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A new UNCTAD report calls on governments and the global community to ensure consistency across international agreements on trade, intellectual property and climate change to close the green tech gap.

The world’s most vulnerable economies need urgent global action as current crises threaten to reverse decades of development gains.

Climate change is compounding the debt crisis in developing countries. UNCTAD spells out the actions necessary to safeguard the world’s sustainable development ambitions.

Nature abounds in sustainable alternatives to plastics, but companies and countries must work across borders to boost their production and tackle barriers.

Stronger fiscal measures are needed to resuscitate the global economy and support the development agenda.

Delivering the 18th edition of UNCTAD’s Raúl Prebisch Lecture, he called for developing countries to be at the centre of solutions to the crisis.

The country’s ministry of foreign affairs, trade and development cooperation will provide the funds during the period 2023–2026

By Shamika N. Sirimanne, Director of UNCTAD’s Division on Technology and Logistics

Written by Estela Morante, Article No. 99 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°96 - Fourth Quarter 2022]

A new UNCTAD report outlines ways to accelerate a more gender-equal digital economy for women’s economic and social empowerment.