ADB Approves $500 Million Loan to Help Keep Filipino Children Healthy and in School
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today approved a $500 million loan to expand its support for the Philippine government’s conditional cash transfer program, which...
UNIDO launches COVID-19 Industrial Recovery Programme
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has developed a new approach which will provide targeted support to national governments to restructure their industrial...
Action Plan Launched to Build Trust in Global Cyberspace
Digitalization has been revolutionizing our economies and societies for over two decades. Data fuels the digital economy, but it does so best when it...
New Government Guidelines Makes Accelerating Artificial Intelligence Possible
Prior to COVID-19, government investment in AI had surpassed billions of dollars in research and development. With a premium now placed on speed to...
Coronavirus: EU strengthens action to tackle disinformation
EU Commission and the High Representative are assessing their steps to fight disinformation around the coronavirus pandemic and are proposing a way forward. This...
The pandemic and a mild winter have delivered a historic shock to the global natural gas market
The combination of the Covid-19 crisis and an exceptionally mild winter in the northern hemisphere have put global demand for natural gas on course...
Falling clean energy costs provide opportunity to boost climate action in COVID-19 recovery packages
As COVID-19 hits the fossil fuel industry, a new report shows that renewable energy is more cost-effective than ever – providing an opportunity to...
COVID-19 to Plunge Global Economy into Worst Recession since World War II
The swift and massive shock of the coronavirus pandemic and shutdown measures to contain it have plunged the global economy into a severe contraction....
New UN report highlights link between gender, climate and security
Even as countries buckle under the devastating social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, they must consider the links between gender inequality and...
Global economy faces a tightrope walk to recovery
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered the most severe recession in nearly a century and is causing enormous damage to people’s health, jobs and well-being,...