SCHOOL CLOSURES COULD IMPOVERISH WHOLE GENERATION
This generation of students now risks losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14 per cent of today’s global GDP, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic-related…
THE BUSINESS OF SUSTAINABILITY: OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIA
A speech by Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, at the Shri Ram Research Festival hosted by the Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.…
REMOTE LEARNING – LESSONS FROM TODAY, PRINCIPLES FOR TOMORROW
Education systems around the world reacted to COVID-19 by closing schools and rolling out remote learning options for their students as an emergency response. New World Bank analysis of early evidence reveals…
EQUITABLE FUTURE CITIES HOLD ANSWERS TO CLIMATE CRISES
Global cities are key to overcoming the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution. A new vision of future cities is detailed in a report released by the UN Environment Programme…
BOLD PLAN TO ENSURE EVERY CHILD GETS A REGULAR SCHOOL MEAL BY 2030
United Nations agencies have announced their strong support for an international coalition aiming to rapidly improve the nutrition, health, and education of school-age children around the world following pandemic-driven school…
SOUTH ASIA FORUM ENDORSES INTEGRATED APPROACH TO SDGs
The COVID-19 outbreak inflicted a devastating blow to the sustainable development aspirations of South Asia at a time when the subregion urgently needed an accelerated implementation pathway for achieving by…
NATIONAL DAY – MALDIVES
Republic Day is a public holiday in the Maldives and celebrates the islands changing from a monarchy to a republic on 11th November 1968. Independence came to the Maldives in…