Inequality Making World More Prone To Pandemics: UN Report

Inequality Making World More Prone To Pandemics: UN Report

The report called on world leaders to increase pandemic preparedness by investing in "social protection mechanisms" within their countries while also tackling global inequality, including through debt restructuring for developing countries.

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A glimpse of the world during COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Photo: Unsplash A new global report warns that inequality is increasing the world’s vulnerability to pandemics, making them more deadly, more costly and longer lasting – and where you live, could determine how badly impacted you are. The study, released on Monday, ahead of G20 meetings taking place later this month in Johannesburg, South Africa, shows that unequal access to housing, health…

Surviving the next pandemic could depend on where you live

A new global report warns that inequality is increasing the world’s vulnerability to pandemics, making them more deadly, more costly and longer lasting – and where you live, could determine how badly impacted you are.

Inequality fuels deadly Pandemic cycle, warns UN-backed report

The report urged leaders to bolster pandemic preparedness through national "social protection mechanisms" and address global disparities via debt restructuring

UN report warns adaptation finance gap puts lives at risk

A report from the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) has warned that a yawning gap in adaptation finance for developing countries is putting lives, livelihoods and entire economies at risk…