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Finding cures for major illnesses at risk due to biodiversity loss, UN warns
Finding treatments for cancer, thinning bone disease and kidney failure are at risk due to biodiversity loss, a ground-breaking new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) book cautions. “Sustaining Life” – the work of over 100 experts supported by UNEP, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – is the most far-reaching book on this subject to date. The volume’s authors warn that threats to land and marine-based life forms, reduce the chances of creating such medical treatments as safer ... |
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Better managing of risks can reduce work-related accidents, says ILO
The United Nations labour agency is calling for better management risks in the workplace in an effort to reduce the over two million deaths each year resulting from work-related accidents and ill health. In a new report published on the occasion of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, observed this Monday (28 April), the International Labour Organization (ILO) outlined management techniques that identify, anticipate and assess hazards and risks and take action to control and reduce them. “Millions of work related accidents, injury and disease annually take their toll on human lives, businesses, ... |
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