Forest restoration provides a path to pandemic recovery, greener future
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic should lead to stronger action to safeguard the world’s forests, a senior UN official said on Friday, highlighting how...
ADB Bolsters Support for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has quadrupled its support for food systems development in the past decade from $409 million in 2010 to $1.2...
No winners but fewer losers in global economy from COVID than expected
The COVID-19 pandemic seriously impacted all economies around the world last year, with trillions of dollars of lost earnings, UN trade and development experts...
Natural disasters occurring three times more often than 50 years ago
New and unprecedented forms of natural disasters are most heavily felt in the agricultural industry, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday.
At no other...
Indonesia: improve skills, strengthen institutions to strengthen recovery from COVID-19
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted two decades of steady growth and rising living standards in Indonesia, triggering the first recession in a generation and highlighting...
Top electronics brands launch first private sector alliance for circular electronics
Today,top electronics companies, together with a group of pioneering global organizations, set a vision and roadmap committing to a circular economy for electronics by...
Canada: Focus on boosting business, jobs and well-being
Canada’s economy is on the road to recovery after the shock from COVID-19, yet risks and uncertainties remain, and some economic sectors and groups...
With new pact, tech companies take on climate change
When ride hailing company Bolt set out to design its own shared scooter, part of a push into lightweight urban transit, engineers had one...
Globally, 3 billion people at health risk due to scarce data on water quality
Globally, over 3 billion people are at risk of disease because the water quality of their rivers, lakes and groundwater is unknown, due to...
Are we on track for a green recovery? Not Yet
One year from the onset of the pandemic, recovery spending has fallen short of nations’ commitments to build back more sustainably. An analysis of...