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#GO4SDGs Presents: Innovative solutions for MSMEs in a green recovery

2021-07-07

The event will feature first-hand insight from the Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) initiative on how micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are driving sustainable development in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Experts will present available tools, knowledge and services that can support a green recovery, and will highlight critical gaps in essential support for MSMEs.

Overfishing Update

2021-07-05

Overfishing negatively impacts sustainable fisheries, livelihood and world fish stocks. These unsustainable practices threaten local biodiversity and food security in many places around the world. Discover what organizations in Geneva

Climate resilience key to economic recovery in Africa

2021-07-05

The Fifth African Climate Resilience Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS 5), held virtually last week, highlighted that integration of climate resilience in design and implementation of agribusiness, hydropower, transport corridors, urbanisation and vulnerable

ECA partners ODI and ACET to research into how AfCFTA will promote post COVID-19 economic recovery

2021-07-05

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is to assist member states to develop their national African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) implementation strategy with an environmental bias in anticipation of

Vietnam blows by Thailand in clean energy race

2021-07-05

Bureaucracy is hampering Bangkok’s renewable energy drive as rival Vietnam powers into the regional lead. Thailand is lagging Vietnam in the race to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy

WTO Informal Dialogue Calls for Ministerial Declaration on Plastics

2021-07-05

The Informal Dialogue on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade currently has 16 co-sponsors. Ambassador Chad Blackman of Barbados, one of the Dialogue’s co-coordinators, said the 21 June discussions

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Thailand: COVID-19 delays tax reform plans

2021-07-05

Thailand’s economy is currently at its weakest since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. This has led the Thai government to put on hold its plans to undertake major reforms of

UNGA Dialogue Highlights Land Restoration as Urgent Requirement for Sustainable Development

2021-07-05

A high-level dialogue on DLDD aimed to establish land restoration as a central priority ahead of upcoming COPs on climate, land and biodiversity. The discussion highlighted healthy land as the

How the construction industry can “build back better for the world”

2021-07-05

This time last year, the UK was still deep in the grips of the pandemic’s first wave. But as we hunkered down – transport grinding to a halt, construction put

Carbon border adjustment mechanisms: Will innovative climate policy launch a trade war?

2021-07-05

There is growing attention on the concept of carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAMs), a hypothetical form of trade restriction intended to deal with “carbon leakage”: the expectation that aggressive mitigation

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