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A young volunteer uses a hand puppet to educate children on COVID-19 awareness in northern rural Homs, Syria.

‘Generation disrupted’ lays out plan to take on coronavirus through major youth mobilization

14 December 2020

A new ground-breaking global youth initiative was launched on Monday to invest in and scale up youth-led solutions and engagement, in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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UN Gender Focus: gender parity , Muslim women and transgender community in Bangladesh

19 January 2017

UN Gender Focus

Gender parity still “decades away” in public life: UN development chief

Business community meets to galvanize action on clean energy

27 January 2016

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Investors and business leaders from around the world have gathered at the UN to scale up investment in clean energy sources.

Last year, investments in renewable energy such as solar and wind power hit a record US$330 billion globally, and the UN Secretary-General is calling for a doubling in investment by 2020.

The Investor Summit on Climate Risk comes one month after the signing of the Paris climate change agreement.

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