The COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging labour markets around the world. Global trends such as globalisation, demographic shifts, climate change and technology have already brought profound shifts to the world of work, and the pandemic has accelerated changes.
Excellencies,
Colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Greetings to all.
Excellencies,
Colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
First, thank you Your Excellency Tleuberdi, for inviting me to this meeting.
NEW YORK 17 September 2020 – Reiterating their call for a global stimulus package for Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Foreign Ministers met virtually at the General Assembly this week to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically hampered efforts for more vulnerable countries to meet their development goals.
Excellencies,
Colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
We are all aware that LDCs, LLDCs and African countries are especially hard hit by COVID-19 and the world-wide recession. The poorest, women and girls and people with disabilities are among the people suffering the most.
This workshop marks the finalization of the Malawi Sustainable Energy Investment Study. The project was launched in February 2019 to articulate how Malawi can attract and generate the required investment to achieve SDG7, and leapfrog to clean energy, with a view to contributing to the objectives of the Paris Agreement and holding the increase in the global average temperature to “well below 2°C”.
Excellencies,
Distinguished delegates,
Ladies and gentlemen,
We are convening here in a crucially important meeting during a critically important week.
PRAIA, 25 July 2019 – Government representatives from small islands and the United Nations are meeting in Cabo Verde over the next two days to strengthen coordination of efforts to localize the SAMOA Pathway* and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in small island developing States (SIDS).
BEIJING, 31 May 2019 – Without urgent and enhanced action, the world’s forty-seven least developed countries will not achieve global sustainable energy targets by 2030. This was the backdrop to discussions which took place over the last two days at a United Nations conference on scaling-up energy access and finance in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Beijing.
