Commercial Drone Market to Hit 2.91 Million Units by 2023
Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Global Commercial UAS Market Outlook, 2020, finds that the industry is transitioning from a nascent to a growth stage....
ADB Promotes Innovation and Efficiency to Bolster Anticorruption Efforts
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is promoting innovation and efficiency to enhance its anticorruption efforts by streamlining case management and expediting the assessment of...
Staying on Course: Renewable Energy in the Time of COVID-19
Statement by Francesco La Camera, IRENA Director-General
In a short few weeks, much of the world has been shut down due to the novel coronavirus,...
Commission adopts Recommendation to support exit strategies through mobile data and apps
Today, the Commission recommends steps and measures to develop a common EU approach for the use of mobile applications and mobile data in response...
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....