On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization first described COVID-19 as a pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, lockdowns, quarantines, curfews, distancing measures and the cancellation of community activities...

The poor nutritional status of the Palestinian population is worrying, with a high prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies among groups for whom good nutrition is particularly important, such as children under...

This report presents the main conclusions of the first-ever IPCC-IPBES co-sponsored workshop (December 2020), which explored diverse facets of the interaction between climate and biodiversity: from current trends...

Protected areas (PAs) and other effective areas-based conservation measures (OECMs) are a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation that concurrently provide multiple co-benefits for achievement of the Sustainable Development...

Released by the CBD on 12 July 2021, this first draft of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework proposes four goals for 2050 in line with the vision of humanity “living in harmony...

This report sets out science-based principles on natural resource management informed by the research of UNEP's International Resource Panel (IRP).

This report presents the case for why we all must throw our weight behind a global restoration effort. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence (2021), it...

This report documents and explores the early economic impacts of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on households and businesses in Vietnam, leveraging unique information collected by the World Bank COVID-19 household and firm...

In this manuscript, we propose a Machine Learning approach to predict the magnitude of future stock price variations for individual companies of the S&P 500 index. Sets of lexicons are...

In recent years, machine learning algorithms have been successfully employed to leverage the potential of identifying hidden patterns of financial markets behavior, and, consequently, have...