Around 6 million primary and secondary students are at risk of learning loss due to the extended closure of the educational institutions in the country amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study report revealed Monday.
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Decade-Old pledge to Biodiversity Misses Almost All Targets
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 2020 (IPS) – The coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed the lives of over one million people worldwide and destabilized the global economy, also upended the UN’s ambitious socio-economic goals, including the eradication of…
Plastic polluter: Brazil recycles ‘almost nothing’
Standing among sacks of used supermarket shopping bags, soft drink bottles and detergent containers, Evelin Marcele is scornful of Brazil’s efforts to recycle plastic waste. “Almost nothing,” said the 40-year-old director of CoopFuturo, a sorting center for recyclable material in…