Waste management an essential public service in the fight to beat COVID-19
With the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continuing to spread and its impacts upon human health and the economy intensifying day-by-day, governments are urged to...
European Defence Fund: EU funds new joint research and industrial projects
The Commission is opening calls for proposals to finance more than €160 million in joint defence industrial projects in 2020, and announcing seven new...
ADB Allocates $44 Million to Assist Countries Containing COVID-19
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today allocated $44 million in technical assistance resources to support its developing member countries in their response to the novel...
ILO: COVID-19 causes devastating losses in working hours and employment
The COVID-19 crisis is expected to wipe out 6.7 per cent of working hours globally in the second quarter of 2020 – equivalent to...
Explainer: Global EU response to the coronavirus pandemic
Is the EU pledging any new money? Will it use the reserve of the European Development Fund?
To address the immediate health crisis and resulting...
Renewables Account for Almost Three Quarters of New Capacity in 2019
The renewable energy sector added 176 gigawatts (GW) of generating capacity globally in 2019, marginally lower than the (revised) 179 GW added in 2018....
How Your Resume Should Look Like During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly introduced a great number of new challenges to society all over the world. Clearly, the most critical of them...
‘Everyone at risk’ as coronavirus cases tick up among migrants and refugees sheltering in Greece
With 23 migrants at an open accommodation site in central Greece testing positive for COVID-19, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) sounded the alarm...
South Sudan Economic Analysis Shows Growth Promise Amid Fragility
After a four-year contraction, South Sudan’s economy appears to be recovering and reached 3.2 percent in FY18/19. However, according to the World Bank’s latest...
COVID-19: The global food supply chain is holding up, for now
The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic is so far having little impact on the global food supply chain, but that could change for the worse –...