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☆ 'Losing our best': activists killed in war seen as blow to Ukraine's future
  + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Dan Peleschuk | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
The European Union offered Kyiv candidate status last year and made improving governance and fighting corruption key requirements for membership negotiations. He was killed fighting near Izium in the east of the county last June aged 24. "Misha was definitely another type of activist, who was ready to act in many different ways," said professor Yuliya Bidenko, who taught Alekseyenko political science. The mass flight of millions of refugees after Russia's invasion has also dealt a blow to Ukraine's potential political class, Bidenko added. "People like this are just extremely necessary for us after the war," Davydenko said of Tsakhniv.
☆ Powerful storm snaps communications network in Myanmar's Rakhine
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/3] Strong winds and heavy rainfall is seen at ThekayPyin Rohingya camp, as Cyclone Mocha approaches, in Sittwe, Rakhine, Myanmar, May 14, 2023 in this screengrab taken from a handout video. Some 400,000 people were evacuated in Myanmar and Bangladesh ahead of Cyclone Mocha making landfall, as authorities and aid agencies scrambled to avoid heavy casualties. "All communication is still down and people are in trouble because all the roofs are gone," said Khine Thu Kha, a spokesman for the Arakan Army, which control swathes of Rakhine state. Benjamin Small, a consultant with the United Nations Development Programme, said it was hard to understand the scale of destruction because of ruptured communications in Rakhine. "The storm itself is a trigger for more problems as heavy rains continue and landslides and flooding tend to follow."
☆ Kemal Dervis, Who Eased Turkey’s Economic Crisis, Dies at 74
  + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Neil Genzlinger | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Kemal Dervis, an economist who was instrumental in leading his native Turkey out of economic crisis early in this century, and who later became the first person to lead the United Nations Development Program from a country that had received developmental aid from the program, died on Sunday in Bethesda, Md. The Brookings Institution, where Mr. Dervis had been the director and vice president of the global economy and development program and was a nonresident distinguished fellow, confirmed his death. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency said he died of an unspecified illness. Mr. Dervis had been working in various posts for the World Bank for two decades when, in early 2001, prices in Turkey began skyrocketing and the currency, the lira, plunged in value. The meltdown was fast-moving, and Mr. Dervis, at the time a vice president of the World Bank, was seen as a savior.
☆ Startups want to use blockchain technology to improve the carbon-credit markets. Here's why big names in the climate industry are warming up to the idea.
  + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( April Joyner | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Startups including Toucan and Topl are building blockchain tools for issuing carbon credits. Several companies, including Toucan, Return, Topl, and Open Forest Protocol, are now aiming to improve the transparency and reliability of carbon credits by coupling climate initiatives with blockchain technology. Erin MurphyThe need for greater transparency in carbon marketsCompanies buy carbon credits to offset the amount of greenhouse-gas emissions their business activity generates. Aureus EarthThe potential benefits of credits on the blockchainThat's where blockchain technology comes in, Murphy and other proponents said. Despite the flaws of that initial attempt, it showed ample market demand for blockchain-based carbon credits, Hoopes said.
☆ In pioneering workshops, U.S. trains Cuban entrepreneurs to do business
  + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Dave Sherwood | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
[1/3] Cuban entrepreneurs Maria Puga and Ana Torres pose for a photo at their atelier in Havana, Cuba, April 3, 2023. "Cuba's state-run economy has traditionally not delivered, and recently has delivered even less," Ziff said in an interview. The United States, which says it operates "transparently" in Cuba, is not alone in seeking to promote Cuba's fledgling private sector. Diplomat Ziff said the United States was seeking ways to ease the burden of U.S. sanctions on private business but in a way that would not inadvertently benefit the Cuban government. "The biggest impediment to doing business in Cuba is the Cuban government," Ziff said.
