WHO: Investments and myth-busting to improve hearing

mennessä CrNet Oy | maalis 4, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Over 400 million people globally need hearing aids, a study by the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals, but only 20 per cent get them due to lack of financial and human resources, as well as stigma. “Only one out of five people are actually accessing hearing...

EU secures results at WTO Ministerial but important work remains to reform global trade rulebook

mennessä CrNet Oy | maalis 4, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The European Commission was instrumental in brokering important outcomes at the 13th ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (MC13) that ended Friday in Abu Dhabi. After a week of intense engagement, EU negotiators secured important agreements on...

EU launches EUR 1 bn call for alternative fuels infrastructure projects

mennessä CrNet Oy | maalis 1, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The EU Commission launched a call for proposals Thursday under the Connecting Europe Facility for Transport Programme, making EUR 1 billion available to support the deployment of alternative fuels supply. This is the second phase of the Alternative Fuels...

UN issues global alert over teacher shortage

mennessä CrNet Oy | maalis 1, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The world urgently needs 44 million teachers by 2030 in order to make the Sustainable Development Goals a reality, a new report from UNESCO, the UN agency championing education, announced this week. The Global teacher shortage alert was issued at a meeting on Monday...

World must move beyond waste era and turn rubbish into resource: UN Report

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 29, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

With municipal waste set to rise by two thirds and its costs to almost double within a generation, only a drastic reduction in waste generation will secure a liveable and affordable future, according to a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report. Titled...

New Study Is First Step in Predicting Carbon Emissions in Agriculture

mennessä CrNet Oy | helmi 29, 2024 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

For the first time, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMN) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have demonstrated that it is possible to provide accurate, high-resolution predictions of carbon cycles in agroecosystems, which...