Listen to latest 'Science Forward' episode: How far should science go?
Science needs bold new ideas to solve the world’s biggest problems. But as topics like gene editing or AI move ever faster, responsibility has to be built into research from the start, not added afterwards.
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ILO 2026 Report: Women in Business and Management: Scaling Success
The report finds that women’s representation at the top of enterprises has improved over the past decade. However, despite progress at the top, women remain under-represented in management overall, holding less than a third (30 per cent) of managerial positions globally.
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2026
The report emphasizes that the SDGs remain the world’s shared blueprint for peace, prosperity and sustainability and must be urgently returned to the centre of global decision-making. It identifies the priority actions needed to accelerate progress, including increased investment, strengthened international cooperation, expanded access to technology and data, a faster energy transition, greater gender equality, and renewed commitments to peace.
Emissions Gap Report 2026 - The point of re-turn
The point of return shows us how this could be done. The report looks at a ‘lowest possible’ 1.5°C overshoot scenario, in which peak warming is limited to 1.7–1.8°C by around the middle of the century, and carbon dioxide (CO2) is increasingly removed from the atmosphere and stored to bring temperatures back down by 2100.
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 2026 Edition of the UN CardThe 2026 edition of The UN Card brings you an update to 10 actions of the UN, that show in quantifiable terms how the daily work of UN colleagues affects the lives of people around the globe. |
 UN System ChartThe UN System Chart intends to provide a graphical reflection of the functional organization of the United Nations system and is for informational purposes only. |
 UN Efforts to Address Racism“Racism is an evil infecting countries and societies around the world – a deeply entrenched legacy of colonialism and enslavement. The results are devastating: opportunities stolen; dignity denied; rights violated; lives taken andlives destroyed.” said the Secretary-General António Guterres on 14 March 2024. See full message. |
 Translating the 2030 Agenda into national plans - a combined effortThere are indications that there has been a recent rise in the number of countries with some form of national development strategy or plan, aimed at implementing sustainable development across its economic, social and environmental dimensions. Read more |