Production Gap Report 2020 (UNEP)

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This report highlights the discrepancy between countries’ planned fossil fuel production levels and the global levels necessary to limit warming to 1.5°C or 2°C. This gap is large, with countries aiming to produce 120% more fossil fuels by 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C.

State of Climate Action: Assessing Progress Toward 2030 and 2050

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Experts highlight findings of a new report showing that while progress on climate action has been made in key sectors like power, buildings, industry, transport, forests and agriculture, it's not nearly enough to achieve a safer, climate-resilient future.

Summary of the UN Climate Change Dialogues ( from IISD)

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This is a remarkable summary of the UN sponsored Climate Change Dialogues that were run between 23 Nov to 4th Dec, 2020, a series of online events that focused on implementing various aspects of the Convention and the Paris Agreement.

Stopping Slavery( from ashoka)

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What does it take to break down the secretive, highly organized, global system of human slavery? 75 social entrepreneurs are individually and collectively the most powerful force opposing it.

In Focus: 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence

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UN Women’s Generation Equality campaign is amplifying the call for global action to bridge funding gaps, ensure essential services for survivors of violence during the COVID-19 crisis, focus on prevention, and collection of data that can improve life-saving services for women and girls.

Climate Ambition Summit 2020

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"At the Climate Ambition Summit 2020, countries will set out new and ambitious commitments under the three pillars of the Paris Agreement: mitigation, adaptation and finance commitments. There will be no space for general statements'.

iAVE 2020 GLOBAL VIRTUAL SERIES: Volunteering 2030 – New Paradigms December 9, 2020 at 9:00 AM ET

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Rapidly changing societal trends, technological innovation, virtual landscapes, and a global commitment to enabling the Sustainable Development Goals for everyone, everywhere creates an emerging dynamic where established boundaries for volunteering are being challenged and changed.

CLIMATE CHANGE PERFORMANCE INDEX

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New ranking of 58 countries with the highest emissions published today: None of the countries surveyed are on a path compatible with the Paris Agreement goals / Emissions are decreasing in more than half of the countries analyzed / USA is at the bottom of the ranking.

EUROPEAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2020

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he Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) have launched the 2020 edition of the Europe Sustainable Development Report (ESDR)!

Together we can end violence against children and violence against women in East Asia and the Pacific Joint Statement by UN Women, UNICEF and UNFPA

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Through this statement, the regional representative for East Asia and the Pacific from key UN Agencies, shares their readiness tp "strengthen ongoing collaboration to tackle violence against women and children" while also " calling on all actors working to end these violations to join hands for prevention, response and evidence generation".

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