The Asian Development Bank was conceived in the early 1960s as a financial institution that would be Asian in character and foster economic growth and cooperation in one of the poorest regions...
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Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of the Soil Day - 5 December 2023
A key driver of global biodiversity loss is land use, which involves converting or modifying natural ecosystems to produce biomass for human consumption. A new study explores...
The United Nations University (UNU) is the academic arm of the United Nations and acts as a global think tank. The mission of the Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) is to carry out...
UN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate...
Population dynamics at the global level are slow-moving and demographic foresight to support forward-looking and proactive planning and policy-making should recognise that the global population is very likely to continue...
A new story of the Atlas of Demography illustrates the links between urbanisation and demographic trajectories: the proportion of people living in cities continues to grow in world regions and countries with high...
Major demographic transitions are occurring across all world regions, at different paces and with different implications. Important trends are already visible and others are...
Since the advent of the openly accessible Sentinel satellite data as part of the Copernicus programme of the European Commission and ESA, massive amounts of satellite data have brought disruptive changes...
In a new book, Transformation of our food systems - the making of a paradigm shift, 40 international experts set out the highlights and trends in food production since 2009...