Human progress at stake in post-Covid choices, says UN report
by Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent from on (#5BNGW)
Warning of future dogged by crises if recovery entrenches environmental problems and inequalities
Unless leaders make the right choices on recovering from the pandemic to avoid entrenching environmental problems and social inequalities, the world faces a future of lurching from crisis to crisis, reversing gains made in recent decades in health, education, social freedom and combating poverty, the UN has warned.
The unprecedented impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, combined with the environmental crises the world is facing, threaten to wind back human progress and development, leaving societies around the world vulnerable and more unequal, according to a new report from the UN development programme (UNDP).
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