Ali Mushtaq Butt

Exploring own curiosities & sharing along the way. Business builder, Danish diplomat in South Asia 🇩🇰🇧🇩 🇵🇰 🇮🇳 . Previously in 🇺🇸🇩🇪. Views personal.

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Seagrass plays a critical role in maintaining healthy ecosystems, yet every 30 minutes, a football field worth of seagrass is lost.

Explore their benefits & why timely, ambitious & coordinated #GenerationRestoration actions are key to curbing their loss. https://t.co/fovZkdJRfs

[McKinsey Global Institute @McKinsey_MGI]

Demographics have worked in Asia’s favor, but the region is aging fast. 👴

By 2050, Advanced Asia and China – “aged Asia” – could have 250 million fewer working-age people. There will be new workers in other places, but these have far lower productivity https://t.co/jpWFuzBX8v

[Denmark MFA 🇩🇰 @DanishMFA]

Next year, Denmark will open new embassies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova and Malaysia. And a previous decision to close the embassy in Tanzania has been shelved. The Danish Government sets ambitious goals for Denmark's position in the world.

🔗 https://t.co/dp7HVLWFGX

[Denmark MFA 🇩🇰 @DanishMFA]

Regeringen åbner næste år nye ambassader i Bosnien-Hercegovina 🇧🇦 Moldova 🇲🇩 og Malaysia 🇲🇾. Samtidig vil ambassaden i Tanzania 🇹🇿 ikke blive lukket, som det ellers tidligere var besluttet. Det har @larsloekke i dag orienteret Udenrigspolitisk Nævn om 👇

https://t.co/rP49FfZxph

[UN OCHA Sudan @UNOCHA_Sudan]

7⃣months of intense fighting in #Sudan
About 6.2M people have been displaced within and outside Sudan, including 3M children, making it the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

Read more ⬇7⃣months of intense fighting in #Sudan
About 6.2M people have been displaced within and outside Sudan, including 3M children, making it the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

Read more ⬇7⃣months of intense fighting in #Sudan
About 6.2M people have been displaced within and outside Sudan, including 3M children, making it the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

Read more ⬇7⃣months of intense fighting in #Sudan
About 6.2M people have been displaced within and outside Sudan, including 3M children, making it the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

Read more ⬇7⃣months of intense fighting in #Sudan
About 6.2M people have been displaced within and outside Sudan, including 3M children, making it the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

Read more ⬇7⃣months of intense fighting in #Sudan
About 6.2M people have been displaced within and outside Sudan, including 3M children, making it the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

Read more ⬇️

[GeekWire @geekwire]

Trending: Inaugural report from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy reveals promising climate tech solutions https://t.co/OcvQbG4GPG

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Plastics are fueling the climate crisis.

By 2040, up to 19% of global greenhouse gas emissions will stem from plastics.

To meet the goal of 1.5° global temperature rise & to #BeatPlasticPollution, we need a plastics treaty that reduces plastic production.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The world is failing to get a grip on the climate crisis.

Global ambition stagnated over the past year & national plans are strikingly misaligned with the science.

#COP28 must be the place to urgently close the climate ambition gap. https://t.co/8ckVNyR0Ar

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

An important daily reminder.

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

After 3 weeks of emptying a bulk reservoir of fuel - @UNRWA trucks have run out of fuel.

We will not be able to receive aid coming through the Rafah crossing tomorrow.

The humanitarian operation in📍#GazaStrip will grind to a halt within 48 hours as no fuel is allowed to enter.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

We cannot address the climate catastrophe without tackling its root cause: fossil fuel dependence.

Leaders must #ActNow to save humanity from the worst impacts of climate chaos & profit from the extraordinary benefits of renewable energy.

[McKinsey Global Institute @McKinsey_MGI]

📱 Consumer electronics
🏭 Industrial electronics
🚘 Electric vehicles
💻 Semiconductors

Four areas where Asia punches above its weight in global GDP.

Dive deep into the world’s tech manufacturing hub, Asia: https://t.co/jpWFuzBX8v

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

"If there is a hell on earth today, its name is northern Gaza." - @UNOCHA

[Lars Løkke Rasmussen @larsloekke]

75 mio ekstra til nødhjælp i Gaza. Brug for humanitær pause for at få nødhjælpen ind og fordelt til civilbefolkningen.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

If you don't choose your own beliefs, others will choose them for you.

[Denmark MFA 🇩🇰 @DanishMFA]

.@DanJoergensen: “🇩🇰 fully supports EU call for rapid, safe & unhindered humanitarian access & aid to reach those in need through necessary measures incl. humanitarian corridors & pauses. Today humanitarian conference for civilians in Gaza. Important Initiative, @EmmanuelMacron.”

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Agrifood systems have hidden costs. We all pay them, but not equally.

For the first time, @FAO calculated the environmental, health and social hidden costs in agrifood systems for 154 countries.

Read more to learn about the #TrueCostofFood: https://t.co/r2QMFEmlmJ

[Visual Capitalist @VisualCap]

Ranked: The Foods With the Largest Environmental Impact 🌽

https://t.co/q4Ea19MpVI

[Empire: World History @EmpirePodUK]

🚨 New series 🚨

Empires of Iran

Persia was the first great superpower; at its peak it stretched from India in the east to the Mediterranean in the west, from the borders of Russia in the north to the Gulf of Oman in the south. It laid the foundation for empires of the future.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

No one remembers your worst moments quite as much as you do.