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WATCH: Why risk-informed development makes communities more resilient

In the last 20 years, we've seen over 1.3 million people killed and more than 4 billion affected by disasters that have cost at least US$2 trillion. It is clear that we will never eradicate poverty or achieve sustainable development goals so long as disasters continue to set back progress. But it doesn't have to be this way. While weak development choices expose people to disasters, good, risk-informed development makes people and communities more resilient.

2018-04-22T12:11:23-04:0016 Mar 2015|Disaster risk reduction, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, News|

Top insurers call for urgent action to reduce risk from natural disasters

Top insurers from around the world have called on governments, Saturday, to step up global efforts to build resilience against natural disasters, highlighting that average economic losses from disasters in the last decade amounted to around US $190 billion annually, while average insured losses were at about US $60 billion.

2018-04-22T12:11:26-04:0015 Mar 2015|Disaster risk reduction, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, News|

Time to rethink Financing for Development, say Latin American and Caribbean ministers and UN experts

Latin American and Caribbean Ministers and senior United Nations representatives called for a rethinking of the international financial architecture to put inclusion at the centre of the new post-2015 development agenda, in the context of a meeting on financing for development held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.

2018-04-22T12:11:32-04:0013 Mar 2015|Financing for Development, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, News, Sustainable Development Agenda|

Equality means business: UN urges private sector to help close gender gap

Although businesses were not part of the discussions at the historic Beijing Women’s Conference 20 years ago, it is now clear that achieving gender equality will require the concerted efforts of the private sector, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told participants at the annual Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event at UN Headquarters.

2018-04-22T12:11:41-04:0010 Mar 2015|Goal 5: Gender equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, News|

Gender Equality and Earth’s Future

Opinion piece by Mary Robinson, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Amina J. Mohammed, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser and Assistant-Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning.

2018-04-22T12:11:46-04:0009 Mar 2015|Financing for Development, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 5: Gender equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, News|

What is the real impact of disasters?

As countries prepare to meet at the Third Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in less than two weeks, UN officials tell us why strengthening our resilience is essential if we want to achieve sustainable development.

2018-04-22T12:12:02-04:0002 Mar 2015|Disaster risk reduction, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 9: industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, News|

Agriculture in Caribbean vital to economic growth, sustainable development, says UN official

The head of the United Nations agriculture agency underlined yesterday the huge importance of agriculture and farming to countries of the Caribbean during an address to Heads of Government at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit in the Bahamas.

2020-03-04T13:56:15-05:0027 Feb 2015|Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, News|

Natural disasters in Asia and Pacific impact some 80 million people, new UN study shows

When leaders and decision makers from across Asia and the Pacific gather next month in Japan to discuss how to reduce disaster risks, their top priority will be to build resilience in a region that saw some 80 million people affected and nearly $60 billion in economic losses incurred by natural disasters last year.

2018-04-22T12:12:08-04:0025 Feb 2015|Disaster risk reduction, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth|

Private sector, ‘care economy’ will be key engines of job creation for next 5 years – UN report

Private sector services, such as business and administrative services, and real estate, as well as related industries, will employ more than a third of the global workforce over the next five years, according to new data released by the United Nations labour agency.

2020-03-04T13:56:37-05:0022 Jan 2015|Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, News|

UN study predicts rising global unemployment due to slower growth, inequality, turbulence

An extra 10 million people worldwide are likely to be unemployed by 2019, a new United Nations report has said today, pointing to slower growth, widening inequalities and economic turbulence as reasons behind the trend.

2020-03-04T13:56:40-05:0020 Jan 2015|Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, News|

Ban calls on Global Compact to help end poverty, transform lives, protect planet

Addressing the United Nations Global Compact board meeting this afternoon, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said everyone held a stake in ending poverty, transforming people’s lives and protecting the planet.

2018-04-22T12:12:59-04:0009 Jan 2015|Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Secretary-General|
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