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AmberSail2 - The Ocean Race © The Ocean Race AmberSail 2, the first ever Lithuanian entry in The Ocean Race, has set sustainability as a key focus for their team by aligning with The Ocean Race's Racing with Purpose programme. One of their first major initiatives has been to organise a major environmental event, the European Green Course Conference, in Klaipeda, Lithuania to coincide with the northern European Prologue event of The Ocean Race Europe. Regimantas Buožius, Head of Ambersail-2 Global Programme comments: "We are organising this conference as sustainability is one of ...

NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - Early in the pandemic, there was hope that the world would one day achieve herd immunity, the point when the coronavirus lacks enough hosts to spread easily. Experts now say it is changing too quickly, new more contagious variants are spreading too easily and vaccinations are happening too slowly for herd immunity to be within reach anytime soon. That means if the virus continues to run rampant through much of the world, it is well on its way to becoming endemic, an ever-present threat. Virus variants are tearing through places where people gather in large numbers with fe...

COVID-19: a threat to progress against child marriage in Niger Format The COVID-19 pandemic is profoundly affecting the everyday lives of girls The COVID-19 pandemic is profoundly affecting the everyday lives of girls: their physical and mental health, their education, and the economic circumstances of their families and communities. Changes like these increase the likelihood of child marriage, and over the next decade, up to 10 million more girls will be at risk of becoming child brides as a result of the pandemic worldwide. Questions and answers with Aboubacry Tall, UNICEF Representative a....

Global Scale-up Programme Manager at GC Business Growth Hub, Anna Carson Parker,. An innovative North-South collaboration will take Black, Asian and mixed background tech founders on a five-day virtual trade mission to New York. The Race Ethnicity And Cultural Heritage (REACH) Mission to North America has been organised by The Growth Company’s Global Scale-Up programme together with the London & Partners Mayor’s International Business programme. The mission will support B2B tech sector companies in Greater Manchester and London to explore and accelerate their expansion plans across ...

COVID-19 vaccine coverage won’t hit 60% mark in 92 poorest countries until 2023 16 April 2021 | News The US alone is expected to have at least 300 million excess doses of vaccine by the end of July 2021, according to new research released Source credit: Shutterstock Just 10 nations with less than half the world’s population are administering three-quarters of all COVID-19 vaccine doses, while the poorest countries have barely begun vaccinating due to lack of funding and supply. The US alone is expected to have at least 300 million excess doses of vaccine by the end of July 20...