Drilling Deeper 2024: Global Oil & Gas Extraction Tracker

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Globally last year, oil and gas producers sanctioned and discovered the equivalent of all the proven oil reserves in Europe. They aim to quadruple the amount sanctioned by the end of the decade, despite scientific consensus that any new field developments are incompatible with scenarios to limit temperature increases to 1.5°C, finds a new report from Global Energy Monitor.

Co-creation in sport for development: The Living Lab approach

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Involving project participants and other stakeholders in programme design is crucial to successful programming. The Sport for Social Cohesion Lab project is creating resources to assist organisations in doing that.

Agrifood systems transformation holds the key to our environmental challenges

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FAO Deputy Director-General Semedo joins the United Nations Environment Assembly and Quadripartite Executive Annual Meeting

Transformation Index, Bertelsmann Stiftung

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The quality of democracy in developing and transformation countries has been in steady decline over the past 20 years. The latest findings of the Transformation Index of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, now in its tenth edition, show that out of 137 countries surveyed, only 63 remain democracies, while a majority are classified as autocracies.

Global Summit on Extreme Heat: March 28 at 8:30 AM ET.

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Please join the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) for the Global Summit on Extreme Heat, which will take place online on Thursday, March 28 at 8:30 AM ET.

The Center for Victims of Torture: ADVOCATING FOR CHANGE

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Healing for survivors of torture cannot be complete without justice. CVT works with local, national and international governments to advocate for policies and practices that promote the well-being of survivors and the prevention of torture.

IVCO 2023: KUALA LUMPUR CALL TO ACTION

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024 We are pleased to share the Kuala Lumpur Call to Action, a statement developed by the delegates at IVCO 2023. It expresses our commitment to support and encourage a new generation of volunteers as changemakers. We hope you will share and discuss the Call to Action with your colleagues, and that your organisation will endorse it using the link at the bottom of this email.

OXFAM: Global water crisis looms yet only one in four of the biggest food and agriculture corporations say they’re reducing water use and pollution

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Only 28 percent of the world’s most influential food and agriculture corporations report they are reducing their water withdrawals and just 23 percent say they are taking action to reduce water pollution. Oxfam’s new analysis of 350 corporations using World Benchmarking Alliance data comes ahead of World Water Day (March 22).

The Relationship between Digital Technologies and Atrocity Prevention

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New and emerging digital technologies — including, among others, social media platforms, artificial intelligence, geospatial technology, facial recognition and surveillance tools — have and will continue to rapidly shift the space of human interaction in the modern world.

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