"POVERTY MITIGATION"

Second informal thematic consultation convened by Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the General Assembly, to provide the Secretary-General with an opportunity to inform Member States on the thinking regarding the follow-up to the "Our Common Agenda" report, and to allow Member States the opportunity to further consider the various proposals, options and potential means of implementation.

Following the announcement of the creation of a new Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for a Just Transition, which aims to create at least 400 million jobs by 2030, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena said, “there is growing inequalities and asymmetries between the developed and developing countries in terms of vaccines, of wealth, of financing, and we are confronting a divergent recovery” from the COVID 19 pandemic. UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres said, “uneven, unfair recovery” from the COVID-19 pandemic “is eroding trust between the developed and developing world,” and stressed that many developing countries “urgently need a helping hand.” UNIFEED

Experts discuss ways to scale up financing for post-pandemic recovery, climate action, sustainable development, as high-level political forum enters second week.

Experts discuss ways to scale up financing for post-pandemic recovery, climate action, sustainable development, as high-level political forum enters second week.

Health, inequality dangerously linked, speakers warn, stressing exclusion, disparity impeding ability to contain COVID-19, on day three of high-level political forum.

Ahead of the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5), the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, and the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, officially launches UNEP's new report, "Making peace with Nature".

Despite gains in reducing poverty, fuelling growth, Africa still needs international funding, training to overcome development challenges, speakers tell General Assembly at 18th plenary meeting.

Press Briefing by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty.

Outlining top priorities, new General Assembly President highlights critical work in combating poverty, climate change, as he opens Seventy-Fourth session at 1st plenary meeting.