How can African countries improve their credit ratings?
Stories & Blogs New African Magazine (Article )It is essential to raise additional finance if Africa’s SDGs are to keep on track. Jean-Marc Kilolo outlines how the UN Economic Commission for Africa is helping countries improve their credit ratings and search out innovative ways of financing.
Carbon trading offers rich rewards for Africa
Stories & Blogs New African Magazine (Article )The global carbon credit market is valued at around $909bn. Africa is beginning to tap into this lucrative resource but a more coordinated effort across the continent could reap rich benefits, writes Faustine Ngila.
Climate-smart African agribusiness could be world leader
Stories & Blogs New African Magazine (Article )Africa can be a world leader in food system transformation that also alleviates poverty and protects the environment, but it will take collaborative and co-ordinated work, argue Angela Churie Kallhauge, [et. al]
‘We all need to step up’ to rescue the SDG’s and fight for a better future: UN chief.
Stories & Blogs UN (Story )UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday rallied a diverse cross section of civil society actors to use their passionate voices and energetic grassroots networks to “help rescue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fight for the better fu
Speech: This is the moment, the opportunity, to finally call time on gender inequality.
Stories & Blogs UN (Speech )Opening remarks by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the Generation Equality Midpoint Moment, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 17 September 2023.
Sustainable Development Not Possible ‘Without Equality for All Women, Girls’, Says Deputy Secretary-General, at Generation Equality Midpoint Moment Event
Stories & Blogs UN (Speech )“Geopolitical tensions are exacerbating the progress made on women’s rights. Poverty is on the rise, families continue to go hungry at night, and the planet we call home is in havoc” Amins Mohammed.
Used Responsibly, Digital Technologies Can Be Catalysts of Economic, Social, Societal Transformation, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Headquarters Event.
Stories & Blogs UN (Press Release )“The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development is in peril. For the first time in decades, development progress is reversing under the combined impact of interconnected crises” Amina Mohammed.
Think Big, Be Ambitious ‘to Get Sustainable Development Goals Back on Track’, Stresses Secretary-General, Opening Acceleration Day.
Stories & Blogs UN (Press Release )“You are all part of a great global effort to rescue the SDGs, and deliver the action that our planet and people around the world are counting on. But right now, we are losing the fight” Antonio Guterres.
Better Data ‘Indispensable Scaffolding That Supports Progress across All Sustainable Development Goals, Stresses Deputy Secretary-General.
Stories & Blogs UN (Press Release )“Our world is confronting a cascade of crises that are undermining hard-won development gains and threatening lives and livelihoods everywhere” Amina Mohammed.