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New UN Survey Highlights Progress In Global Trade Facilitation Despite Polycrisis Disruptions
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 6:01 am | UN ESCAP
Persisting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical turbulence and high inflation continue to challenge international trade. Despite these global disruptions, countries are continuing to move towards a seamless and efficient trading environment by simplifying ... More >>
Asia-Pacific Countries Adopt 10 UN Resolutions Reaffirming Commitments To Protect The Planet And Its People
Saturday, 20 May 2023, 4:56 pm | UN ESCAP
Governments from across Asia and the Pacific today endorsed a UN resolution to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact. They re-committed to immediately curb greenhouse gas emissions – of which the region accounts for over half of the ... More >>
Leaders Gather At Annual UN Policy Forum To Tackle Asia And The Pacific’s Most Daunting Threat – Climate Change
Tuesday, 16 May 2023, 2:49 pm | UN ESCAP
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) opened its 79th session in Bangkok today, with global and regional leaders calling for urgent action to combat climate change and its dire impacts. They urged countries ... More >>
Regional UN Forum Urges Countries To Rescue The Sustainable Development Goals Amidst Compounding Crises
Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 10:07 pm | UN ESCAP
Never before have development gains in Asia and the Pacific been at such risk of being swept away by overlapping and intensifying crises. The Tenth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) opened today in Bangkok with a resounding call ... More >>
UN Lauds Asia-Pacific Countries For Championing Sustainability, But Warns 2030 Goalpost Remains Decades Out Of Reach
Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 8:30 pm | UN ESCAP
The United Nations has lauded countries in the Asia-Pacific region for demonstrating an ongoing commitment to sustainable development despite facing unprecedented recent challenges such as intensifying climate change, health crises and geopolitical conflicts. ... More >>
New UN Report Reveals Cracks In Region's Health Sector Investments
Thursday, 8 December 2022, 8:33 pm | UN ESCAP
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed critical cracks in health sector investments in Asia and the Pacific, with the sector’s foreign direct investments (FDI) dropping by 45 per cent from 2019 to 2020 and continuing to decline to 34 per cent in the ... More >>
Asia-Pacific Countries Renew Commitment To Ramp Up Climate Action, Protect The Planet
Friday, 2 December 2022, 5:47 am | UN ESCAP
Ministers and high-level officials today renewed commitments from Asia-Pacific countries to boost regional cooperation in climate action, sustainable urban development, the protection of ecosystems and oceans, and implementing environmental rights principles; ... More >>
Can Asia And The Pacific Get On Track To Net Zero?
Monday, 28 November 2022, 8:03 pm | UN ESCAP
The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: The window for maintaining global warming to 1.5 degrees is closing fast and what is on the table currently is insufficient to avert some of the worst potential effects of climate ... More >>
Digital Ministers Agree On Shaping Common Digital Future For Asia And The Pacific
Saturday, 12 November 2022, 5:03 am | UN ESCAP
As the COVID-19 pandemic hastened the adoption of new technologies “a digital big bang” ministers from around Asia and the Pacific today agreed to strengthen cooperation in promoting connectivity and a transformation towards a safe and inclusive ... More >>
Asia-Pacific Countries Commit To Intensify Collaboration In Using Space Applications For Sustainable Development
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 6:20 am | UN ESCAP
26 October 2022 Ministers and heads of national space agencies today endorsed the Jakarta Ministerial Declaration on Space Applications for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific at the close of a high-level meeting co-organized by the ... More >>
Governments Adopt Landmark Jakarta Declaration On The Asian & The Pacific Decade of Persons With Disabilities 2023-2032
Saturday, 22 October 2022, 5:51 am | UN ESCAP
Governments Adopt Landmark Jakarta Declaration Underscoring Rights-based Approach To Disability-inclusive Development In Asia And The Pacific Jakarta, 21 October 2022 Asian and Pacific countries today reaffirmed their commitment to disability-inclusive ... More >>
Persons With Disabilities Integral Players In Determining Innovative Solutions To Fully Inclusive Societies
Saturday, 15 October 2022, 7:08 pm | UN ESCAP
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Ten years ago, the Asia-Pacific region came together and designed the world’s first set of disability-specific development goals: the Incheon Strategy to “Make the Right Real” for Persons with Disabilities. This ... More >>
Building New Collaborative Global Partnerships For Sustainable COVID-19 Recovery
Tuesday, 13 September 2022, 5:38 am | UN ESCAP
Eleventh Global United Nations South-South Development Expo Opens in Bangkok BANGKOK, THAILAND (12 September 2022): The eleventh edition of the United Nations Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo), an event highlighting Southern innovations in tackling ... More >>
Half Of Region’s Workforce Poor Or On Brink Of Poverty, Finds New UN Report
Wednesday, 7 September 2022, 5:40 am | UN ESCAP
The working-age population of Asia and the Pacific is under pressure; denied decent work opportunities and highly vulnerable to systemic shocks such as pandemics or economic downturns, finds a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social ... More >>
The Right Policies Can Protect The Workers Of Asia And The Pacific
Monday, 5 September 2022, 5:16 am | UN ESCAP
By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Most of the 2.1 billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools that governments can use to remedy these deficiencies ... More >>
Business Leaders Pledge Support For New Asia-Pacific Green Deal
Saturday, 27 August 2022, 5:15 am | UN ESCAP
Recognizing the role that the private sector can play in scaling up climate action, government and business leaders from across the region have declared their support for an Asia-Pacific Green Deal for Business. The declaration was adopted at the Asia-Pacific ... More >>
UN Regional Forum On Statistics Explores Data Governance Issues
Wednesday, 24 August 2022, 6:05 am | UN ESCAP
Heads of national statistical offices, statisticians and other experts from across the region are meeting this week at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to discuss establishing sound data governance mechanisms ... More >>
APC Colombia & UN ESCAP Formalize Partnership To Promote Business Innovation For The Sustainable Development Goals
Saturday, 6 August 2022, 5:43 am | UN ESCAP
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Presidential Agency for International Cooperation of Colombia (APC Colombia), have formalized a partnership through a Memorandum of Agreement to promote business ... More >>
Achieving The SDGs In Extraordinary Times
Wednesday, 13 July 2022, 5:56 am | UN ESCAP
by Armida Alisjahbana, Woochong Um and Kanni Wignaraja The start of the “Decade of Action” to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also marked the start of an unprecedented period of overlapping crises. The Covid-19 ... More >>
Recognize Reality Of A Rapidly Ageing Asia-Pacific Region & Revitalize The Role Of Older Persons In Society: UN Forum
Saturday, 2 July 2022, 6:02 am | UN ESCAP
Government officials, civil society representatives and international organizations today called for renewed momentum and swift action to advance the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) in a regional review and appraisal convened on its ... More >>
