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Gavin Wilson, in an opinion piece on Huffington Post, answers the question on what it will take to implement to Global Goals. 'Essentially, knowledge, financing and partnership. The first exists in abundance,' he writes. 'The problem is how to finance these solutions and how to come together in partnership to implement them speedily and effectively when and where they are needed'...
Bruce Campbell in an opinion piece on Huffington Post writes, 'The SDGs are complex because the challenges facing our planet (feeding 9.6 billion people from shrinking resources in a climate-extreme world for a start) are equally complicated... Millions of farmers are already seeing the benefits from crop insurance but only 20 per cent of farmers in India use crop insurance'...
'This week, more than 150 world leaders will come to New York for the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 where an ambitious new agenda for sustainable development will be adopted -- the Sustainable Development Goals', writes Helen Clark in an opinion piece on Huffington Post.
'Flood preparedness for Canadian cities is, on average, mediocre,' said Blair Feltmate, Intact chair of the climate adaptation project at the University of Waterloo and author of the study according to Huffington Post. The cities scored relatively well on some factors but Feltmate was surprised at how little planning cities have done to ensure access to essential goods and services...
'The Nepal quake is a warning bell for SAARC to get its act together to set up an effective disaster-response mechanism which can minimise and mitigate impact in an already disaster-prone region,' writes Jhinuk Chowdhury on Huffington Post India...
According to an opinion piece on Huffington Post by Margareta Wahlstrom, Head of UNISDR and the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sendai agreement will guide efforts to reduce mortality and economic losses over the next ten to 15 years,...
'The learnings of these last ten years must feed into the post-2015 development agenda starting with the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in March in Sendai, Japan, which will adopt an updated version of the Hyogo Framework for Action,' write Nicolas Hulot and Loren Legarda in an op-ed on Huffington Post ahead of French President Francois Hollande's visit to the Philippines...
'The pope's visit to the Philippines and his solidarity with the poor of Tacloban should speak volumes to world leaders and government ministers tasked with adopting a series of new global agreements this year which will form the basis for tackling poverty over the next 15 to 20 years,' writes Margareta Wahlström in an opinion piece in the Huffington Post....
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