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05 Dec 2024 - Global trade set to reach new high, with opportunities and challenges for developing economies in 2025
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Baku, Azerbaijan11 Nov 2024 - UN Trade and Development drives integrated finance, investment, and trade solutions to confront the climate crisis
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Geneva, Switzerland04 Nov 2024 - Leveraging carbon markets for Least Developed Countries
UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2024/028
Geneva, Switzerland29 Oct 2024 - UNCTAD calls for a "rethink" of development strategies amid global economic slowdown and rising social discontent
UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2024/023
Geneva, Switzerland24 Oct 2024 - Joint report explores scope for coordinated approaches on climate action, carbon pricing, and policy spillovers
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Geneva, SwitzerlandMedia Alert
13 Nov 2024 - UNCTAD’S role in advancing climate and economic justice
UNCTAD/PRESS/MA/2024/017
Geneva, Switzerland
The Weekly Tradecast
Dollars and change: Sony Kapoor on funding our greener future
With the COP29 global climate summit underway, The Weekly Tradecast looks at how to get the money we need for the green transition with economist, finance expert and sustainability advisor Sony Kapoor.
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UNCTAD Secretary-General
Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica is the first woman and Central American to serve as UNCTAD’s secretary-general.
Ms. Grynspan is a renowned advocate of human development, who has helped to focus the world’s attention on relevant issues such as the reduction of inequality and poverty, gender equality, South-South cooperation as a tool for development, and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, among others.
A former vice president of Costa Rica, Ms. Grynspan joins UNCTAD from the Ibero-American Conference where she also led the organization as secretary-general.
