Tag: Sustainable development

Trade and Sustainable Development: Options for Follow-up and Review Trade is reflected throughout the draft Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of June 2015 and the May 2015...

The Commission is proposing a new trade and investment strategy for the European Union, entitled ‘Trade for All: Towards a more responsible trade and investment policy’. The n...

The new Sustainable Development Goals will only succeed if they can succeed in Africa. How can we make that happen? A new report from the Africa Progress Panel, Global Goals, Afric...

Led by the Philippines, the V20 group say they represent a significant number of nations most vulnerable to climate change – low and middle income, least developed, arid, isthmus...

Speakers at the UNCTAD 62nd Trade and Development Board said that international investment agreements must preserve States’ abilities to adopt policies that support the SDGs. A b...

World leaders, heads of global financial institutions and other dignitaries are heading to New York, where, after months of intense negotiations, the United Nations is set to launc...

Business Call to Action sees strong increases in membership, commitments to improve lives and livelihoods for world’s poor people From small social entrepreneurships to large na...

A bold new global agenda to end poverty by 2030 and pursue a sustainable future was unanimously adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations on 25 September 2015 at the s...

Long-term finance is essential for households, firms and sustainable development. A shortage of long-term financing since the 2008 crisis is choking the investment-backed growth o...

The second stakeholder involvement workshop for the GE-TOP South Africa took place on 11 August 2015 at the Spier Wine Estate outside Stellenbosch, Cape Town. About 35 participants...

The year 2015 is an important one for global development as the Millennium Development Goals endorsed in 2000 with 8 goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators are coming to an end in le...

Ministers met with UNCTAD Secretary General Kituyi at the official UNCTAD side event to the Financing for Development (FfD) conference. There Dr. Kituyi launched the newly updated ...

Countries agreed on 15 July 2015 on a series of bold measures to overhaul global finance practices and generate investments for tackling a range of economic, social and enviro...

Global leaders are poised to adopt a set of targets tackling the world’s biggest challenges. These targets include the ambitious goal of ending extreme poverty in a generation.&...

Development cannot be sustainable if it does not address the challenge of climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Member States on Monday as he opened a H...

Post-2015 Financing for Development: Multilateral Development Finance Statement by the Heads of the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Rec...

Death, destruction and displacement wrought by natural disasters would be significantly reduced by 2030 under a new framework adopted by countries attending the Third United Nation...

The Assembly, TAKES NOTE of: the Report of the Commission on the development of the African Union Agenda 2063, as well as the Agenda 2063 Framework Document; Agenda 2063 ...

The first stakeholder involvement workshop for the GE-TOP South Africa took place on 29 January 2015 in the boardroom of the National Agricultural Marketing Council in Pretoria. Ab...

Arnold Kammel doesn’t doubt that Africa and the EU have many goals in common, particularly when it comes to peace and security. That’s why it’s time for a ‘partnership of e...