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30 de abr. de 2023 · The Future of Jobs Report 2023 explores how jobs and skills will evolve over the next five years. This fourth edition of the series continues the analysis of employer expectations to provide new insights on how socio-economic and technology trends will shape the workplace of the futu
3 de dic. de 2020 · In 2014, governments, companies, NGOs and Indigenous groups committed to 10 goals to protect trees, under the New York Declaration on Forests. The goals intended to halve deforestation by 2020, and stop it by 2030. But assessments have concluded we're actually further from stopping deforestation now than we were six years ago.
8 de jun. de 2016 · 4. The electric brake. Victor Ochoa was a Mexican inventor and revolutionary who patented the electric brake in 1907. It uses magnetic attraction to make it easier for trains to slow down. Ochoa is also known for inventing the ochoaplane, an adjustable wrench, and a pen and pencil clip, among other inventions. 5.
16 de sept. de 2015 · Here are 10 key facts about the SDGs: The idea came from the Rio+20 Summit in 2012 – the largest summit in UN history. Columbia and Guatemala proposed goals to follow on from the Millennium Development Goals, set up in 2000 to halve poverty by 2015. Poverty, as measured by living on less than $1.25 a day, has halved.
17 de jun. de 2021 · China’s trade with Latin America and the Caribbean grew 26-fold between 2000 and 2020. It may be increasingly challenging to further develop LAC value chains and benefit from the regional market.
17 de oct. de 2023 · Here we outline the complexities of overtourism and the possible measures that can be taken to address the problem. The term ‘overtourism’ has re-emerged as tourism recovery has surged around the globe. But already in 2019, angst over excessive tourism growth was so high that the UN World Tourism Organization called for “such growth to be ...
21 de may. de 2024 · The Travel & Tourism Development Index (TTDI) 2024 is the second edition of an index that evolved from the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) series, a flagship index of the World Economic Forum that has been in production since 2007. The TTDI is part of the Forum’s broader work with industry and government stakeholders to build a ...
3 de ene. de 2022 · According to the UN, more than 3 billion people around the world – 40% of the global population – cannot afford a healthy diet. By 2050 the global population is expected to grow by an additional 2 billion, so unless we make changes that’s a grim prospect. With more people to feed, we want to avoid converting more land for farming.
20 de jun. de 2023 · Global results. The Global Gender Gap score in 2023 for all 146 countries included in this edition stands at 68.4% closed. Considering the constant sample of 145 countries covered in the 2022 and 2023 editions, the overall score changed from 68.1% to 68.4%, an improvement of 0.3 percentage points compared to last year’s edition.
16 de dic. de 2022 · Guyana is another tree-canopy-rich country, which sits on the northern coast of South America surrounded by Amazon rainforest. Having already achieved net zero emissions, the country is aiming for a further 70% cut in emissions by 2030. However, the country became the world’s newest oil producer in 2019, which could challenge its status as a ...
