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UN ‘blueprint’ to protect least developed nations amid global slowdown

·February 9, 2023·2 min read

The Doha Programme of Action, as it’s formally known, has been designed as a roadmap up to 2031, to foster strengthened commitments between the least developed countries and their development partners. “The world is reeling under the cascading impacts of complex, interlocking challenges and structural limitations and constrained fiscal capabilities...

Downward slide in global food prices continues: FAO

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·February 5, 2023·2 min read

Price indices for vegetable oils, dairy and sugar drove the January decline, the UN food agency said, issuing two new reports on food production expectations. The FAO food price index fell 17.9 per cent below its all-time peak, reached in March 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The downward...

WHO launches bid to tackle inequalities behind global breast cancer threat

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·February 4, 2023·2 min read

Each year, more than 2.3 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer, making it the most common cancer in the world affecting all adults, according to WHO. Although a limited number of high-income countries have been able to reduce breast cancer mortality by 40 per cent since 1990, for women...

Global growth forecast to slow to 1.9% in 2023, warn UN economists

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·January 25, 2023·4 min read

This will be one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades, apart from during the 2007-8 financial crisis and the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “In most countries we expect that private consumption and investment will weaken due to incomes and higher income rates”, said Ingo Pitterle, Senior Economist...

UN chief calls for renewable energy ‘revolution’ for a brighter global future

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·January 14, 2023·4 min read

“Only renewables can safeguard our future, close the energy access gap, stabilize prices and ensure energy security,” he said in a video message to the 13th Session of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly, taking place this weekend in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. “Together, let’s jumpstart a renewables...

Global food crisis putting millions of young lives at risk

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·January 13, 2023·2 min read

More than 30 million under-fives are suffering from wasting, or acute malnutrition, brought on by conflict, climate shocks, ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the rising costs of living. Children with the condition have weakened immune systems and are at higher risk of dying from common childhood diseases. Eight...

Guterres urges radical global finance shake-up to help Pakistan after deadly floods

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·January 9, 2023·7 min read

“If there is any doubt about loss and damage, go to Pakistan,” he told delegates at the International Conference on climate resilient Pakistan. “There is loss. There is damage. The devastation of climate change is real. From floods and droughts to cyclones and torrential rains. And as always, those countries...

UN chief issues global ‘wake-up call’ on Day of Epidemic Preparedness

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·December 28, 2022·2 min read

“The costs have been catastrophic”, Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement marking the day. Since the pandemic struck, he pointed out that millions of lives have been lost, as hundreds of millions fallen ill. And economies have been shattered, health systems stretched, and trillions of dollars lost. Moreover, progress...

2022 Year in Review: Amid global turmoil, UN doggedly pursues international climate agreements

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·December 28, 2022·7 min read

At the end of 2021, when the UN climate conference (COP26) wrapped up in Glasgow, none of those present could have suspected that a war in Ukraine would throw the global economy into turmoil, convincing many nations to suspend their commitments to a low carbon economy, as they scrambled to...

Global cholera surge likely accelerated by climate change, warns WHO

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·December 18, 2022·4 min read

“The map is under threat (from cholera) everywhere,” said Dr. Philippe Barboza, from the World Health Organization, speaking in Geneva, via Zoom. Available data points to cases of infection in around 30 countries, whereas in the previous five years, fewer than 20 countries reported infections, on average. Reversing recent successes “The...

Global trade growth turns negative after record year: UNCTAD

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·December 14, 2022·2 min read

That’s according to UN trade and development agency, UNCTAD, whose analysts said that global growth “turned negative” during the second half of 2022. The UN agency said that trade in goods and services is expected to reach $25 trillion and $7 trillion respectively, by the end of the year. The...

Ports, shipping need to go green to resist future global crises: UNCTAD

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·December 5, 2022·2 min read

“Ships carry over 80 per cent of the goods traded globally, with the percentage even higher for most developing countries; hence the urgent need to boost resilience to shocks that disrupt supply chains, fuel inflation and affect the poorest the most,” the UN agency said in a new report on maritime transport. Between...