Once per week, MSF sets up its mobile medical clinic under trees in the village of Kier, on the banks of the Pibor River, in South Sudan. (Frederic NOY/COSMOS)

🏥 ‘We are at a crucial moment in the history of mankind’. What does the climate emergency mean to MSF’s new director and how should the emergency medical organisation face its own responsibilities?

🇺🇳 The climate threat. The UN Security Council is the latest of multilateral forums to address how global warming is affecting peace and stability around the world, with most member states wanting to place the topic in the agenda.

🌾 Agribusiness interests over human rights. The special rapporteur on the right to food has said the global food summit at the end of the year is prioritising industrial food production models without taking into account its negative impacts on human rights.

Turkey has set an ambitious target to cover a third of its territory with forests by 2023. With 2.1 billion hectares forested in the past 18 years, the country now ranks first in Europe and sixth worldwide in forestation work according to a report by FAO from last year. The world has lost a net area of 178 million hectares of forest since 1990, the document says.

📌 1-5 March | World Ocean Summit. High-level speakers discuss online how to create a sustainable oceans economy.

📌 2 March | Mobility, migration and climate change. An overview of the environmental change migration nexus with Professor Etienne Piguet, a renowned specialist in the topic who has authored important work for the UNHRC and the IPCC.