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Ecological transition: key events to watch in 2025
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his year, the transition has reached a mature phase. An increasing number of events bringing together businesses, research institutions, and policymakers to devise effective, innovative solutions to drive economic growth, meet sustainability targets follow.
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How global inequalities hinder climate action
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World leaders have gathered for the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. One of their main goals is to align their responses to geopolitical shocks such as floods and wildfires that hamper trade, investment and more.
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Sustainability disclosure for small and medium-sized enterprises in developing economies
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To achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, governments worldwide have intensified their support for integrating sustainability into business operations and capital markets.
The UNCTAD Global Sustainable Finance Observatory (GSFO) reports that by end-2023, 35 leading economies, including all G20 members, had enacted approximately 400 sustainable finance-dedicated policy measures, covering over 90 per cent of global GDP. Sustainability disclosure alone accounts for nearly half of these measures.
Reimagining Official Development Assistance
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Official Development Assistance (ODA) is facing mounting pressure as global challenges such as climate change, pandemics and humanitarian crises demand increasing resources while development budgets are shrinking.
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How strategic sustainability can foster innovation
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.Higher education institutions play a key role in fostering a sustainable culture and future. Using socially and environmentally relevant research, the sector can educate professionals and leaders on the importance of holistic perspectives and practices, as well as on relationships with the natural, human and technological worlds.
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MENA Countries Face Complex Challenges
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As the year commences, war and conflict continue to rage across the Middle East as they did throughout 2024, with Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon at the epicenter of the region’s instability. The Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023 and ensuing Israel–Hamas war is inflicting catastrophic damage on civilians and infrastructure.
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Global growth to remain subdued in 2025 amid uncertainty
The World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2025 report shows that despite withstanding a series of mutually reinforcing shocks, global economic growth has stagnated and remains below the pre-pandemic annual average of 3.2 per cent.
The report produced by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), highlights the enduring impact of weak investment, sluggish productivity, and high debt levels on global economic performance.
Five climate change stories to keep an eye on this year
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his year will be one of the hottest ever. It’ll probably feature horrendous extreme weather, crop failures and a further crackdown on climate activism.
But it’s also a year in which we may see huge progress on renewable energy, a global agreement on plastic pollution, and the next set of global emissions targets.
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Why we need radical action and courageous leadership in 2025
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As the next Annual Meeting in Davos is in sight, a look back on a year rife with conflict and uncertainty, the year 2024 will go down as an inflection point in history, where international relations, entire economies and even the values that underpin our democracies were put to the test. This has left many in the world feeling apprehensive about the future.
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