The Value of Your Voice ( from Ashoka)

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Brazil's Ministry of Education has approved Everyone a Changemaker Learning materials that have been co-authored by Ashoka for up to 1.5 million high school students

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ACT NOW: New nationwide back to school campaign promotes safe COVID-19 behavior for the 2021 school year in Cambodia

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Today the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), supported by UNICEF, launched a national back to school campaign to encourage Cambodian children to return to classrooms while practicing safe behavior to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As the new school year starts, and with COVID-19 still a global challenge, this campaign will be crucial in making school environments as safe as possible.

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The Rockefeller Foundation Recognizes Top 10 Visionaries Transforming the Future of Food Systems Across 8 Countries

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New York, January 7, 2021 – Ahead of the first-ever United Nations’ Food Systems Summit, the Food System Vision Prize announced its top 10 “Visionaries” who offer solutions to complex food system challenges across six categories: environment, diets, economics, culture, technology, and policy. These winners will each be awarded $200,000 in recognition of their bold ideas.

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OCEAN WISE STUDY: SYNTHETIC FIBERS ARE INVADING THE ARCTIC

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Ocean Wise has produced the most comprehensive study to date on Arctic Ocean microplastics. And the results are troubling.

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OCEAN WISE STUDY: SYNTHETIC FIBERS ARE INVADING THE ARCTIC

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Ocean Wise has produced the most comprehensive study to date on Arctic Ocean microplastics. And the results are troubling.

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Terra Carta’ – a charter that puts sustainability at the heart of the private sector.

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As part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, HRH The Prince of Wales, announces the ‘Terra Carta’ – a charter that puts sustainability at the heart of the private sector.

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The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge (BLOOMBERG CITIES NETWORK/BLOOMBERG PHILANTROPIES)

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The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date. After uncovering the 50 most innovative urban solutions in the wake of COVID-19, the Challenge will award 15 grand prize winners $1 million each—to help cities implement their breakthrough ideas and, ultimately, to spread those ideas to other cities on a global scale.

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A One Planet Summit for Biodiversity

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France is organizing, in cooperation with the United Nations and the World Bank, a 'One Planet Summit' for biodiversity on January 11, 2021 in Paris. It will be an opportunity to raise the level of ambition of the international community on the protection of nature, while responding to the new questions raised by the crisis.

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EVENT FROM STIMSON CENTER: Beyond the Horizon: Outlining Risks and Opportunities in 2024 (stimson event)

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Join us as Stimson’s foreign policy experts predict the biggest issues to watch in 2024. Through a series of panel discussions and quickfire examinations, we will highlight the most volatile and urgent issues of the new year, identify meaningful opportunities, and help set the agenda for foreign policy priorities in 2024. January 24, 2024 9:30 - 11:30 AM

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CREATIVE FUTURES from FORD FOUNDATION

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CREATIVE FUTURES is a series of 40 provocations by thinkers across the spheres of arts and culture, documentary film, and journalism unfolding throughout the fall of 2020.

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Greening the Blue report 2020

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The 2020 Greening the Blue report -released on 10th December 2020 provides a snapshot of the UN System’s environmental impacts throughout 2019 and the activities underway to reduce them.

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Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene: The human right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia (The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, RWI)

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"For the first time in human history, people are collectively modifying the Earth’s environment and ecosystems on a global scale. Some scholars suggest the world is entering a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which Earth systems are moving into a risky and unstable state as a result of people’s impacts on the environment" says the report.

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NEW REGULATIONS TO REDUCE WASTE PLASTIC DUMPING ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

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The Guardian is reporting on an amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal aiming at allowing developing countries to have a say on the waste plastic they receive for recycling. The amendment to the convention will come into force from the 1st of January 2021.It will take few years to see an impact though.

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RSF’s 2020 round-up: 50 journalists killed, two-thirds in countries “at peace”

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A total of 50 journalists were killed worldwide in 2020, according to the second part of the annual round-up of abusive treatment and violence against journalists, published today by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). While the number of journalists killed in countries at war continues to fall, more are being murdered in countries not at war.

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Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) are releasing a landmark publication on illegal border pushbacks in the EU.

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The ‘Black Book of Pushbacks’ brings together a wealth of evidence on these violations, analysing in detail the way that these brutal acts have become systematised at the external border and renewing calls to end impunity for perpetrating EU authorities.

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2020 RCE Awards for Innovative Projects on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

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RCE refers to the Regional Centers of Expertise on Sustainable Education and are localized partnerships to promote sustainable development.

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Asia-Pacific Mayors’ Academy Highlights Sustainable Urban Development During Opening Session

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Asia-Pacific Mayors’ Academy Highlights Sustainable Urban Development During Opening Session. Mayors talked about innovative solutions to advance SDGs focused local planning

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Recommitting to Women’s Health 25 Years after the Beijing Platform for Action on Women: What Must Governments Do?

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This piece written by the leaders of WHO, UN Women and United Nations University respectively, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka , David M. Malone, advocates for a holistic agenda for women’s health, focused on Investing in women’s health, an imperative for building a more inclusive future.

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2.7 billion people have had no ‘social protection’ to cope with Covid-19 economic crisis

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A new report “Shelter from the Storm”, done in partnership with Development Pathways, reviewed government schemes used to inject additional money to help people, such as disability, unemployment, child, and elderly benefits, for 126 low and middle-income countries

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Laureates from Colombia and Qatar to receive UNESCO/Emir Jaber al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah Prize for Digital Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

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Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, has designated the laureates of the 2020-2021 UNESCO/Emir Jaber al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah Prize for Digital Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities:In the individual category, Eduardo Pérez from Colombia and In the organizational category, Mada- Assistive Technology Center Qatar

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The Value of Your Voice ( from Ashoka)

ACT NOW: New nationwide back to school campaign promotes safe COVID-19 behavior for the 2021 school year in Cambodia

The Rockefeller Foundation Recognizes Top 10 Visionaries Transforming the Future of Food Systems Across 8 Countries

OCEAN WISE STUDY: SYNTHETIC FIBERS ARE INVADING THE ARCTIC

OCEAN WISE STUDY: SYNTHETIC FIBERS ARE INVADING THE ARCTIC

Terra Carta’ – a charter that puts sustainability at the heart of the private sector.

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge (BLOOMBERG CITIES NETWORK/BLOOMBERG PHILANTROPIES)

A One Planet Summit for Biodiversity

EVENT FROM STIMSON CENTER: Beyond the Horizon: Outlining Risks and Opportunities in 2024 (stimson event)

CREATIVE FUTURES from FORD FOUNDATION

Greening the Blue report 2020

Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene: The human right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia (The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, RWI)

NEW REGULATIONS TO REDUCE WASTE PLASTIC DUMPING ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

RSF’s 2020 round-up: 50 journalists killed, two-thirds in countries “at peace”

Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) are releasing a landmark publication on illegal border pushbacks in the EU.

2020 RCE Awards for Innovative Projects on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

Asia-Pacific Mayors’ Academy Highlights Sustainable Urban Development During Opening Session

Recommitting to Women’s Health 25 Years after the Beijing Platform for Action on Women: What Must Governments Do?

2.7 billion people have had no ‘social protection’ to cope with Covid-19 economic crisis

Laureates from Colombia and Qatar to receive UNESCO/Emir Jaber al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah Prize for Digital Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

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