The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2019 offers timely warnings about a range of macroeconomic challenges facing policymakers as they aim to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Read more at: https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wesp2019_en.pdf
Food and Agricultural Organization
Concerning humanitarian crisis and the importance of agriculture
The war in Ukraine has pushed 15.7 million people to be in need of humanitarian assistance and forced massive population displacement. Over 5.1 million people have fled the...
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved three new FAO-designed projects in Argentina, Guatemala and Sudan for a total amount of $158.6 million aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening resilience to climate change, and combating deforestation.
FAO...
The United Nations has achieved a significant feat by completing the safe transfer of oil from the FSO Safer supertanker located off Yemen's Red Sea coast. This successful operation has effectively thwarted the immediate threat of a potential massive...
Unknown and also unacknowledged by Colombo and the nation’s strategic and diplomatic community, there is a lesson for Sri Lanka in the recent UN General Assembly (UNGA) vote on the situation in Myanmar.
The UNGA voted 191-1 with 35 abstentions,...
“Nuclear weapons are nonsense. Three-quarters of a century later, we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945”, he urged during the solemn event at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park attended by...
by Robert Hunziker
Image by Matthias Heyde.
I recently attended a family affair in Upstate NY and was informed that climate change articles, like this one, are too negative, causing close relatives to shutdown and going so far as to ignore...
49th session of the Human Rights CouncilUrgent debate on the situation of human rights in Ukraine stemming from the Russian aggressionStatement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
3 March 2022
Distinguished President,Excellencies,Colleagues and Friends,
One week ago, the Russian...
On 9 October 2020, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations’ World Food Programme. In the citation for the award, the Norwegian Nobel Committee pointed to the ‘link between hunger and armed conflict’, noting that ‘war...
UNCTAD is pleased to announce the launch of ISAR Honours 2019. As its previous edition in 2018, “ISAR Honours” aims to raise awareness and facilitate dissemination of national and international best practices on sustainability...
