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The health and wellbeing of children now and in the future depends on overcoming new challenges that are escalating at such speed as to threaten the progress and successes of the past two decades in child health. The climate emergency is rapidly undermining the future survival of all species, and the likelihood of a world in which all children enjoy their right to health appears increasingly out…

The Zero Draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework highlights three key longterm Goals for 2050 which are especially relevant in ensuring sustainable, diverse and resilient food systems, food and nutrition security. These are draft Goals 1, 3 and 4(i). In this paper, we propose minor revisions to both Goals 3 and 4. The Zero Draft also highlights two key action-oriented Targets for…

Scaling innovations is one of the biggest challenges facing research and development organizations. The international community invests significant resources in the design and testing of innovations to overcome key challenges such as food insecurity, malnutrition, and environmental degradation. Many of those innovations start as a bright idea that is then developed in a laboratory, to be tested…

It is timely to take stock of global environmental governance as the world enters a new year and a new decade. In this volume, the Earth Negotiations Bulletin team reflects on the successes, shortcomings, and overall trends of 2019. We also look ahead, with optimism that 2020 holds promise to regain the momentum recently lost.In 2019 scientists were truth-tellers. Over the course of the year,…

Resources, including minerals and metals, underpin the world’s economies for almost all sectors, providing crucial raw materials for their industrial processes. Despite efforts to decouple economies from resource use towards a circular economy, demand for extractive resources will continue to grow on the back of emerging economies. The report maps existing international governance frameworks and…

Sustainable Life on Land, the fifteenth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 15), calls for the protection, restoration and promotion of the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. Among others, it requires societies to sustainably manage forests, halt and reverse land degradation, combat desertification, and halt biodiversity loss. Despite the fact that protection of terrestrial ecosystems is…