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Commodity dependence: 5 things you need to know

Commodity dependence: 5 things you need to know

Grynspan: High cost of finance stifles development, deepens inequalities

Grynspan: High cost of finance stifles development, deepens inequalities

Global trade grows 3.3% in 2024, driven by a 7% rise in trade in services

Global trade grows 3.3% in 2024, driven by a 7% rise in trade in services

Commodities forum explores reshaping trade and value chains amid climate crisis

Commodities forum explores reshaping trade and value chains amid climate crisis

Global trade set to hit record $33 trillion by year-end

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Global trade set to hit record $33 trillion by year-end

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Commodity dependence: 5 things you need to know

Commodity dependence: 5 things you need to know

Grynspan: High cost of finance stifles development, deepens inequalities

Grynspan: High cost of finance stifles development, deepens inequalities

Global trade grows 3.3% in 2024, driven by a 7% rise in trade in services

Global trade grows 3.3% in 2024, driven by a 7% rise in trade in services

Commodities forum explores reshaping trade and value chains amid climate crisis

Commodities forum explores reshaping trade and value chains amid climate crisis

Featured publications

Cover image for Global Trade Update (December 2024)

Global Trade Update (December 2024)

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The Least Developed Countries Report 2024: Leveraging carbon markets for development

Cover image for Trade and Development Report 2024: Rethinking development in the age of discontent

Trade and Development Report 2024: Rethinking development in the age of discontent

Cover image for Review of Maritime Transport 2024: Navigating maritime chokepoints

Review of Maritime Transport 2024: Navigating maritime chokepoints

Cover image for The New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance

The New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance

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Countries agree $300 billion by 2035 for new climate finance goal – what next?

10 December 2024

Countries agree $300 billion by 2035 for new climate finance goal – what next?

6 December 2024

Developing economies surpass $1 trillion mark in digitally deliverable services exports

28 November 2024

New data tracks global trade in non-plastic substitutes

27 November 2024

Organic residues: A sustainable solution to plastic pollution and development

25 November 2024

Empowering women digital entrepreneurs in South Asia

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Data visualizations

Critical minerals boom brings opportunities and risks for developing countries

Critical minerals boom brings opportunities and risks for developing countries

The glaring inequality of income and CO2 emissions

The glaring inequality of income and CO2 emissions

A drop in the ocean: Carbon markets have provided limited finance for least developed countries

A drop in the ocean: Carbon markets have provided limited finance for least developed countries

Electricity use by 13 of the world’s largest data centre operators

Electricity use by 13 of the world’s largest data centre operators

Shifting investment patterns: 5 key FDI trends and their impact on development

Shifting investment patterns: 5 key FDI trends and their impact on development

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Meetings and events

High-level International Investment Agreements Conference 2024

12 December 2024

High-level International Investment Agreements Conference 2024

2 – 13 December 2024

Fifty-second regional course on key issues on the international economic agenda

Islamabad, Pakistan

10 – 12 December 2024

Validation workshop for Cabo Verde’s National AfCFTA Implementation Strategy and SMEs capacity building

Praia, Cape Verde

12 – 15 December 2024

Empretec Training-of-Trainers (ToT) Workshop

12 December 2024

High-level International Investment Agreements Conference 2024

13 December 2024

AI Governance for Public Good

Hybrid (Palais des Nations, Geneva), Switzerland

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Videos and podcasts

UNCTAD's 60th anniversary: Forward together

The Least Developed Countries Report 2024: Leveraging carbon markets for development

Trade and Development Report 2024: Rethinking development in the age of discontent

Powering trade: Why renewable energy needs a push from positive policies

Fashion with a peel: How crop waste is making sustainable textiles and creating jobs

Secretary-General statements

Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of UNCTAD

Geneva, Switzerland

Rebeca Grynspan

Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica was appointed the eighth Secretary-General of UNCTAD on 13 September 2021. She is the first woman to hold this position in the history of the organization.

9 December 2024

Global Commodities Forum 2024

23 November 2024

Third International Summit on Food Security

18 November 2024

G20 Rio Summit - Session II: Reform of global governance institutions

6 November 2024

Intergovernmental working group of experts on international standards of accounting and reporting, 41st session

5 November 2024

7th China International Import Expo: Opening Ceremony

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