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Youth climate activists are to advise the UN secretary general on the climate emergency as part of a new effort to bring young people into decision-making and planning on the crisis.
Seven young people, aged between 18 and 28, will take on roles to “provide perspectives, ideas and solutions” to the secretary general, António Guterres, aimed at helping to scale up global climate action in the recovery from the coronavirus crisis and ahead of a crunch summit next year on the climate.
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Thursday this week will mark six months since the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic “public health emergency of international concern”.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Monday night, “This is the sixth time a global health emergency has been declared under the International Health Regulations, but it is easily the most severe,” saying that cases have roughly doubled in the last six weeks, as the pandemic “continues to accelerate.”
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