HUMANITARIAN ACTION DURING EMERGENCIES : THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC

In many countries, especially those with ongoing humanitarian crises, the Covid 19 outbreak has created significant additional pressure on the already overburdened social service delivery systems, acerbating the vulnerabilities of affected population.  This virus was first reported in China in December 2019 and so far it has spread as a bush fire to 184 countries and territories.

UNIVERSITIES FORM GLOBAL NETWORK ON CLIMATE CHANGE

The global climate network is an alliance of influential think tanks  and research institutes in different countries that collaborate on research into climate change policy and whose aim is to help address the political blockages to ambitious action to tackle global warming. The aim of the coordination network  is to vision a prosperous and secure world in which green houses gas emissions could be reduced to a level that is no longer harmful the climate system.