Global Issues
News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 1063
Climate change, population increase fuel looming water crisis: WMO
- UN News
Improved water management, monitoring and forecasting are needed in the face of a looming global water crisis, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and partners said in a report published on Tuesday.
Violence, aid access continues to obstruct humanitarian effort in DR Congo
- UN News
Violence and access constraints in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to hamper humanitarian operations in a context where one in three people need assistance, the senior UN official in the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.
Multilateral Financial Institutions Can Catalyze Public Development Banks (PDB) to Deliver SDGs
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Oct 05 (IPS) - There is broad consensus that realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change require a transformative agenda for agriculture and food systems. In this context, the importance of mobilizing more investments and aligning them to sustainable development and inclusive rural transformation objectives, is widely acknowledged.
Stop New Washington Putsch
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 05 (IPS) - As finance ministers and central bank governors gather next week for the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in the US capital, the first shots of a new putsch against multilateralism have been fired. The target: Kristalina Georgieva, Fund Managing Director (MD) since 2019.
Pandemic impact ‘tip of the iceberg’ after years of neglecting child mental health
- UN News
COVID-19 has taken a toll on the mental health of children and young people, and impacts could be felt for many years to come, UN children’s agency, UNICEF, warned on Tuesday.
Ivorian Cocoa Farmers Are Beating a System To Reduce Child Labour: Here's How
- Inter Press Service
Oct 04 (IPS) - The evidence of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa became public knowledge in the late 1990s. This followed press reports documenting the existence of hazardous child labour on cocoa farms. Pressure on the cocoa industry to end child labour has been growing ever since, particularly from civil society and more recently from both US and European regulators.
UN looks to address ‘unprecedented catastrophic levels’ of food insecurity
- UN News
The world currently faces unprecedented catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity, according to UN agencies, and around $6.6 billion is needed urgently, to support 41 million in danger of sliding into famine.
Teachers are driving force behind ‘global education recovery’ from COVID-19
- UN News
For the education system to recover from the COVID pandemic, it requires more investment in the well-being, training, professional development and working conditions of the world’s 71 million educators, UN agencies chiefs said on Monday, just ahead of World Teachers’ Day.
At UN trade meeting, Guterres urges ‘quantum leap in support’ for vulnerable nations
- UN News
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must be sustainable and inclusive, Secretary-General António Guterres said in remarks to a major UN trade conference which opened on Monday in Barbados, unveiling “an urgent four-point debt crisis action plan.”
Only around 1 in 5 space industry workers are women
- UN News
The number of women employed in the international space industry represents just 20-22 percent of the workforce, according to figures released by the UN; roughly the same proportion as 30 years ago.
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