An estimated $4 trillion a year is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. How to fill this gap? Tax is one answer – and the question that occupies the UN Tax Committee, an ...
COP17, the UN Biodiversity Conference, comes at a critical halfway point in the global effort to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Running from 19 to 30 October, the meeting will take stock ...
Biodiversity losses continue to upend the lives of billions of people whose future prosperity depends on countries taking ...
Rapid transformations – from artificial intelligence and digital technologies to renewable energy and demographic shifts – ...
The Anti-Racism Office and UN Women invite you to join “Honouring our Values at Home: Advancing anti-racism, gender equality ...
The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by the escalation of fighting in and around El Obeid, North Kordofan state, including drone attacks impacting civilians and civilian infrastructure.He is ...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Rania A. Al-Mashat of Egypt as the next Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission ...
Less than a month before the UN climate conference COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye, representatives of three successive summit presidencies gathered to address a pressing question: How can the world ...
Economic, digital and energy transformations are reshaping the world at extraordinary speed. Yet, billions of people remain excluded from the jobs, skills, services, infrastructure and protections ...
Over the last 60 years, at least 40% of all internal conflicts have been linked to natural resource exploitation. At the same time, natural resources are often targeted in war time, putting vulnerable ...
Organized by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN in collaboration with the UN Secretariat, the event takes place in the North Lawn Area of UNHQ. Yoga is an ancient physical, mental and spiritual ...
The World Population Policies Database provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on national population policies and programmes. Between 1976 and 2015, the Database was updated biennially by ...