Tag «Preventing»

Preventing human trafficking by empowering aircraft cabin crew

Montréal and Geneva, 28 May 2018 – Aircraft cabin crew will now have better tools to help them prevent human trafficking on commercial flights after the launch today of new ICAO-OHCHR Guidelines for Training Cabin Crew on Identifying and Responding to Trafficking in Persons.   The new guidelines were unveiled this morning at an ICAO-OHCHR …

PREVENTING WORKPLACE STRESS MAKES GOOD BUSINESS SENSE

Tackling anxiety at work benefits employee health, increases their productivity   Dubai, UAE, 19 May, 2018: Stress is a recognized endemic for people across the world, but it has now become an overwhelming challenge facing the workforce and is having a crippling effect on health and productivity. As awareness increases amongst employers in the Middle East, …

IFPRI : Preventing an Ebola-related Food Crisis

October 21, 2014–As the Ebola outbreak continues to unfold, Shenggen Fan, director general of IFPRI, has released a press statement about the outbreak and the rising food crisis that is unfolding in West Africa. Press Statement: “While the health impacts of Ebola are devastating, this recent outbreak is triggering a food crisis that may persist …

Preventing Climate Change: The Size of the Energy Challenge

Washington, D.C.— In 2004 a very popular study aimed to address climate change by deploying wedges of different existing energy technologies or approaches. According to the study by Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala, each wedge would avoid one billion tons of carbon (1 GtC) emissions per year after 50 years. The study showed that, at …