It’s World Immunization Week — Amid a Massively Unequal COVID-19 Global Vaccine Rollout Joanne Lu April 27, 2021 It’s been four months since the first country began vaccinating against COVID-19. Since then, more than a billion doses have been delivered in a historic and monumental scale-up of the global vaccine system. Ho...
Could COVID-19 Undo a Decade of Progress on Global Development? Joanne Lu March 29, 2021 The UN says a decade of development progress could be undone by COVID-19. According to the new Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021, published Thursday by a task force composed of more than 60 UN ...
A New UN Report Shows What Countries Are Most Affected by the Global Water Crisis Joanne Lu March 23, 2021 One in five children around the world right now do not have enough water for their everyday needs, according to a new report by UNICEF. The report, published Thursday, found that globally, more than 1.42 billi...
The United Nations Has a New Plan to Measure Nature Like Economic Asset Joanne Lu March 3, 2021 Starting Friday, the UN may begin to measure countries’ economies not just by gross domestic product (GDP), but also by the contributions of nature, including forests, oceans and other ecosystems. The measure ...
For the First Time the UN’s Human Development Index Ranks Countries by their “Planetary Pressures” Joanne Lu January 26, 2021 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published its latest Human Development Index last month. This year, the index includes each country’s environmental impacts, and the results are not good, especia...
This is How European Countries Rank in their Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals Joanne Lu December 11, 2020 Even within a wealthy region like the European Union, it turns out that no country is on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and one of the goals in most need of improvement is No Hunger. That’s...
Countries Where Hunger is a Problem, Ranked Joanne Lu October 14, 2020 Overall, the world has made gradual progress toward eliminating hunger over the last two decades, but according to the latest Global Hunger Index published Monday, progress is far too slow – so much so, 37 coun...
Why the UN Is Making the Case for Universal Health Coverage Joanne Lu October 7, 2020 Amid a global pandemic, achieving universal health coverage may seem like an ambition for a later time. But in a new report released today, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres argues that universal health cov...
Why Biodiversity is a Big Focus of UNGA This Year Joanne Lu September 18, 2020 Ten years ago, more than 190 countries met in Aichi, Japan to set 20 biodiversity targets that they wished to achieve by the end of 2020, in an effort to preserve the variety of living species and ecosystems on...
