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• The baseline forecast envisions a 5.2% contraction in global GDP in 2020, the deepest recession in decades, and longer-lasting impacts such as lower investment, an erosion of human capital through lost work and schooling, and potential ruptures of global trade and supply linkages may be expected.
• A much greater threat to ambition for the post-2020 biodiversity framework would be a failure to connect the loss of biodiversity to the other major global development challenges such as food security, human health, production and consumption patterns.
• 90% of large organisations globally will have adopted RPA in some form by 2022 as they look to digitally empower critical business processes through resilience and scalability, while recalibrating human labour and manual effort.
• Over the next tens to hundreds of thousands of years, geological processes in places like Southeast Asia will once again decrease CO 2 levels in the atmosphere - a pace that is frustratingly slow when humanity is facing the impact of current global warming.
• 90% of large organizations globally will have adopted RPA in some form by 2022 as they look to digitally empower critical business processes through resilience and scalability, while recalibrating human labor and manual effort.
• A third of the global population - 3.5 billion people - could be living in temperatures inhospitable to human life in the next 50 years because of climate change.
• Reducing methane emissions associated with human activity by 50% over the next 30 years could mitigate global temperature change by 0.2 °C by 2050, a significant step towards keeping temperature increase below 2 °C.
• In 2024, NASA will send astronauts on the Artemis III mission to lunar orbit where they will transfer to a commercial human landing system for an expedition to the lunar surface.
• Tonix expects small animal and non-human primate data from safety studies of TNX - 1800 in COVID-19 models to measure safety and the immune response to the SARS-COV-2 Spike protein in the fourth quarter of 2020.
• Tonix expects small animal and non-human primate data from safety studies of TNX-1800 in COVID-19 models to measure safety and the immune response to the SARS-COV-2 Spike protein in the fourth quarter of 2020.
• NASA plans to send dozens of new instruments and technology experiments to study the Moon beginning next year, followed by human missions beginning in 2024 all as part of the Artemis program.
• In 2015, China - which has the second highest rate of human rabies deaths in the world - pledged to meet the World Health Organization's (WHO) goal to reach zero human deaths from canine rabies by 2030.
• Covid-19 will further negatively impact national incomes in the following years because of lower investment, an erosion of human capital through lost work and schooling, and fragmentation of global trade and supply linkages.
• Tesla founder Elon Musk tried to bridge the gap between humans and technology with his tech startup Neuralink, which plans to build implants that connect human brains with computer interfaces via AI.
• The World Bank forecasts a 5.2% contraction in global GDP in 2020, the deepest global recession in decades, which are expected to leave lasting scars through lower investment, an erosion of human capital through lost work and schooling, and fragmentation of global trade and supply linkages.
• Rapid urbanization currently taking place in Africa will drive further mosquito evolution, causing a shift toward human-biting in many large cities by 2050.
• The human capital management (HCM) solutions market and it is poised to grow by USD 8.97 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 8% during the forecast period.
• The German Federal Government plans to pass a supply chain act by the beginning of 2021 that will create binding regulations requiring companies to adhere to human rights and environmental protections.
• The Democratic Alliance calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa and Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders to prevent, on a major scale, the erosion of human rights in Zimbabwe and any further decline in reputation and investment risk to the entire region.
• A new UN drive to increase global protected areas could lead to severe human rights violations and cause irreversible social harm if not backed by much stronger guarantees of the rights of indigenous people and other local communities.
• While the next Change' e mission will be about returning lunar samples to Earth, NASA hopes that data from VIPER will inform the next phase of human exploration, due to kick off in 2024.
• The Emirates has already launched two satellites and sent an astronaut to the International Space Station and it has vowed to build a human settlement on Mars by 2117.
• The secondary effects of climate change, meaning the likely responses of human societies to rapidly changing climatic conditions, including the increased probability for nuclear conflict, are an even greater threat to the continuity of human civilization in the 21st century.

Last updated: 04 October 2020