Introduction The impacts of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region threaten to undo hard-won gains in sustainable development that countries have made in recent decades. Climate change is putting...
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Introduction The impacts of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region threaten to undo hard-won gains in sustainable development that countries have made in recent decades. Climate change is putting...
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The Population Data Sheet, published annually by ESCAP, features a range of key indicators on population and development. The focus is on population size, structure and growth rates, as well as...
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COUNTRIES/TERRITORIES REQUIRING EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE FOR FOOD FAO assesses that globally 46 countries/territories, including 33 in Africa, ten in Asia, two in Latin America and the Caribbean and one...
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1. Asian Disaster Reduction Center The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) was established in 1998 as a regional initiative aimed at enhancing disaster resilience, building safer communities, and...
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This is a study on the provision of public childcare across 48 countries in Asia and the Pacific. The report calls for greater investments in quality, accessible, affordable childcare that provides...
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HIGHLIGHTS Asia in the Global Transition to Net Zero 1 Asia’s Special Stake in the Global Climate Crisis Developing Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change. Given its geographic features and...
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Threat of El Niño looms, FAO prepares anticipatory actions with Members and partners Weather reversal pattern points to higher drought risks in southern Africa and Central America and Far East Asia ...
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ADB Operations Reach $20.5 Billion in 2022, Addressing Crises, Building Resilience MANILA, PHILIPPINES (24 April 2023) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) committed $20.5 billion from its own...
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ADB Forecasts 4.8% Growth for Asia and Pacific in 2023 and 2024 MANILA, PHILIPPINES (4 April 2023) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecasts faster growth for developing economies in Asia and the...
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Global Crises Further Threaten Progress on SDGs: ADB–UN Report MANILA, PHILIPPINES (27 March 2023) — The convergence of multiple global crises is further jeopardizing Asia and the Pacific’s ability...
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1. Asian Disaster Reduction Center Established in 1998, the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) is a regional initiative aimed at enhancing disaster resilience, building safer communities, and...
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New UN report reveals that climate pledges by countries in the Asia-Pacific are off track with the 1.5°C pathway As typhoons, floods, heatwaves and droughts in the Asia-Pacific region highlight the...
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Overview: In East Africa, harvest finalized for secondary Belg crops in Ethiopia under poor conditions, and conditions are mixed for Meher season cereals due to rainfall deficits, flooding, and...
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Overview: In East Africa, harvest is underway for secondary Belg crops in Ethiopia under poor conditions, and conditions are mixed for Meher season cereals due to rainfall deficits and ongoing...
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Pandemics have constituted challenging and recurrent episodes of humankind history. Major pandemics such as plagues, cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis and influenza have afflicted the health and...
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Summary for policymakers Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2022 for ESCAP Subregions: Summary for Policymakers builds on ESCAP’s Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2021, Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report...
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Introduction This report, released two years after COVID-19 began spreading around the world, considers how countries have been responding to this complex and still evolving pandemic, and highlights...
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FOREWORD Inspired by the more than 1,250 voluntary commitments made to address the unfinished business of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development,...
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Between 1 January – 14 October 2021, the ERCC has received 60 requests through the UCPM for personal protective or medical equipment, diagnostic tests, medical teams, medicines and vaccines. 52 of...