as COVID-19 provides the general public an awareness of concepts like airborne particulate matter, SBC, already a regional leader in wind energy technology education, has launched an ambitious atmospheric science curriculum and research program. In partnership with NASA, SBC has begun work on its Facility for Innovative Atmospheric Research and Education (FIARE), to be located in the heart of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. FIARE will provide the reservation and broad geographic region with air quality education, r
Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for more than 8 million people worldwide in 2018.
More than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution, significantly higher than previous research suggested, according to new research from Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London. Researchers estimated that exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel emissions accounted for 18 percent of total global deaths in 2018 a little less than 1 out of 5.
Regions with the highest concentrations of fossil fuel-related air pollution including Eastern North America, Europe, and South-East Asia have the highest rates of mortality, according to the study published in the journal Environmental Research.
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