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#SDGs

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Matthew Rimmer

I made a submission this week to the Treasury of the Australian Government on the right to repair in the age of Tesla papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf #auslaw #auspol #righttorepair #consumerlaw #competition #IP #product #stewardship #SDGs #cars #Tesla

The Australian Treasurer Hon. Jim Chalmers has been promising to expand the right to repair - it will be interesting to see what emerges in this policy space.

Picture - ‘Tesla Cybertruck with Shattered Windows’, Wikimedia, CC-BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

PIK_climate

Although more researchers use #AI, its full potential for achieving global sustainability goals #SDGs remains largely untapped. A team of scientists now analysed 792 peer-reviewed articles and found a critical gap: only a few studies combine advanced AI applications with deep #sustainability expertise.
To truly harness AI for sustainability, a more integrated research agenda is needed, the authors conclude.

➡️ Article in Nature Sustainability: nature.com/articles/s41893-025

NatureArtificial intelligence in sustainable development research - Nature SustainabilityThe use of artificial intelligence (AI) in sustainability-related scholarly work, such as Sustainable Development Goal research, is growing. An analysis now finds that few studies actually use AI to address normative or transformative dimensions of sustainability science, limiting the potential of relevant AI applications.
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petersuber

The US just withdrew from #UNESCO.
state.gov/releases/office-of-t

The Trump State Dept put the rationale into one succinct paragraph:

"UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals [#SDGs], a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy. UNESCO’s decision to admit the “State of #Palestine” as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-#Israel rhetoric within the organization."

Under UNESCO rules, the withdrawal cannot take effect until the end of 2026.

PS: There's some history here. Reagan withdrew the US from UNESCO in December 1983. GW Bush rejoined in September 2002. Trump withdrew us in his first term, October 2017. Biden rejoined in July 2023.

www.state.govTechnical Difficulties
#Trump#USPol#USPolitics
ScienceOpen

'The Potential Impact of Peri-Urbanisation to the Continuity of Agricultural Practices Surrounding Malang City, Indonesia: A Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis' - an article in the @EDPSciences UN #SDGs Research Collection on #ScienceOpen:

➡️ scienceopen.com/document?vid=7

ScienceOpenThe Potential Impact of Peri-Urbanisation to the Continuity of Agricultural Practices Surrounding Malang City, Indonesia: A Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d11188536e121">Urbanisation has caused a significant increase in the sprawl of urban settlement. Some researchers introduced the phenomena of peri-urbanisation where the peri-urban areas have become an extension of urban system. Consequently, the existence of peri-urban agriculture is under the threat of land conversion, particularly into housing and other settlement-related services. This study is among the research that provides empirical evidence of the contestation between urban housing expansion and the presence of agricultural land. By using the case of Malang Regency in East Java Province where the peri-urbanisation of Malang City has taken place, this research utilises the spatial autocorrelation analysis to explain the spatial pattern of peri-urbanisation. We found that all variables describing the agricultural sector in Malang Regency exhibit positive spatial autocorrelation with clustering patterns. The distribution of areas with High-High, Low-Low, Low-High, and High-Low agricultural conditions facilitates a more equitable distribution of agricultural resources in Malang Regency as a hinterland and Malang City as the centre of activities. Distance to the city area (Malang City) is one factor that causes clusters to form in the southern or northern areas of Malang Regency. </p>
#PeriUrbanisation#UrbanPlanning#AgriculturalGeography
Matthew Rimmer

Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of UNAids, said that if the funding permanently disappeared, the world faced an additional 6 million HIV infections and 4 million Aids-related deaths by 2029.
theguardian.com/global-develop
“It is a deadly funding crisis, a global response knocked totally off course. This is a pandemic, and pandemics have no borders,” she said in an interview with the Guardian at the UN international development funding summit this week in Seville, Spain.
#accessmeds #UNAIDS #globalhealth #SDGs v @glynmoody

The Guardian · UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deathsBy Tracy McVeigh
Edenz India

Global patent data highlights tech disparities, with the US, China, and EU leading innovation. But developing nations face barriers to participation. The piece calls for global R&D coalitions, open-access hubs, IP democratization, and SDG-linked tech policies to bridge gaps and ensure equitable, co-created progress.

#SDGs#PolicyForChange#GlobalCooperation
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