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The world has lost around 420 million hectares of forest to other land uses since 1990, with an annual rate of deforestation estimated at 10 million hectares over the last five years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said in its 2020…
Леса Кавказа и Центральной Азии (Армения, Азербайджан, Грузия, Казахстан, Кыргызстан, Таджикистан, Туркменистан и Узбекистан) редко попадают на передовицы международных изданий, их часто забывают во время всемирного обсуждения сохранения и устойчивого развития лесов. При…
The forests of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) rarely make international headlines and are often overlooked in global debates on forest preservation and sustainable management…
UN Road Safety Fund to adjust its 2020 Call for Proposals to a world transformed by Covid-19
The UN Road Safety Fund’s 2020 call for Proposals will be partially connected with the changing priorities of governments as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic with respect to building better and safer mobility. This was decided by the Fund’s Advisory Board at its fourth…
Expanding E-government in Europe and Central Asia
E-government has a key role to play in achieving the SDGs. Governments in the UNECE region are using tools like ICTs, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve public services, empower citizens and ultimately provide a better quality of life. The…
“Sustainable Development Goal 6 on water and sanitation for all is badly off track. This is hindering progress on the 2030 Agenda, the realization of human rights and the achievement of peace and security around the world. Water and sanitation cut across all three…
UNECE publishes guide to measuring the economic value of education and training
Education brings many benefits, among them economic ones: the knowledge and capacities obtained by students and trainees allow them to contribute productively, with the advanced skills needed to fuel our modern economies that rely on specialized services and technologies.…
UNECE to share action to accelerate SDGs delivery at High-level Political Forum
Taking place from 7-16 July 2020, the High-level Political Forum is the central annual platform of the United Nations for reviewing successes, challenges and lessons learned on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The theme this year will be "…
Ghana pushes forward cross-border water cooperation in Africa by joining UN Conventions
On 22 June 2020, Ghana became the 3rd African country (44th Party) to accede to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention), serviced by UNECE, and the 37th Party to the Convention on the Law of the…
Au 22 juin 2020, le Ghana est devenu le troisième pays africain (44ème partie) à adhérer à la Convention sur la protection et l'utilisation des cours d'eau transfrontières et des lacs internationaux (Convention sur l'eau), dont le secrétariat est assuré par la CEE-ONU,…
Some 60 countries have reached a milestone in mobility with the adoption of a United Nations Regulation that will allow for the safe introduction of automated vehicles in certain traffic environments.
The UN Regulation establishes…
The automotive sector is undergoing a profound transformation with the digitalization of in-car systems that are necessary to deliver vehicle automation, connectivity and shared mobility. Today, cars contain up to 150 electronic control units and about 100 million lines of…
Le secteur automobile connaît une profonde transformation avec la numérisation des systèmes embarqués qui sont nécessaires à l'automatisation des véhicules, la connectivité et la mobilité partagée. Aujourd'hui, les voitures contiennent jusqu'à 150 unités de contrôle…
El sector automovilístico está experimentando una profunda transformación con la digitalización de los sistemas instalados en los vehículos, que son necesarios para la automatización, la conectividad y la movilidad compartida. Hoy en día, los coches contienen hasta 150…
As the world tackles the spread of COVID-19 and its unprecedented impacts on economies, societies and the environment, we are all stepping into unknown territory. Everybody, from politicians to parents, from newly unemployed workers to nurses, from supermarket cashiers to…
То, что еще в 2016 году существовало лишь в качестве бизнес-идеи, теперь представляет собой одно из ведущих предприятий малого и среднего бизнеса, которое занимается в Узбекистане производством и экспортом сухой и сушенной продукции. Акрам, молодой предприниматель,…
What started as a business idea back in 2016 is now one of the leading small and medium enterprise producers and exporters of dry and dried produce in Uzbekistan. Akram, the young entrepreneur behind this success story is just one of many examples where four international…
The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time. It is causing disruption and human suffering around the world. Its far-reaching social, economic and multidimensional impacts will be felt across all corners of the globe for some time to come. The…
As governments worldwide declared lockdowns in an attempt to contain the spread of COVID-19, animals and plants started reclaiming spaces previously seen as being reserved for human activities: fish, ducks and dolphins inhabited canals and approached shores, while deer,…
Упрощение процедур торговли находится в центре политической повестки дня региональной интеграции стран с переходной экономикой в Центральной Азии. ЕЭК ООН является надежным партнером, поддерживая усилия стран по реализации своих приоритетов в области торговой политики…