🌍 Seven countries account for two-thirds of global gas flaring

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Seven countries account for two-thirds of global gas flaring According to the World Bank’s 2020 Global Gas Flaring Tracker, from 2019 to 2020, oil production declined by 8 percent, while gas flaring dropped by 5 percent. Gas flaring satellite data from 2020 reveals that Russia, Iraq, Iran, the United States, Algeria, Venezuela and Nigeria remain the top seven gas flaring countries for nine years running.  READ REPORT

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	Announcing the winners of the third World Bank Group and Financial Times blog writing competition In the context of COVID-19, we asked high school students, how we can help children learn, everywhere? More than 400 students entered the competition from 62 countries across every continent. Read the winning entries from India, Turkey, and the Netherlands! LEARN MORE

	India’s youth rise up to fix the country’s toxic air problem  Six college teams from across India—beating 1,500 peers in a national competition co-organized by the World Bank and Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi—became air-quality champions for the day and advocated innovative, practical solutions for a cleaner tomorrow, their tomorrow.  READ MORE

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Financing SDG2: Hunger and malnutrition –what will it take?  "COVID-19 is expected to have pushed an unprecedent 135 million into acute food insecurity, with 34 million at risk of famine. One estimate projects that over and above the 149 million stunted children today, an additional 9.3 million children will suffer from acute malnutrition, and 2.6 million more children will be stunted by 2022, rolling back years of progress." READ BLOG

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