Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13 or Global Goal 13) is to limit and adapt to climate change. It is one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The official mission statement of this goal is to "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts". [1]
SDG 13 has five targets which are to be achieved by 2030. They cover a wide range of issues surrounding climate action. The first three targets are outcome targets. The first target is to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity towards climate change-related disasters. The second target is to integrate climate change measures into policies ...
Vaccination has been one of the most impactful public health interventions of the past century. Since the foundation of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1974, vaccines have provided the single greatest contribution to improving health outcomes globally, particularly among children and infants.
Jeffrey David Sachs (/ s æ k s / SAKS; born November 5, 1954) [4] is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, [5] [6] where he was former director of The Earth Institute. He worked on the topics of sustainable development and economic development. [7]
Member states emphasized the need to tackle disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation when setting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 (to be achieved by 2030), particularly in light of an insufficient focus on risk reduction and resilience in the original Millennium Development Goals. For example, Indicator 13.1.2 of ...
A former Israeli soldier on vacation in Brazil fled the country suddenly after a case was brought against him there alleging he was responsible for war crimes while serving in Gaza.
The procedure "did not go as planned," charging documents say. The father allegedly told deputies he used "a utility tool" for the circumcision.
He doesn’t want as many banks subject to CFPB oversight, according to that agenda, and wants bank agencies to review "the cumulative impact of their regulations." A spokesperson for Sen. Tim ...