The last year has been anything but normal for the global environmental movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
COVID-19 has scotched more than a half-dozen high-level summits, where, in non-pandemic times, government officials, international organisations, scientists and activists would have gathered in person to work out policies and plans for challenges facing people and the planet. Important discussions still took place online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While some headline-grabbing conferences were postponed, COVID-19 hasn\u2019t slowed the work of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said the organization\u2019s head as it looks ahead to 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCOVID-19 underscores the urgency of our work and forced us to be even more diligent in combating threats to the Earth,\u201d said Inger Andersen, UNEP\u2019s Executive Director. \u201cThe pandemic is a symptom of humanity\u2019s fractured relationship with the natural world \u2013 and we don\u2019t have long to repair that bond.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Earth is facing an unprecedented set of threats, including climate change, rampant pollution and mass extinction of wildlife. In 2020, UNEP staff worked hard, often behind the scenes, to address those challenges, said Andersen. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last year has been anything but normal for the global environmental movement. COVID-19 has scotched more than a half-dozen high-level summits, where, in non-pandemic times, government officials, international organisations,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}