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联合国欧洲经济委员会报告显示成员国实现可持续发展目标的进展正在放缓，呼吁重新提供政治动力
今天发布的可持续发展目标报告指出，面对成员国地区各种相互交织的危机，联合国欧洲经济委员会各成员国必须加倍努力，以避免在实现可持续发展过程中的危机加剧。
在题为《可持续发展面临日益严峻的挑战：联合国欧洲经济委员会成员国能否在2023年扭转局势？》的报告中，其描述的局势令人深省。该报告发现，预计到 2030年，在成员国地区（这一地区拥有世界上16%的人口，占据全世界基于购买力平价计算的GDP的41.4%，约占官方发展援助（ODA）总额的83%）内有望达成的目标仅有21个（占115个可衡量目标的18%）。…
Перед лицом многочисленных пересекающихся кризисов в регионе государства-члены ЕЭК ООН должны удвоить усилия, чтобы предотвратить продолжение кризиса в области устойчивого развития, говорится в опубликованном сегодня докладе о состоянии ЦУР.
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Face aux multiples crises qui se croisent dans la région, les États membres de la CEE-ONU doivent redoubler d'efforts pour éviter une nouvelle crise du développement durable, selon le rapport sur l'état d'avancement des Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) publié aujourd'hui.
Le…
Ante las múltiples crisis que se entrecruzan en la región, los Estados miembros de la Comisión Económica para Europa de Naciones Unidas (CEPE) deben redoblar sus esfuerzos para evitar una nueva crisis del desarrollo sostenible, según el informe sobre la situación de los ODS publicado hoy. …
In the face of multiple intersecting crises in the region, UNECE member States must redouble efforts to avert a further crisis of sustainable development, according to the SDG status report released today.
The report, Growing Challenges for Sustainable…
Boreal forests at risk of losing their captured carbon, says new UNECE policy brief
Boreal forests are finally making the news. Also referred to as snow forests and taiga, they are the world’s largest land ecozone, spanning over Canada, China, Finland, Japan, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden and the United States and constitute one of the planet’s largest carbon sinks,…
Aujourd’hui, à l’instar de plusieurs pays de la région, le Niger a confirmé officiellement son souhait d’accéder à Convention sur la protection et l’utilisation des cours d’eau transfrontières et des lacs internationaux, plus couramment appelée la Convention sur l’eau. Cette adhésion à venir…
Today, following the example of several countries in the region, Niger officially confirmed its desire to accede to the United Nations Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, more commonly known as the Water Convention. This upcoming accession…
New rules to facilitate financing and acquisition of railway rolling stock
UNECE’s Inland Transport Committee (ITC) today adopted the Model Rules on the Permanent Identification of Railway Rolling Stock, which will facilitate the financing and acquisition of railway rolling stock leading to a reduced cost for those wishing to invest in the railways.
As the…
UNECE convenes inter-agency group to coordinate assessment of environmental damage in Ukraine
In response to the huge impacts on the environment of the war in Ukraine, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and partners including UNEP, OECD, UNDP, UNIDO, the World Bank and OSCE are joining forces though an inter-agency group to coordinate the assessment of…
Today as part of the annual session of UNECE's Inland Transport Committee (ITC), ministers from around the world adopted a Ministerial Declaration that calls for harnessing the full potential of inland transport solutions in the global fight against climate change. The declaration will give…
Launch of the 2023 UN Global Survey on digital and sustainable trade facilitation
The fifth UN Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation 2023 has been launched by the five United Nations Regional Commissions and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The 2023 edition consists of 60 measures, including two new sets of measures on “…
UNECE’s new Glossary for Inland Water Transport provides a comprehensive list of terms and definitions used in the various fields of inland waterways, navigation and transport of goods and passengers by inland waterways.
This trilingual publication in English, French and Russian…
UNECE and Islamic Development Bank launch the International Transport Infrastructure Observatory
UNECE and the Islamic Development Bank launched today the International Transport Infrastructure Observatory (ITIO), a web-based platform that hosts data on a large variety of transport infrastructure networks, including road, rail, inland waterways, ports, airports, intermodal terminals,…
UN Road Safety Fund launches 2023 call for proposals
The UN Road Safety Fund has issued its 2023 call for proposals, which will disburse USD 4 million to approved projects aimed at reducing road traffic fatalities. The call for proposals is open between 06 February 2023 and 03 April 2023 (23:59 CET).
The duration of submitted projects…
UNECE launches biggest ever international effort to update guidance for censuses
In the largest ever effort of its kind, a multi-year UNECE project has kicked off to produce internationally agreed guidance and advice for conducting the next round of censuses, foreseen around 2030.
Censuses and the information they…
Several economies may face a mild recession in 2023 even as risk of energy shortages this winter declines
Geneva, 25 January – The protracted war in Ukraine, elevated inflation and tighter monetary policies will weigh heavily on Europe’s economies this year, but growth is forecast to…
Geneva and Moscow, 25 January - The economic growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Georgia will contract in 2023, albeit by a smaller margin than was previously expected, according to the United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2023, which was launched today…
Updated guidance published today by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) will help governments to strengthen biodiversity monitoring as a basis for sharpened biodiversity protection policies across all sectors.
The guidance is the first of its kind to build on the…
Stronger fiscal measures needed to resuscitate global economy and support development agenda
New York, 25 January – A series of severe and mutually reinforcing shocks — the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and resulting food and energy crises, surging…