The idea is to speed up the adoption of a global economic model that more closely aligns with the U.N.'s 17 Global Goals.
GENEVA (AN) — Political leaders and heads of finance, NGOs and international organizations called for a greener global economy, arguing the world can thrive without a purely profit-oriented growth mindset.
As the Swiss sustainable finance initiative drew to a close on Thursday after four days of talks among 1,500 participants, the focus turned to ways of overcoming roadblocks to mobilizing finance for the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The wars in Europe and the Middle East, climate change and soaring national debts hung over the annual talks.
A new U.N. report shows how prioritizing debt over services like health care and education plagues the developing world.
Just 22.3% of all the e-waste - any product that has a plug or battery - was properly collected and recycled in 2022.
Fourteen cases remain under investigation by U.N. investigators, who have met with authorities in Israel.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
