Eight years after the Paris Agreement, finance for fossil fuels continues unabated at trillions of dollars annually. Key points Estimated funding needed for climate action and UN Sustainable...
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Navigating Troubled Waters: Impact to Global Trade of Disruption of Shipping Routes in the Red Sea, Black Sea and Panama Canal - UNCTAD Rapid Assessment, February 2024 (UNCTAD/OSG/INF/2024/2)
Impact of disruption in key global waterways Disruptions that affect international shipping have the potential to reshape global maritime networks and reconfigure the world trading map. Two months...
Un rapport met en évidence le niveau sans précédent de destruction de l'économie de Gaza, qu'il faudra des dizaines de milliards de dollars et des décennies pour la reconstruire
Genève, Suisse, 31 janvier 2024 La Conférence des Nations Unies sur le commerce et le développement (CNUCED) a publié un rapport sur la détérioration économique et sociale à Gaza depuis le début de...
Preliminary assessment of the economic impact of the destruction in Gaza and prospects for economic recovery - UNCTAD rapid assessment (January 2024) [EN/AR]
Report highlights unprecedented level of destruction of the economy of Gaza, which will take tens of billions USD and decades to reverse Geneva, Switzerland, 31 January 2024 The United Nations...
Report on UNCTAD assistance to the Palestinian people: Developments in the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (TD/B/EX(74)/2 [EN/AR]
The latest report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on its assistance to the Palestinian people says 2022 was another bad year for Palestinians. Against a backdrop of...
A new era for Iraqi customs in trade facilitation, with UNCTAD technical support [EN/AR/KU]
Baghdad, 04 October 2023 – The ASYCUDA: Automated System for Customs Data was formally launched this week in the Cargo Customs office at Baghdad International Airport under the auspices of the...
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A Trade Hope: The impact of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (March 2023)
The war in Ukraine sent shock waves throughout the global economy, in particular through trade disruptions of food and fertilizers from two of the world’s main breadbaskets, Ukraine and the Russian...
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The Netherlands commits $1.9 million support to the UN Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance
The funds will be provided during a two-year period on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands. The Netherlands has today signed an agreement to...
La UNCTAD establece acciones para apoyar a los países menos adelantados en la transición mundial hacia las bajas emisiones de carbono [ES/PT]
Un nuevo informe afirma que la COP27 es una oportunidad para acelerar la acción para lograr objetivos climáticos y de desarrollo mutuamente beneficiosos en los países más vulnerables del mundo. ...
Le Rapport 2022 sur les pays les moins avancés : La transition vers une économie sobre conséquences redoutables pour la transformation structurelle - Aperçu général
La CNUCED définit des actions pour soutenir les pays les moins avancés dans la transition mondiale vers une économie sobre en carbone Selon un nouveau rapport, la COP27 est l'occasion d'accélérer...
Least Developed Countries Report 2022: The low-carbon transition and its daunting implications for structural transformation [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
UNCTAD sets out actions to support least developed countries in the global low-carbon transition New report says COP27 is an opportunity to accelerate action to achieve mutually beneficial climate...
Global Investment Trends Monitor: Climate change investment affected by the energy crisis - Risk of a temporary slowdown
Investment to tackle climate change falls amid global crises 27 October 2022 International investment projects addressing the climate crisis have dipped in the wake of global economic headwinds,...
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A Trade Hope: The Role of the Black Sea Grain Initiative in Bringing Ukrainian Grain to the World
Black Sea Grain Initiative offers hope, shows power of trade The renewal of the UN-backed initiative is vital to continuing to drive global food prices down and ensuring food security worldwide,...
Report on UNCTAD assistance to the Palestinian people: Developments in the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (TD/B/EX(72)/2) [EN/AR]
Palestinian economy reels under COVID-19 impact, enduring poverty and unemployment UNCTAD urges the international community to extend sufficient and predictable financial support to the Palestinian...
Report on UNCTAD assistance to the Palestinian people: Developments in the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (TD/B/EX(71)/2) [EN/AR]
Trade and Development Board Seventy-first executive session Geneva, 29 November–3 December 2021 Item 5 of the provisional agenda Summary The far-reaching socioeconomic ramifications of the...
Trade and development report 2021: From recovery to resilience: the development dimension
A. Introduction July 2021 was the hottest month ever recorded on the planet, following on from the hottest year in 2020 which, itself, came after the hottest decade on record. Intense heatwaves,...
Green industrial policies key for developing countries to adapt to climate change
Developing countries are already suffering relative economic losses three times greater than high-income countries due to climate-related disasters. The second part of UNCTAD’s Trade and Development...
UNCTAD15: Building resilience key to prosperity for all in post-COVID-19 world
Productive transformation must be inclusive and sustainable to build back better after the COVID-19 pandemic and avoid a “lost decade” of development. A high-level panel comprising leaders from...
Guía informativa sobre políticas de emprendimiento para personas migrantes y refugiadas
RESUMEN EJECUTIVO Desde 2015, las migraciones han pasado a ocupar un lugar destacado en los programas de los gobiernos y socios para el desarrollo, tras su inclusión histórica en la Agenda 2030 para...
Developing countries use space technology to combat food insecurity
UNCTAD fosters South-South cooperation to build developing countries’ know-how on using satellite data to monitor crop conditions for better agricultural productivity. More developing countries are...