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April 26, 2024
Governments from across Asia and the Pacific agreed today to harness technological advancements and digital innovation for sustainable development, with special attention to the region’s most vulnerable countries and population groups. The United Nations ...
April 6, 2024
Despite high implementation rates in various trade facilitation reforms in the region, progress in paperless trade has been slow and uneven, while growing geopolitical tensions and heightened inflation have further made business between countries more ...
February 21, 2024
The 11th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) opened today in Bangkok with a resounding call for countries to take urgent, accelerated actions supported by strong, sustained multilateral cooperation – or risk falling further behind ...
October 10, 2023
The Asia-Pacific region is responsible for more than 40 per cent of the energy consumed and over 50 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions produced globally. Its rapid growth in demand for energy is poised to continue in the coming years. This creates ...
July 18, 2023
We are living in an era of a polycrisis: the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate emergency and...
March 28, 2023
Never before have development gains in Asia and the Pacific been at such risk of being swept away by overlapping and intensifying crises. The Tenth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) opened today in Bangkok with a resounding call ...
June 24, 2022
Koica, ESCAP to cooperate for sustainable development in Asia-Pacific
May 23, 2022
Hasina places 5 proposals to enhance regional cooperation at ESCAP
May 2, 2022
Five students across Asia Pacific presented their ideas and solutions on how youth-led initiatives can realize real environmental, economic and social impact.
May 21, 2021
May 21, 2021 ‘Unique opportunity to develop affordable supply chain’ A vital lesson from this pandemic is that the capacities of public health systems must be scaled up and repurposed, and systemic approaches used for strengthening resilience across all sectors towards disasters. Else, disruptions to the supply chain systems on which various facilities and undisrupted services depend have fatal consequences, says Sanjay Srivastava, Chief, Disaster Risk Reduction at the UN-ESCAP. “As th...