Zambia Launches 2020 Human Development Report
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Lusaka, 5th March 2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which includes a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint.
The Report, which was virtually launched in Zambia today, lays out a stark choice for countries to take urgent and bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the environment and the natural world, or humanity’s progress will stall. The report argues that we are in an unprecedented moment in the history of our planet, that scientists term “Anthropocene,” a new geological epoch: the age of humans. For the first time in our long 300,000-year relationship, instead of the planet shaping humans, human activity is shaping the plane
UNDP’s Global Human Development Report launched in Sri Lanka
January, 8, 2021
UNDP commits support to define and operationalize a national development plan underpinned by Green Development thinking
Report notes it is time for all countries to redesign their paths to progress by fully accounting for dangerous pressures humans impose on the planet
The Global Human Development Report (HDR) was launched this morning by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka bringing together a wide range of high-level participation from the Government, Public and Private sector, Development partners and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).
The 30
th anniversary edition of the HDR 2020, titled ‘
Bold steps required to ease planetary pressure – UNDP Report
The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world. Unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which includes a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint.
The 30th anniversary edition of the Human Development Report, ‘The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene’, lays out a stark choice for world leaders – take bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the environment and the natural world, or humanity’s progress will stall.
The Edition
Maldives’ choice for next frontier of human development
Joint opinion editorial by UNDP Maldives Resident Representative Akiko Fujii, Minister of Economic Development Fayyaz Ismail, and Minister of Fisheries, Marine Resources, and Agriculture Zaha Waheed
18 December 2020, MVT 09:40
According to this year’s UNDP Human Development Report (HDR), Maldives has the highest material footprint per person in the South Asia region, which at 14.5 tonnes even surpasses the world average of 12.3 tonnes per person. PHOTO/UNDP
18 December 2020, MVT 09:40
This year’s UNDP Human Development Report (HDR) celebrates thirty years since its birth in 1990. In the middle of the disruption and confusion of the COVID pandemic, when everyone is wondering what the ‘new normal’ might be, what better year could we have for celebrating our 30th anniversary HDR?
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UNDP: Kingdom’s development balances growth, conservation
Thu, 17 December 2020
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) issued its Human Development Report 2020 on December 16, suggesting that Cambodia could become a model country to demonstrate a sustainable balance between the parallel processes of development and conservation.
The 400-page report described most countries as currently reaching a critical tipping point where they must redesign their pathways to progress in order to ease the dangerous pressures humans put on the planet.
“Cambodia could be an example of how human development can go hand in hand with environmental sustainability. With new technologies, promoting investment in the green economy, including expansion of environment-related infrastructure such as renewable energy, green transportation, climate-smart agriculture and community forest expansion – all of these offer opportunities for Cambodia to achieve higher levels of human development with inc