A “first draft” of the future global treaty against air pollution plastics It should be drafted by November, the representatives of 175 countries meeting in Paris decided this Friday after five days of difficult negotiations. He International Negotiating Committee (INC) It asked its president to prepare a first draft of the legally binding international treaty […]
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UN warns new threat to world food security due to Russia-Ukraine war
The United Nations warned Thursday of a new threat to the food safety world market, noting that Russia is limiting the number of ships allowed to pick up Ukrainian grain at Black Sea ports as part of its campaign to force Kiev to open a pipeline for a key fertilizer ingredient to reach world markets. […]
BPI concludes the Aurora project against money laundering
He Bank for International Settlements (BIS) concluded the aurora projectwhich explores new ways to combat money laundering promoting institutional and cross-border cooperation. The BIS reported on Wednesday that its Nordic technology innovation center successfully completed the project that also combines payments data, privacy-enhancing technologies to protect sensitive information and artificial intelligence. Almost all of the […]
Is the treaty against pandemics very timid in addressing inequalities?
Negotiations for an international agreement against future pandemics are accelerating, but some participants fear that it will be too timid against the inequalities in access to medicines, which were exposed with the covid-19. That pandemic revealed the failures of the global health system, and the 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) decided […]
Meet the countries that pay people to move to rural areas
According to him World Bank, Around 56% of the world population – some 4.4 billion people – lives in cities, this figure will increase to 68% in 2050, according to the UN. There are many governments that try to convince people to leave the city and move to the countryside, boosting the economic growth of […]
“We abuse plastic because it is so cheap,” warns UN Environment chief
Humanity abuses plastic because it is so cheap, but an ambitious international treaty would massively reduce our dependence on disposable plastics, says Inger Andersen, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program in an interview with AFP Agency. -What are the main obstacles to an ambitious treaty? Today raw virgin polymer is cheaper than recycled […]
World Internet Day: UN calls for USD 100 billion to reduce the digital divide
The UN asked this Wednesday member countries and the private sector to allocate 100 billion dollars between now and 2026 to reduce the digital divide worldwide, an amount three times higher than initially planned. Some 2.7 billion people in the world did not have access to the internet in 2022, out of a world population […]
UN: Latin America’s economy deteriorated and will grow only 1.4% this year
This 2023, the economy of Latin America and the Caribbean will slow down. Therefore, it will close with a growth of 1.4%, according to the United Nations Organization (UN). The forecast rate for this year is the same given at the beginning of the year. As a result of the deterioration of the economy due […]
Russia remains dissatisfied with grain deal after UN meeting
Russia remains dissatisfied with progress in exporting Russian agricultural products after the meeting held on Friday in Moscow with the general secretary of the Conference of the UN on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Rebeca Grynspan, the Foreign Ministry said this Saturday. “We are still not satisfied with the progress”said the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei […]
UN fears a mass exodus from Sudan, where fighting is raging
The United Nations warned on Monday that more than 800,000 people could flee the violent fighting that devastated Sudan, where shots and explosions once again shook the territory despite a new truce announced by the army and paramilitaries. In the capital Khartoum, with five million inhabitants, “fighter planes fly over”, and in several neighborhoods explosions […]