Sustainability
Stories from the Field: Digital Transformation Key Driver in Social Reform and Growth
By Priya Gajraj, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Senegal Some African nations lead the world’s e-money businesses. Several are finding...
Monday’s Daily Brief: US formally announces climate accord withdrawal, young foreigners stranded in Syria, India toxic smog crisis, Ebola worker death shows frontline risks
US withdrawal from Paris Agreement to take effect in November 2020 The United States announced on Monday that it was...
Microplastics, microbeads and single-use plastics poisoning sea life and affecting humans
UNEP launched the Clean Seas Campaign in 2017 to galvanize a global movement that tackles single-use plastics and microbeads. Now in...
Far more needed to ‘confront the world’s climate emergency’, UN chief tells ASEAN Summit
“I count on your leadership to undertake the concrete actions necessary to confront the world’s climate emergency”, Mr. Guterres underscored. ...
UN migration agency appeals to South Sudan group to free volunteer worker and child
According to IOM, they were caught in the crossfire between two armed groups in Isebi, Morobo County, in South Sudan’s...
Coal addiction ‘must be overcome’ to ease climate change, UN chief says in Bangkok
The world’s addiction to coal “remains a major threat in relation to climate change and one of the messages in...
Friday’s Daily Brief: When journalists are targets, landslides in Cameroon, UN Female Police Officer of the Year award
‘When journalists are targeted, societies as a whole, pay a price’, UN chief “Without journalists able to do their jobs...
UN calls for shipping ‘propulsion revolution’ to avoid ‘environmental disaster’
If emissions from the maritime industry are not cut, we are headed for “an environmental disaster”, Isabelle Durant, the deputy...
Climate experts pledge to scale up high-altitude fight against mountain melt
In a call for action at the end of this week’s High Mountain Summit to tackle the global warming causing glaciers to...
Eight things you need to know about the sanitation crisis
Eight things you need to know about the sanitation crisis A toilet is not just a toilet. It’s a life-saver,...
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