Urgent need to tackle impact of likely electric car battery production boom
Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD, to call...
World Bank Approves $350M Loan to Support Reforms for Economic Recovery in Ukraine
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a $350 million First Economic Recovery Development Policy Loan (DPL) for Ukraine in support of reforms...
UN rights experts call for decisive measures to protect ‘fundamental freedoms’ in China
The repression of “fundamental freedoms” by the Chinese Government prompted nearly 50 UN independent experts on Friday to express their continuing alarm, urging the...
COVID-19 Accelerates Cycle of Paid Entertainment Subscriptions and Cancellations
U.S. consumers had an average of 12 paid media and entertainment subscriptions pre-COVID-19.
Eighty percent of U.S. consumers now subscribe to a paid streaming video...
Sustained Reforms Crucial for Mongolia’s Long-Term Growth
Mongolia can build a more inclusive and sustainable economy by improving macroeconomic management, strengthening human development, increasing international trade, and diversifying the economy by...
Shift in Consumer Behaviour Spotlights Growing Cybersecurity Concerns
The rapid increase in cyberattacks and pressures escalating from the abrupt step change to digital prompted by COVID-19 have shifted consumer behaviour. The findings...
Most EU Member States not on track to reduce air pollution by 2030
The assessment of Member States' first programmes of measures to control air emissions finds that the implementation of the new European clean air rules...
Turkey Invests in Safer Schooling and Distance Education with the World Bank Support
The World Bank approved today a Euro 143.8 million (US Dollar 160 million equivalent) Safe Schooling And Distance Education Project loan to the Republic...
Green Deal: Commission launch the European Just Transition Platform
On Monday 29 June, the Just Transition Platform (JTP) will be launched to help Member States to draw up their territorial Just Transition Plans...
COVID-19 Hastens Automation, New APEC Report Finds
The COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the adoption of automation by firms and organizations across the region, according to a new policy brief by the...