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”. 

The UN chief underscores the importance of rebooting economies to put them firmly on the path to a sustainable future, particularly in developing countries, like Nepal (pictured).
© World Bank/Aisha Faquir

COVID disruption will ‘pale in comparison’ if world fails to act on climate change, SDGs

12 November 2020
Global

The fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “go hand in hand”, the UN chief told a major development bank conference on Thursday.

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.