☆ Donors pledge more than $9 billion for Pakistan’s flood recovery
  + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
Officials from some 40 countries as well as private donors and international financial institutions gathered at a meeting in Geneva as Islamabad sought funds to cover around half of a recovery bill amounting to $16.3 billion. The meeting’s co-hosts, the United Nations and Pakistan’s government, said more than $9 billion had been pledged from bilateral and multilateral partners. Among the donors were the Islamic Development Bank ($4.2 billion), the World Bank ($2 billion), Saudi Arabia ($1 billion), as well as the European Union and China, Pakistan Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said. “Today has truly been a day which gives us great hope,” said Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan’s minister of state for foreign affairs. Millions of homes, tens of thousands of schools as well as thousands of kilometers of roads and railways still need to be rebuilt, the UN says.
☆ Why three robot sisters could be the friendly face of AI
  + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Nadia Leigh-Hewitson | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
The key to winning over a skeptical public could be a family of robot “sisters.”Sophia, Grace and Desdemona are humanoid robots, each programmed with sophisticated AI. However, their AI “brains” were engineered by Ben Goertzel, former chief scientist at the company, and now CEO of blockchain-based AI company SingularityNET. The robot will never get bored with it.”Are we already living in a robot future? Giving people the opportunity to interact with relatable robots could help humanize AI, and go some way to improving its image. This is one of the reasons that people respond so well to humanoid robots.”
☆ The private sector is in a position to make a sustainable future possible. IBM has the resources to help.
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Ibm With Insider Studios | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
As a tech company dedicated to using innovative technologies to address environmental challenges, IBM is working to provide this support to local and regional organizations across the globe. The model that IBM is developing helps invest in equitable and long-term solutions to environmental injustice. IBM has consistently tackled the most pressing challenges of the day by building technologies to help operationalize sustainability — including solutions designed to support developing economies transitioning to a clean energy future. That's why IBM is now working to give these local and regional organizations support from engineers, technology, and climate experts to help scale these projects and reach their environmental goals. This is a model that all companies — and particularly those that have tech solutions and vast resources — should consider employing.
☆ UNDP chief: Biggest disappointment is we are not investing enough in one another
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Tania Bryer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailUNDP chief: Biggest disappointment is we are not investing enough in one anotherAhead of COP27, United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Achim Steiner, tells CNBC's Tania Bryer that wealthier countries need to re-commit to helping the Global South in funding renewables to accelerate the energy transition.
☆ Boko Haram: How Ngarannam community attacked by terror group was rebuilt
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Stephanie Busari | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
It was the night in 2015 that Boko Haram militants attacked Ngarannam town in Borno State, northeast Nigeria. Ngarannam, a village of around 3,000 people, became desolate after the attack as displaced residents fled to Borno’s capital Maiduguri and surrounding areas. Her husband Bulama is the community leader for Ngarannam, which afforded them a certain privilege in the town. ‘Rebuilding Ngarannam ‘The project was conceived and led by Mohamed Yahaya, the UNDP’s Resident Representative for Nigeria. Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo meets some residents of Ngarannam community.
☆ Climate activists throwing food at paintings could save the planet
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Brian Kateman | Brian Kateman Is A Co-Founder | The President Of The | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
On Sunday, two climate activists hurled mashed potatoes at “Les Meules,” a valuable Claude Monet painting in a German museum. If climate activists focused only on symbols directly related to what is damaging the planet — like a pipeline or an oil refinery — then it may not have gotten quite the same buzz. If climate activists focused only on symbols directly related to what is damaging the planet — like a pipeline or an oil refinery — then it may not have gotten quite the same buzz. In order to shift the public’s conception of acceptable climate policies, it’s essential the media cover the issue in a big way. “Climate change is no longer just a science story,” said Max Boykoff, lead project investigator for the observatory.
☆ Climate reparations may be ethical, but they aren't the best fix, climatologist says
  + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( Natalie Tham | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
Fida Hussain | Afp | Getty ImagesCalls for climate reparations for poorer countries hit hard by climate change are growing louder after catastrophic floods in Pakistan. "[Climate reparations are] the ethical thing to do," said Friederike Otto, a climatologist at the University of Oxford, "but a more equitable world is much better able to solve the complex crises we deal with. However, though climate reparations appear to be a relatively straightforward solution, their implementation isn't, Otto said. At the same time, for climate reparations to be successful, there needs to be an official classification of weather and climate events and natural hazards, she added. Andrew King, a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, is another proponent of climate reparations.
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