Humans Your browser does not support the audio element. [New] The new IMO 2020 regulation, bringing the sulphur cap in fuel oil for ships down from 3.50% to 0.50%, is expected to bring significant benefits for human health and the environment. By the year 2070, Earth's habitable climate zone will have shifted so significantly that up to 3 billion people are projected to be left outside the climate conditions that have served humanity well over the past 6,000 years. While the first human mission to land on Mars will likely take place in the next two decades, it will probably be more like 50-100 years before substantial numbers of people have moved to Mars to live in self-sustaining towns. Human life expectancy in developed countries has risen steadily at the astonishing rate of 3 months per year over the past 160 years, with a similar rate of increase predicted until at least 2030. In the coming years, the European Commission will attempt to fill the leadership vacuum on global issues, seeking to hold together the remnants of multilateralism and global governance in areas such as trade, human rights and the advancement of science. In the last 60 years, the atmospheric environmental capacity of major Chinese city clusters decreased by 5 to 10%, and the self-purification capacity of the atmosphere has decreased, adding risk to human health. The risk is especially serious for companies like American semiconductor manufacturer Nvidia, which provides products used in facial recognition technology that could be used by the Chinese government to enable human rights violations. The first international legally-binding treaty to preserve the high seas is expected to be adopted this year aiming to protect large areas of the world's ocean from human activities. More than 500 land mammal species are on the brink of extinction and likely to be lost over the next 20 years, according to scientists who have warned that the sixth mass extinction of wildlife on Earth is accelerating, and may herald the collapse of human civilisation. The current and projected rates of biodiversity loss, as measured by the Biodiversity Intactness Index and Extinction Rate, constitute the sixth major extinction event in the history of life on Earth and the first as a direct consequence of human activities. Foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in the United States bulk-power system and added that a successful attack on our bulk-power system would present significant risks to our economy, human health and safety. Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases in humans in the past decade - and risks starting new pandemics as animal markets have done. Johnson & Johnson plans to begin coronavirus human tests in the fall and have its first doses available for emergency use by early 2021. Johnson & Johnson is surging after announcing that it has accelerated the timeline for human testing of an experimental vaccine for COVID-19, and that it could be ready for emergency use in 2021. China could use the health crisis as a justification to expand its already vast surveillance system, which human rights bodies have described as dystopian. By 2070, much of the world's population is likely to live in climate conditions that are warmer than conditions deemed suitable for human life to flourish. One million natural species are threatened with extinction, many in a few decades, as three-quarters of the land-based environment on earth and about 66% of the marine environment are impacted by human activity. Researchers in the US are currently developing a new pill that would prevent coronavirus from copying itself, with human trials expected to begin later this year. NASA plans to land the first woman and the next man on the moon in 2024, and set up a continued human presence on and around the moon in eight years so they can use it to send astronauts to Mars. This year will shape the US court system for generations, with a potential adverse impact on human rights depending on the outcome of the 2020 elections. The world has until 2030 to cut human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in half to maintain a 50% chance of avoiding the worst effects of climate change. The Mexican Government is currently working - through the Ministry of the Interior - on the preparation of the 2019-2024 National Human Rights Program, which is expected to include actions related to business and human rights. See full forecast Last updated: 05 July 2020 Hi, Would you like a quick online demo of our service from an experienced member of our team? Yes No
