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BMJ: Climate action: the best gift for global health Renee N. Salas, emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, affiliated faculty at Harvard Global Health Institute, and Yerby fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of…

U.N. Dispatch: This is How European Countries Rank in their Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals Joanne Lu, freelance journalist, discusses findings from the recently released Europe Sustainable Development Goal Report, which ranks European countries’ progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Lu writes, “Even within a wealthy region like…

UNICEF: Children in monetary poor households and COVID-19: Technical Note (December 2020). UNICEF: Child poverty will remain above pre-COVID levels for at least five years in high-income countries — UNICEF (12/11). UNICEF: UNICEF appeals for a record US$2.5 billion to respond to children’s humanitarian needs and the COVID-19 pandemic in…

KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of December 14, 2020 Data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 are included in the tracker (12/14). A KFF-curated recap of pandemic-related news from last week is available here. Additional KFF COVID-19 resources on the global situation, as well as those focused on…

AP: Trump signs order to ‘rebrand’ U.S. foreign assistance “President Donald Trump has signed an order requiring that all U.S. foreign assistance be ‘rebranded’ to ensure that recipients know that American taxpayers have paid for it. Trump on Thursday directed the 22 federal agencies that distribute U.S. aid abroad to…

Bloomberg: Nigeria Plans to Approve Covid-19 Vaccine Early Next Year “Nigeria expects to license by April one of the vaccines under development globally for Covid-19, the West African nation’s drugs regulator said. … Africa’s most-populous country also expects to benefit from the World Health Organization-backed Covax initiative, which is working…

AP: Ethiopia returns refugees who fled Tigray fighting, to alarm (Anna, 12/11). AP: India’s pandemic recovery plan could cost air quality goals (Ghosal, 12/11). Devex: U.S. election marks return to ‘climate responsibility,’ says Paris Agreement architect (Abrahams, 12/10). Devex: Q&A: Investing now in preparation for COVID-19’s successor (12/11). Forbes: A…

Africa Report: Africa: Climate change and sustainable development must be a two-way street Oluwaseun Oguntuase, scholar at the Centre for Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development at Lagos State University in Nigeria (12/10). Devex: Opinion: Does Africa need a new narrative on migration? Maureen Achieng, chief of mission of IOM to…

Project Syndicate: Supply Chains and Demand Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations “…The question of how best to increase supply-chain resilience is now front and center. Future outbreaks of infectious diseases could prove far more disruptive [on supply chains than COVID-19]. … The COVID-19 crisis has revealed…