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- Business and Policy: now is the time to reach across the divide
- 4/18/2024 8:48:26 AM
- Why is policy engagement essential for businesses to achieve their sustainability goals? How should ambitious businesses work most effectively with governments? How can public-private cooperation more rapidly unlock investment and scale markets? Here are some of my reflections from my first six months at WBCSD on why policy engagement is becoming essential for ambitious …
- Multilateral development banks must supercharge nature-positive finance
- 4/17/2024 7:31:04 AM
- In advance of this year’s World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, WWF’s Global Finance Practice Lead, Aaron Vermeulen, calls on governments and central banks gathering in Washington D.C.
- Statement by Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director, following her two-day visit to the Middle-East
- 4/17/2024 7:28:48 AM
- “Today I completed a two-day visit to the Middle East, where escalating violence continues to take an unconscionable toll on the lives of children. “On the first day in Israel, I met with some of the many Israeli families who experienced unspeakable violence on 7 October, including children taken hostage, the killing of loved ones, and the loss of homes and communities.
- Children disproportionately wearing the scars of the war in Gaza - Geneva Palais briefing note
- 4/16/2024 7:25:22 AM
- I left Gaza yesterday after spending two-weeks there. It was my second mission into Gaza this year. By far, what struck me most about this mission was the number of wounded children. Not just in the hospitals, but on the streets.
- Governor Hochul Announces Ribbon Cutting of $20 Million Mixed-Use Development Project in Downtown Niagara Falls
- 4/15/2024 11:43:45 AM
- View Pictures of Cambria Hotel Niagara Falls Here Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the ribbon cutting for The Cambria Hotel Niagara Falls, part of a more than $20 million mixed-use development project.
- EPA Announces Final Rule to Reduce Exposure to Ethylene Oxide in Puerto Rico and Across the Nation
- 4/15/2024 11:22:56 AM
- Several years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hosted a community meeting for residents of Salinas, Puerto Rico to share information about health risks from the chemical ethylene oxide (EtO), which was being emitted from a local contract sterilization facility.
- Penultimate UN talks on global plastic pollution treaty will make or break the treaty: WWF
- 4/15/2024 8:36:42 AM
- • WWF analysis shows a majority of states support ambitious and legally-binding global rules, even as a small minority try to delay and upend the treaty’s proceedings.
- Kodiak Properties Launches Innovative Initiative to Address Affordable Housing Crisis in Ohio
- 4/14/2024 9:33:24 AM
- Kodiak Properties, a locally owned real estate investment company in Youngstown, is proud to announce the launch of a groundbreaking initiative aimed at alleviating the affordable housing crisis facing communities across Ohio.
- Governor Hochul Announces Completion of Newly Expanded $8 Million Community Center in Troy
- 4/11/2024 12:11:57 PM
- Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the completion of an $8 million expansion to the Commission for Economic Opportunity’s Community Resource Center in Troy.
- Federal Court Enters Consent Decree Against Philips Respironics Following Recall of Certain Sleep Therapy Machines
- 4/11/2024 7:59:26 AM
- The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Philips RS North America LLC (“Philips Respironics”), Respironics California LLC, and Philips Holding USA Inc., and Roy Jakobs, CEO of Royal Philips, along with several other individual defendants named in the decree.
- Sudan’s Year of War: One in Two Children in the Line of Fire
- 4/11/2024 7:53:19 AM
- More than 10 million children in Sudan have been in an active warzone and less than five kilometers (3 miles) away from gunfire, shelling and other deadly violence over the past year of war, said Save the Children.
- Empowering Policymakers and More: A Dive into Media and Information Literacy Online Course
- 4/11/2024 7:47:12 AM
- In today’s digital era, our interaction with information has undergone a profound transformation. To navigate this dynamic landscape effectively, policymakers are invited to embark on a journey of discovery through the Media and Information Literacy online course.
- Open Letter to the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action
- 4/10/2024 9:38:44 AM
- The climate crisis is an existential crisis for the world. Already, communities globally are buckling under the pressure of climate impacts that affect the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable people and ecosystems.
- Government Of Canada Selects GroupM’s Government Practice Powered By EssenceMediacom As New Media Agency Of Record
- 4/10/2024 4:20:35 AM
- The Government of Canada has selected GroupM’s Government Practice Powered by EssenceMediacom as their new media agency of record. The new contract with Public Services and Procurement Canada covers a full suite of services across media planning and strategy, buying, as well as ad serving and trafficking, ad verification and reporting.
- Solomon Islands’ New Digital Payment System to Increase Access to Banking, Support Economy
- 4/9/2024 3:39:52 AM
- Solomon Islands will benefit from a new digital payment platform launched, which will make banking easier, contribute to the digitalization of the economy, and help drive inclusive sustainable economic development.
- Governor Hochul Announces $10 Million Annual Investment to Expand Research at SUNY State-Operated Campuses
- 4/8/2024 1:13:10 PM
- Fact Sheet Outlining Campus Investments Available Here Governor Kathy Hochul today announced how 14 State University of New York campuses are investing nearly $10 million in annual state funding to expand their research capacity.
- $20 billion from EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund builds local climate capacity
- 4/8/2024 5:43:22 AM
- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has awarded $20 billion to green banks, financial institutions, and nonprofit organizations for projects combating climate change in disadvantaged communities.
- Outsider Author Demands Citizen Responsibility to Challenge Conspiracy-Mongering Themes in Democracy and Media in “Stop Pretending, America!”
- 4/5/2024 12:04:57 PM
- “Stop Pretending, America!,” a provocative, new book by political outsider Philip J. Gimson, provides readers the tools they need to challenge political leaders claiming the 2020 election was stolen to finally come forward with evidence or stop trying to change a historical fact.
- State Health Investigation Links Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak to Municipal Water Supply
- 4/4/2024 11:27:19 AM
- Recently, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) announced that both epidemiologic and laboratory data point to areas of a municipal water system as the source of a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in a northeastern Minnesota city that began in April of 2023.
- 8 in 10 people support cut in plastic production ahead of Global Plastics Treaty talks in Ottawa
- 4/4/2024 7:58:24 AM
- Eight out of 10 people support cutting plastic production revealed a new Greenpeace International report ahead of the fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC4) meeting for a Global Plastics Treaty to be held in Ottawa, Canada this month.