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petersuber

The US just withdrew from #UNESCO.
state.gov/releases/office-of-t

The Trump State Dept put the rationale into one succinct paragraph:

"UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals [#SDGs], a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy. UNESCO’s decision to admit the “State of #Palestine” as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-#Israel rhetoric within the organization."

Under UNESCO rules, the withdrawal cannot take effect until the end of 2026.

PS: There's some history here. Reagan withdrew the US from UNESCO in December 1983. GW Bush rejoined in September 2002. Trump withdrew us in his first term, October 2017. Biden rejoined in July 2023.

www.state.govTechnical Difficulties
#Trump#USPol#USPolitics
ScienceOpen

'The Potential Impact of Peri-Urbanisation to the Continuity of Agricultural Practices Surrounding Malang City, Indonesia: A Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis' - an article in the @EDPSciences UN #SDGs Research Collection on #ScienceOpen:

➡️ scienceopen.com/document?vid=7

ScienceOpenThe Potential Impact of Peri-Urbanisation to the Continuity of Agricultural Practices Surrounding Malang City, Indonesia: A Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d11188536e121">Urbanisation has caused a significant increase in the sprawl of urban settlement. Some researchers introduced the phenomena of peri-urbanisation where the peri-urban areas have become an extension of urban system. Consequently, the existence of peri-urban agriculture is under the threat of land conversion, particularly into housing and other settlement-related services. This study is among the research that provides empirical evidence of the contestation between urban housing expansion and the presence of agricultural land. By using the case of Malang Regency in East Java Province where the peri-urbanisation of Malang City has taken place, this research utilises the spatial autocorrelation analysis to explain the spatial pattern of peri-urbanisation. We found that all variables describing the agricultural sector in Malang Regency exhibit positive spatial autocorrelation with clustering patterns. The distribution of areas with High-High, Low-Low, Low-High, and High-Low agricultural conditions facilitates a more equitable distribution of agricultural resources in Malang Regency as a hinterland and Malang City as the centre of activities. Distance to the city area (Malang City) is one factor that causes clusters to form in the southern or northern areas of Malang Regency. </p>
#PeriUrbanisation#UrbanPlanning#AgriculturalGeography
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Mayor Gamal Sherif

@johnzajac Thanks for the article. I'm not so interested in the tug-of-war within and between a two-party system. I'd like to hear more about how each candidate, across the spectrum, will act to advance the UN's #SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).

In my continent, it could look like a North American #GND (Green New Deal), where all people have healthy food, housing, clean water, time for self-care and family and civic life, and can actually #thrive.

Greg Johnson

Edward Polhill was an Anglican minister and Calvinistic tract writer. Here he offers a systematic theology, and reflects on 1 John 3:17. In order for one to have piety towards God, one will have a fountain of charity towards their neighbor.

Some on left may say this is a bit too exclusive. Some on right may object to the linkage as well— enemies ask me for help and I pray an awful lot!

How can you have a Fountain of Charity towards Mankind?

#christian#sdgs#dobetter
Matthew Rimmer

Thinking about Technology Transfer beyond Development
Author: Morag Goodwin
bristoluniversitypressdigital.
#climate #techtransfer #SDGs #development

Bristol University Press · 20: Thinking about Technology Transfer beyond DevelopmentDecolonizing or moving beyond the development paradigm is essential if we are to address climate change. Putting to one side the question of whether technology can actually save us, it is assumed here that a functioning regime of technology transfer is crucial to any attempt at planetary adaptation and mitigation of climate change. The development paradigm is a key structuring mechanism of international relations. How development is conceptualized and implemented as a regulatory practice, therefore, shapes how we understand obligations and duties between states and between the Global North and Global South. As such, it conditions the space within which we understand obligations to share technology.
Dan Stowell

I am so tired of institutions equating "sustanability" with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They don't cover all of sustainability, and many of them ARE NOT sustainability. The clue is in the name: they're development goals. Here's a history lesson: the UN had "Millenium Development Goals". They broadened them to add some sustainability. #SDGs

Matthew Rimmer

Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of UNAids, said that if the funding permanently disappeared, the world faced an additional 6 million HIV infections and 4 million Aids-related deaths by 2029.
theguardian.com/global-develop
“It is a deadly funding crisis, a global response knocked totally off course. This is a pandemic, and pandemics have no borders,” she said in an interview with the Guardian at the UN international development funding summit this week in Seville, Spain.
#accessmeds #UNAIDS #globalhealth #SDGs v @glynmoody

The Guardian · UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deathsBy Tracy McVeigh
Edenz India

Global patent data highlights tech disparities, with the US, China, and EU leading innovation. But developing nations face barriers to participation. The piece calls for global R&D coalitions, open-access hubs, IP democratization, and SDG-linked tech policies to bridge gaps and ensure equitable, co-created progress.

#SDGs#PolicyForChange#GlobalCooperation
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