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Policy analysis
What Future for a World of 8 Billion?
In countries where deaths outnumber births, the population is increasing very little, if at all. In some cases, it has already started to decline...
Climate change
Ocean Heat, Deoxygenation and Acidification are “Alarming”, Says WMO
Global mean sea level reached a new record high in 2021, after increasing at an average 4.5 mm per year over the period 2013...
Agri-technology
Leveraging Digital Technologies
Digitalization of rural communities is leading the way to a better future across Asia and the Pacific. But, it must be remembered that the...
Accountability
Living in Harmony with Nature
Indigenous communities have historically been at the margins of formal global negotiations on climate change. They were finally given a voice alongside governments in...
Civil society
New Medicines May Help End AIDS – But High Prices and Monopolies Could Keep the Poor Locked Out
On the current trajectory, most people who need them will not be able to get them any time soon, because high prices and monopolies...
Child Rights
Reclaiming Our Future
As ESCAP celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, we find ourselves facing our biggest shared test on the back of cascading and overlapping impacts...
Climate change
By Deliberately Ignoring Risk, the World Is Bankrolling Its Own Destruction
The scale and intensity of disasters are increasing, with more people killed or affected by disasters in the last five years than in the...
Accountability
COVID-19 Could Derail SDGs for Next Five Years, Says Report
The progress of SDGs was already lagging before the pandemic. Scientists have warned that COVID-19 will remain uncontrolled in many countries unless coordinated action...
Latest news
Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action
Companies’ emissions reduction targets should not be the sole measure of corporate climate ambition, according to a new perspective...
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Bangladesh witnesses longest heat wave in 76 years
Meteorologists said that Bangladesh is experiencing its longest heat wave in recorded history this April with forecasts showing no...
Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is high enough not to allow microfinance to bring about any...
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Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action
Companies’ emissions reduction targets should not be the sole...
Bangladesh witnesses longest heat wave in 76 years
Meteorologists said that Bangladesh is experiencing its longest heat...
