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THE STANDARD By Prof Michael Chege | March 4th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 The report is not opposed to equitable rapid growth in poor countries as long as it avoids the destruction of nature in net terms. [Elvis [Ogina, Standard] A few days ago, Bill Gates warned that the looming climate change disaster will exceed Covid-19, and Africa will suffer disproportionately from it. Because it originated from a zoonotic pathogen, one that crossed from animals to humans, the Covid-19 tragedy has sparked renewed interest on how the damage we have wrought our natural heritage in the quest for econom...

Redirecting our impact on the planet 00:23 | 12/02/2021 By Caitlin Wiesen - Resident representative in Vietnam United Nations Development Programme The ambition of the first report, published in 1990, was to shift the focus of development thinking to human capabilities rather than focus exclusively on economic growth. Increasing incomes is important, especially for the poor and vulnerable, but we also need access to quality healthcare and education to realise our full potential. Vietnam’s extraordinary achievement of joining the High Human Development grou...

UNDP’s Global Human Development Report launched in Sri Lanka January, 8, 2021 UNDP commits support to define and operationalize a national development plan underpinned by Green Development thinking Report notes it is time for all countries to redesign their paths to progress by fully accounting for dangerous pressures humans impose on the planet The Global Human Development Report (HDR) was launched this morning by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka bringing together a wide range of high-level participation from the Government, Public and Private sector, Developmen...

Posted by Administrator on By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka The ultranationalist Buddhist clergy has commenced a two-pronged campaign: (a) against burials and for cremation of COVID-19 victims, a policy that is mandatory only in a handful of the UN’s 193 countries, and (b) against Provincial Councils and the holding of Provincial Council Elections before the promulgation of a new Constitution. Justice Minister Sabry was a target of the agitated monks. These formations of the Buddhist clergy have long been part of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s support base, by their own public admission and e...

Vietnam listed in high human development category group: UNDP new report Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công  17/12/2020    10:45 GMT+7 Vietnam has broken into the group of countries with high human development, but this remarkable progress has been accompanied with relatively high pressures on the planet. These are among the key findings of the 2020 Human Development Report “The next frontier – Human Development and the Anthropocene,” re...