News Category: Covid-19

Calibrating the COVID-19 Crisis Response to the SDGs

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The COVID-19 crisis is now a global one that has also morphed into larger and more global economic and social crisis than the financial collapse of 2008-9. High income countries have done well to backstop their financial systems and have also begun to begun to advance bold stimulus packages for the recovery. However, emerging market… Read more »

covid19 and climate change we must rise

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In the Pacific we aspire to endurance and sustainability. But progress is difficult to sustain when we face multiple threats that reverse decades of development gains in a matter of hours or days.The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the integrity and prosperity of our Blue Pacific peoples, our communities and our economies. I respect and admire the… Read more »

G20 should be ‘anchor’ in COVID-19 storm

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Founding director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD) of the University of Oxford and former member of the 10-member high-level advisory group to support the United Nations Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM)

The virus has made it clear: the future is now

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Director, Wyss Academy for Nature and professor of sustainable development at the University of Bern, and co-chair of the group of 15 independent scientists drafting the 2019 UN Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR)

Dispatches from the Field: Scientists, Covid-19 crisis around the world

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We will overcome the COVID-19 pandemic only through effective collaboration and communication among scientists, experts, innovators and policymakers. Real-time sharing of experiences and insights will be critical in strengthening the science-policy-society interface, and contribute towards the solutions we need. The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) is presenting here updates and analysis… Read more »

Coronavirus News: Latest Updates About Covid-19

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Globally, as of 10:23am CEST, 13 August 2020, there have been 20,405,695 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 743,487 deaths, reported to WHO.