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Perspective: The Importance of Water Security for Ensuring Food Security, Good Nutrition, and Well-being

Elsevier,

Advances in Nutrition, Volume 12, July 2021

The authors demonstrate that water security is a powerful concept that is still in its early days in the nutrition literature. Water security also likely plays critical roles in outcomes upon which the public health community has broadly agreed as important: nutritional, mental, physical, and economic well-being. Increased attention to the benefits of ensuring water security and best practices for doing so are therefore needed
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture, Global

COVID-19 vaccine access in Africa: Global distribution, vaccine platforms, and challenges ahead

Elsevier, Immunity, Volume 54, 13 July 2021
Development COVID-19 vaccines in a record time has been an unprecedented global scientific achievement. However, the world has failed to ensure equitable access to what should have been a global public good. What options remain available to African countries to ensure immunization of their populations and ultimately overcome the pandemic?
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; Human rights, Global

Projections of temperature-attributable mortality in Europe: a time series analysis of 147 contiguous regions in 16 countries

Elsevier, The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 5, July 2021
Background: Europe has emerged as a major climate change hotspot, both in terms of an increase in seasonal averages and climate extremes. Projections of temperature-attributable mortality, however, have not been comprehensively reported for an extensive part of the continent. Therefore, we aim to estimate the future effect of climate change on temperature-attributable mortality across Europe. Methods: We did a time series analysis study.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 13: Climate action

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Health and population; Disaster risk reduction, Europe

Meeting well-below 2°C target would increase energy sector jobs globally

Elsevier, One Earth, Volume 4, 23 July 2021
To limit global warming to well-below 2°C (WB2C), fossil fuels must be replaced by low-carbon energy sources. Support for this transition is often dampened by the impact on fossil fuel jobs. Previous work shows that pro-climate polices could increase employment by 20 million net energy jobs, but these studies rely on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) jobs data, assumptions about jobs in non-OECD countries, and a single baseline assumption.
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 13: Climate action

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Employment decent work for all and social protection; Energy; Green economy, Global

CO<inf>2</inf> mitigation or removal: The optimal uses of biomass in energy system decarbonization

Elsevier, iScience, Volume 24, 23 July 2021
Owing to its versatility, biomass can be used for a range of CO2 mitigation and removal options. The recent adoption of end-of-century temperature targets at the global scale, along with mid-century economy-wide net zero emission targets in Europe, has boosted demand forecasts for this valuable resource. Given the limited nature of sustainable biomass supply, it is important to understand most efficient uses of biomass, both in terms of avoided CO2 emissions (i.e., substituted energy and economic services) and CO2 removal.
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 13: Climate action

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Energy; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Sustainable consumption and production, Europe

Financial viability of electric vehicle lithium-ion battery recycling

Elsevier,

iScience, Volume 24, 23 July 2021

Economically viable electric vehicle lithium-ion battery recycling is increasingly needed; however routes to profitability are still unclear. We present a comprehensive, holistic techno-economic model as a framework to directly compare recycling locations and processes, providing a key tool for recycling cost optimization in an international battery recycling economy. We show that recycling can be economically viable, with cost/profit ranging from (−21.43 - +21.91) $·kWh−1 but strongly depends on transport distances, wages, pack design and recycling method.

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SDG:

Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

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Health and population; Sustainable consumption and production; Sustainable transport; Finance; Electric Vehicles (EVs); Sustainable Lithium-ion Batteries, Global

Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change

Elsevier,

The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 5, July 2021

Record climate extremes are reducing urban liveability, compounding inequality, and threatening infrastructure. Adaptation measures that integrate technological, nature-based, and social solutions can provide multiple co-benefits to address complex socioecological issues in cities while increasing resilience to potential impacts. However, there remain many challenges to developing and implementing integrated solutions.

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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

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National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS); Sustainable cities and human settlements; Climate Change, Global

Racial Disparities in Acute Coronary Syndrome Management Within a Universal Healthcare Context: Insights From the AMI-OPTIMA Trial

Elsevier,

CJC Open, Volume 3, December 2021

The authors evaluated the quality and outcomes of in-hospital ACS management for White patients vs patients of colour, within a universal healthcare context.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Diversity and inclusion, Global

HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: scaling up for impact now and in the future

Elsevier,

The Lancet Public Health, Volume 6, July 2021

This Viewpoint supports SDG 3 by exploring the reasons behind inadequate PrEP uptake to date and offering considerations for effective scale up to meet 2030 UNAIDS targets.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, Global

HIV-associated Burkitt lymphoma: Outcomes from a US-UK collaborative analysis

Elsevier,

Blood Advances, Volume 5, 27 July 2021

We conducted a retrospective multicenter international analysis to identify prognostic factors, survival, and treatment-related outcomes in patients with HIV-BL contemporaneously treated. In this large collaborative effort, we analyzed a cohort of 249 patients with newly diagnosed HIV-BL treated at 35 centers in the United States and United Kingdom.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Data & Analytics; Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

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