According to the recent estimates,half of the world’s population has no social protection and access to healthcare (ILO, 2019); 300 million workers in developing countries earn less than 1.9 US dollars a day; less than 60 percent of workers have formal contracts and 81 percent of all countries have violated the right to collective bargaining. …
The recent IPCC special reportargued that limiting warming to 1.5 °C is possible, but requires urgent and unprecedented transformation across all aspects of society – including energy, agricultural, urban and industrial systems. In order to support and accelerate this all-embracing and deep societal change, broader integral policies that would include climate action, issues of security, …
Cultural and creative industries are major drivers of economies by capitalising US $2,3 billion or 3 percent of the global GDP (UNESCO, 2013). Globalization, facilitated by technology accelerated the export of creative goods at about 12 percent per annum in the developing world in the past decades. (UNDP, 2019)Creative economy promotes human-centred growth, creates 29.5 …
Between $5-7 trillionneeded annually to achieve the SDGs (UNCTAD, 2017; WEF, 2018), including $4 trillion for Emerging Markets alone (WEF, 2018). In order to mobilize these essential financial resources for sustainable development, innovative models of development finance, public funding, private investments, need to evolve. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) encourages new forms and synergies …
195 countries and the bulk of their populations are coastal, tied to the health and productivity of marine ecosystems, which offer valuable assets to generate substantial economic and developmental gains, and play a key role in climate change mitigation. (UNCTAD, 2017) The rapid development of technologies, coupled with fast economic development and demographic growth in …
Just within last few years, the world saw the destruction of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, the Brazilian Museu Nacionalin Rio de Janeiro, founded in 1818, which housed an invaluable collection of 20 million artifacts, the destruction of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra by ISIS and the Buddhas of Bamiyan by Taliban. However, dozens of …
The World Economic Forumhas estimated a $1 trillion economic potential in the Arctic. Melting ice offers an opportunity for Arctic states to develop and use new shipping routes of commercial and military strategic importance, access economic resources and explore significant natural reserves of oil and gas. According to the scientific estimates, they comprise30 percent of …
WHO Fair Pricing Forum, held on 11-13 April, sought to motivate an open discussion among a wide range of stakeholders including the public sector, civil society, and the pharmaceutical industry to find the ways and strategies to reduce medicine prices, make them more transparent and SDGs-responsive in order to expand access to medicines for all. …
“Good health is one of humanity’s most valued assets. It is key to advancing sustainable development – to end poverty, promote peaceful and inclusive societies and protect the environment. This puts the health goal (SDG 3) right at the centre of the entire 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” – says the WHO in its Summary …
We have not seen the broad transformation that we need, to achieve the SDGs by 2030, – said Inga Rhonda King, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the opening of the Forum on Financing for Development, held this week at the UN’s headquarters in New-York. The ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development …
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