Dire state of ocean’s health met with tide of pledges at UN Ocean Conference
The five-day UN Ocean Conference ended today with more than 150 countries collectively agreeing to scale up science-based and innovative actions to address the ocean emergency.
Guterres outlines four recommendations to help us all ‘Save Our Ocean’
At the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to commit and unite around the protection and preservation of our seas.
Global community ‘sets sail’ towards 2022 UN Ocean Conference
With only a few weeks remaining until the 2022 UN Ocean Conference kicks off in Lisbon, Portugal, on 27 June, preparations for the event are in full swing. On 17 May, UN Member States gathered at UN Headquarters for a briefing about this pivotal milestone aimed at turning the tide to save our ocean.
Age with rights – over 200 civil society organizations call for action
This year, as the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing approaches its 20-year milestone, there is an opportunity to generate renewed momentum for action...
Breakdown or breakthrough - top global thinkers weigh in on the UN plan to reboot multilateralism
In September 2021, top economists, global thought leaders and former Heads of State and Government came together for the second meeting of the High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs to discuss solutions to rampant inequalities, runaway climate change and other pressing challenges facing the world.
Shifting gears for sustainable transport
A farmer carrying her produce to the local market, a ship being loaded with medical supplies, a child seated on a school bus – the movement of people and goods from point A to point B, whether going from a village to a town or across a continent or ocean, shapes sustainable development.
UN World Data Forum closes with global agreement to improve data quality, new financing tools for data collection
The 2021 UN World Data Forum concluded on Wednesday with the announcement of the Bern Data Compact for the Decade of Action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a clear call for action and commitment to invest in data capacities and data partnerships to leave no one behind, build trust and fill data gaps to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
4 things you need to know about data for people and planet
As the world continues to recover from COVID-19, we need quality data more than ever to support the decisions we make to improve people’s lives. Understanding the data that surrounds us is understanding how to use data to get back on track to achieve the global goals.
The euro area’s economic pulse is coming back
The global pandemic has left deep scars on economies across the globe. This is certainly true for the euro area, which saw widespread lockdowns after the outbreak of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. As a response, a host of fiscal policies provided strong support across economies, and monetary policy has been maintaining a very accommodative stance.
Young or old, UN calls for ‘digital equality’ for all
Marking the International Day of Older Persons on 1. October, the United Nations is driving home the message that “digital equality” online, needs to be inclusive of everybody, regardless of age.
Universal access to sustainable energy will remain elusive without addressing inequalities
During the last decade, a greater share of the global population gained access to electricity than ever before...
World’s forests under threat from economic and environmental crises
Progress in protecting the world’s forests—and the people who rely on them—is at risk due to the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the escalating climate and biodiversity crises ...
Indigenous peoples continue to face barriers to realizing rights to lands and territories
The world’s indigenous peoples call 22 per cent of the global land surface home. They live in areas where you find about 80 per cent...
UN Panel: End financial abuses to save people and planet
Governments can finance critical action on extreme poverty, COVID-19 and the climate crisis and by recovering the billions of dollars lost...
Make 2021 a year of possibility and hope, UN chief tells General Assembly
Following an “annus horribilis” of death, disaster and despair, 2021 must be a year of transformation, Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN’s 193 Member States on Thursday.