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Mobile protected areas needed to protect biodiversity in the high seas

January 16, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Climate Change, high seas, high seas biodiversity, Marine Protected Areas, Marine Science, United Nations

In this week’s issue of Science, marine scientists make the case for the United Nations to include mobile marine protected areas in the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, now being updated since its last signing in 1982.

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Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss Climate Change Impacts on Land, Wildfires and Solutions

January 15, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Australia, Brazil, California, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, climate adaptation, Climate Change, Climate Change and Land, climate mitigation, CO2, Desertification, Drought, Economy, Emissions, Environment, Food, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Forests, fossil fuel emissions, Fossil Fuels, Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, IPCC, LAND, New Jersey, NJ, plants, Rainforests, Rutgers, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Soils, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Trees, UN, United Nations, Wildfires

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U.S. protections for constitutional rights falling behind global peers

January 14, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Affordable Care Act (ACA), Canada, Civil Right, Colombia, Discrimination, Equal Rights Amendment, Equality, Equality and human rights, European Union, Gender, Gender Equality, Gender Identity, Germany, Health, health access, Law, law and social policy, Mexico, Public Health, Race And Ethnicity, Religion, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, South Africa, Spain, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States

New research from the WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (WORLD) shows that the United States is falling behind its global peers when it comes to guarantees for key constitutional rights. Researchers identified key gaps in the U.S. including guarantees of the right to health, gender equality, and rights for persons with disabilities.

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U.N. climate report shows governments, businesses lagging

November 26, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability, United Nations

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The End of Antibiotics?

November 18, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, CDC, Council On Foreign Relations, Global Health, Gram Negative Bacteria, Health Policy, Infectious Desease, Medicine, Public Health, Superbugs, United Nations, WHO, World Bank, World Health Organization

Less than a century after the discovery of antibiotics, the world is at risk of entering an era in which the life-saving drugs no longer work.

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Rutgers Expert Can Discuss Proposed High Seas Biodiversity Treaty

October 16, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Greenhouse Gases, Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, IPCC, Ocean, Oceans, Pollution, Shellfish, Shipping, Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere, Sustainability, UN, United Nations

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UN Climate Action Summit Opens Opportunities for Action on Infectious Disease Impact

September 23, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Idsa, Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases Society Of America, UN climate change conference, United Nations

As government, business, and community leaders from around the world gather in New York today for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit, attention to the immediate and international threats posed by climate change to human health will be critical to achieving the summit’s goals of advancing from words to urgent action.

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