The Pact for Skills: Mobilising all partners to invest in skills
Commissioners Schmit and Breton have officially launched the Pact for Skills, a central element of the European Skills Agenda. They have also announced the...
Filippo Grandi: Ending statelessness ‘a matter of political will’
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has called on world leaders to take bold and swift action to eradicate statelessness by 2024.
Marking the sixth...
Crude impact: Cleaning up the ravages of war in Iraq
Each year, 06 November marks the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. We report on one...
COVID-19 worsening food insecurity, driving displacement
Global hunger and population displacement, which were already at record levels when COVID-19 struck, could “surge” as migrants and those reliant on a dwindling...
Rethink Education to Prepare Developing Asia for the Future of Jobs and Skills
As technological change and automation increasingly disrupt many aspects of daily life, developing economies in Asia and the Pacific must rethink education and training...
Renewable Energy is the Future for Pakistan’s Power System
A new World Bank study launched today suggests that Pakistan should quickly implement a major scale-up of solar and wind generation.
The Variable Renewable Energy...
Renewable power is defying the Covid crisis with record growth this year and next
Renewable power is growing robustly around the world this year, contrasting with the sharp declines triggered by the Covid-19 crisis in many other parts...
African Countries agree to enhance cooperation on geothermal development
More than 500 experts, governments, civil society, academia and the private sector representatives from Africa and other regions agreed on the agenda of regional cooperation...
Bulgaria’s Industry Adopted Artificial Intelligence Solutions
Bulgaria has large numbers of artificial intelligence (AI) players across industry, research and startups relative to the size of its economy, finds the latest...
UN experts decry COVID vaccine hoarding: ‘No one is secure until all of us are’
The only way to fight the COVID-19 crisis is to make affordable vaccines available to everyone, independent UN human rights experts said on Monday,...