Global economic growth is projected to slow to 2.4% this year, down from 2.7% in 2023 and 3% before the pandemic began.
A gloomy U.N. economic forecast points to more sluggish global growth in 2024, but the U.N. chief says wealthy nations could offer a solution.
Global economic growth is projected to slow to 2.4% this year, down from 2.7% in 2023 and 3% before the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, or DESA, reported on Thursday.
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.
Negotiators must juggle the promotion of health access and global equity with reaffirmation of nations' sovereignty.
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.
