News in Brief 6 June 2024
- Dozens feared dead in Israeli airstrike on UNRWA school in Gaza
- 181 million under-5s experiences severe child food poverty
- WFP expands emergency response to avert famine in war-torn Sudan
The potentially transformative effects of Artificial Intelligence have been brought into focus by the UN in recent days, following a major conference in Geneva: the AI For Global Good Summit.
Restoring land, halting desertification and building resilience against drought are the focus of World Environment Day on 5 June.
A medical epidemiologist working with the Indian Ocean Commission’s One Health initiative says that the number of ministers from small island States attending this week’s SIDS4 Conference in Antigua and Barbuda shows there is real “political commitment” to take urgent action.
‘Keep it in the ground!' is the rallying cry, when it comes to fossil fuels. However, in Dominica there is a clean, renewable, subterranean resource that the government is very keen to get out of the ground: heat.