Without more coordinated global action to tackle climate change, addressing global poverty will become exponentially more difficult.
Helen Clark, Administrator of the UNDP, writes that pursuing environmental sustainability is essential for ending extreme poverty and inequity.
Amid geopolitical fragmentation and rising nationalist sentiment, the negotiations leading to the Pandemic Agreement—which was adopted on May 20, 2025 at the World Health Assembly—have shown that multilateral diplomacy is more difficult than ever—but also more vital. For decades,…
Experts have highlighted that the Latin America and Caribbean region is unique in that several countries’ care policies are situated within their gender equality policies (encompassing a root cause approach) rather than being siloed within economic and poverty reduction policies. Recognizing…
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