SDGs

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and partners arranged the delivery of biosecurity equipment, face masks and food kits to indigenous communities in Cauca, Colombia.
UNDP Colombia/Jurany Carabani

‘Foundational and necessary change’ needed to heal post-COVID world

24 November 2020
Global

With the COVID-19 pandemic precipitating one of the world’s worst health, socioeconomic and humanitarian crises in over a century, the UN chief told a high-level discussion on Tuesday to seize the opportunity “to make real, foundational, and necessary change”. 

A night Earth observation photograph taken from the International Space Station, as it passes over Japan. Such images provide important information on atmospheric and ground-level conditions.
Scott Kelly/NASA

Backed by space technology, Asia-Pacific countries power sustainable development

18 November 2020
Asia Pacific

Asian and Pacific nations are leveraging space technology and geospatial information to respond to challenges on the ground, including in their efforts to contain the spread and mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new United Nations report. 

A park in Brooklyn, New York, has marked out circles in order to enforce social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson

WHO’s Tedros says it is time for the world to heal, pushing back on ‘misguided nationalism’ 

9 November 2020
Global

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told Member States on Monday that efforts to tackle climate change and poverty had been set back by a lack of global unity since major agreements were struck five years ago, and welcomed the chance to work with the presumptive new US administration of president-elect Joe Biden.