SDGs

World Bank/ Yuri Kozyrev

'Collective amnesia’ over causes of global financial crash - human rights expert

29 November 2018
Global

10 years on, governments are experiencing collective amnesia towards of one of the biggest factors behind the 2008 global financial crash –the housing crisis – which has not been addressed and is only getting worse, said Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, in a statement on Thursday.

IOM/Amanda Nero

COP24: UN climate change conference, what’s at stake and what you need to know

29 November 2018
Global

As global temperatures continue to rise, climate action is lagging and the window of opportunity is closing. On Sunday, the United Nations will kick off critical negotiations on how to address the problem collectively and urgently, during a two-week climate change conference in Katowice, Poland, known as “COP24”.

UNCTAD

Africa Forum aims to boost business, reduce costs, help countries trade out of poverty

28 November 2018
Africa

Better transport, logistics and foreign investment are essential to smooth the way for the African continent to reduce trade hurdles, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

‘Global trust’ declining, ‘our world needs stepped-up global leadership’

28 November 2018
Global

On the eve of the G20 international forum in Argentina, and ahead of next week’s COP24 climate conference in Katowice, Poland, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for global leadership to be stepped up, “at a time of declining global trust.”

UNDP Eurasia

‘At risk’ Mediterranean forests make ‘vital contributions’ to development

27 November 2018
Europe

Between 2010 and 2015, forests around the Mediterranean have expanded by two per cent, but that has come at the price of significant degradation and increasing vulnerability to climate change, population pressures, wildfires and water scarcity, warned a new UN report launched on Tuesday.

UN Spokesperson

UN launches new fund to advance sustainable development in Aral Sea region

27 November 2018
Asia Pacific

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged countries to fund a new initiative designed to reduce vulnerability, advance sustainable development and create decent living conditions for millions of people living around the Aral Sea, whose basin encompasses Uzbekistan, and six other countries in Central Asia.

World Bank/Lundrim Aliu

Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere break another record, UN report shows

22 November 2018
Global

Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to a report issued on Thursday by the United Nations weather agency, which reveals that there is no sign of reversal of this trend, responsible for climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification and extreme weather.

FAO

With field schools in Kenya, UN agriculture agency teaches techniques to combat drought

21 November 2018
Africa

To strengthen resilience in the Horn of Africa against natural hazards like drought, which can lead to cattle losses and increased food insecurity, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is supporting pastoralists in northeastern Kenya’s Mandera County to grow pasture for livestock.

UNDP Rwanda/Alice Kayibanda

New energy security framework will help meet growing needs in East Africa, sustainably – UN economic wing

21 November 2018
Africa

Backed by the United Nations, countries in eastern Africa have launched a new energy security framework to help tackle growing challenges over energy access and availability in the region.

World Bank/Scott Wallace

After decade of progress, rural areas of Latin America, Caribbean slide back into poverty – UN report

21 November 2018
Americas

For the first time in a decade, the number of people falling into poverty in rural Latin America and the Caribbean has increased by two million, according to a new United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, which called the worrying trend a “historical reversal.”