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Global growth has slowed sharply, and the risk of financial stress in emerging market and developing economies is intensifying amid elevated global interest rates, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report. WORLD BANK

Presenting the Secretary-General’s policy brief on Brief on the international financial architecture, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development Navid Hanif said “the current international financial system is not delivering the long term stable and affordable financing required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and combat, climate change.” UNIFEED

Of the roughly 140 targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), only about 10 percent are on track to be reached by 2030, close to half are moderately or severely off track, and some 30 percent have either seen no movement or regressed below the 2015 baseline, according to a new UN report. UNIFEED

Marking the International Mother Earth Day, the President of the General Assembly said, “As humans, we are latecomers, new tenants of this world. Tenants with short term leases but with particular responsibilities.” UNIFEED

The General Assembly adopted by consensus its annual resolution on breaking the link between armed conflict and the illicit trade of rough diamonds. UNIFEED

Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), said that progress on transboundary water cooperation “is badly off track.” UNIFEED

Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, said that water “is the element that connects 90 percent of disasters around the world. And with climate change, it is increasingly difficult for communities to manage water-related disaster risks.” UNIFEED

On the margins of the United Nations 2023 Water conference an African Union (AU) official said, “the strategic importance” of water “places it in the frontline of national interest,” and can be “a veritable tool for both economic growth and stability.” UNIFEED

On the sidelines of the UN 2023 Water conference, delegates discussed how to advance transboundary water cooperation through the application of international water law principles at basin and regional levels. UNIFEED

Briefing reporters on the upcoming Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries, a UN official said, “How we help the most vulnerable member states through this period of peril is a litmus test for the idea of leaving no one behind and, indeed, for our global commitment to solidarity and cooperation.” UNIFEED