Asia Remains World’s Growth Driver, Though Uncertainty Remains High Asia continues to offer the greatest support for the global recovery this year, though headwinds from the resurgent pandemic have dimmed the outlook somewhat. The Asia-Pacific economy will rebound from last year’s contraction with 6…

Tradeoffs for Transformation in the Middle East and Central Asia Since the beginning of this year, the Middle East and North Africa region has made good progress and the recovery is ongoing despite the new outbreaks. Yet, the recovery is uneven, incomplete, and fragile. In the Middle East and North…

Europe's Recovery: Recalibration and Reallocation An increasingly resilient recovery is taking hold in Europe, buttressed by gradual increases in vaccination rates and mobility. The Regional Economic Outlook for Europe now forecasts 5.2 percent growth for advanced economies and 6 percent for…

Global leaders, hosted by President Uhuru Kenyatta, spoke at the launch of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) “State and Trends in Adaptation in Africa Report 2021 – How Adaptation Can Make Africa Safer, Greener and More Prosperous in a Warming World” (STA21) to call for COP26 and development…

The annual Report provides UN system-wide data on the environmental impact areas and management functions identified in the Strategy for Sustainability Management in the United Nations System 2020-2030, Phase I: Environmental Sustainability in the Area of Management. The SUN team are excited to…

Across Africa, the world’s longest wall is being built. Not a wall to keep immigrants out or oppressed people in. Rather, a wall to unlock the potential of millions of people in the Sahel. This is the Great Green Wall – an African-led initiative that the entire international community should throw…

Long on the margins of both scholarly and policy concerns, the countries of the West African Sahel have recently attracted world attention, primarily as a key battleground in the global 'war on terror'. This book moves beyond this narrow focus, providing a multidimensional and interdisciplinary…

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) welcome the newly formed operational definition of One Health from their advisory panel, the One…