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#MakeItRight: A campaign by UN Lebanon and TBWA/Raad on World Environment Day
Every year the world celebrates World Environment Day on 5 June, a day dedicated to focusing efforts of the governments, businesses and citizens on pressing environmental issues.
The Power of Partnerships
New diseases have been emerging at the unprecedented rate of one a year for the last two decades, and this trend is certain to continue. We look at a small fraction of past pandemics and outbreaks, and the importance of solidarity, international cooperation and partnerships to prevent, detect and respond to these global challenges, while we tackle the immense challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
World Ocean Week: 8 to 12 June 2020
Ocean action is critical in safeguarding the health of our planet and our common future. On this year’s World Environment Day (5 June) to World Oceans Days (8 June), there are numerous ways to get involved – here are 10 things to watch out for during World Ocean Week 2020.
EMBARGOED until 19 May, 00:01 CET: Over 150 global corporations urge world leaders for net-zero recovery from COVID-19
Press release: Under strict embargo until 00:01 CET, 19 May 2020 The following is a joint press release by the Science Based Targets initiative, the UN Global Compact, and the We Mean Business coalition Over [...]
United Nations SDG Media Compact hits 100-member mark
Growing alliance of news and entertainment companies brings focus on socio-economic impact of COVID-19 crisis to its two-billion-strong audience.
2020 UN Ocean Conference Postponed
Media Advisory Efforts to scale up ocean action to continue NEW YORK, 15 April 2020 — In light of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and growing public health concerns, the 2020 United Nations Ocean [...]
UN DESA Policy briefs offer recommendations for avoiding debt crisis and using digital government tools to help confront COVID-19
Commodity-dependent developing countries face risk of economic crisis even before a direct hit from Covid-19 New York, 15 April—Many commodity-dependent economies in Africa and Latin America will likely face an economic crisis before they [...]
60 International Agencies Urge Rapid, Coordinated Response as Pandemic Threatens to Destabilize Poor Countries’ Finances
NEW YORK, 9 April 2020 – Governments must take immediate steps to prevent a potentially devastating debt crisis and address the economic and financial havoc wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic – says a new [...]
COP26 Postponed
The COP26 UN climate change conference set to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed due to COVID-19. Dates for a rescheduled conference in 2021, hosted in Glasgow by the UK in partnership with Italy, will be set out in due course following further discussion with parties.
New WHO recommendations to prevent tuberculosis aim to save millions of lives
New World Health Organization (WHO) guidance will help countries accelerate efforts to stop people with tuberculosis (TB) infection becoming sick with TB by giving them preventive treatment. A quarter of the world‘s population is [...]