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A new call to action urges countries to make BioTrade a lever for recovery and resilience in the wake of the pandemic.

The project is a point of convergence for conservation and sustainable use of marine resources, and a driver for a blue and green recovery from COVID-19.

A report by the UN Economist Networks says climate change, inequalities, urbanization, rapid population changes and the technological revolution will shape our world over the course of this century and calls for an overhaul of the way policies are made.

International collaboration in science, technology and innovation are pegged to drive sustainable development, but policy needs to ensure this is so.

Written by
Shamika N. Sirimanne, Director, Division on Technology and Logistics, and Clovis Freire, Economic Affairs Officer, UNCTAD

UN agencies launched the Tech Access Partnership in a joint effort to scale up local production of life-saving health technologies for COVID-19.

​UNCTAD presents a case for protecting science, technology and innovation funding during and after the COVID-19 crisis in a new policy paper

Written by Jürgen Schmidhuber
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, NNAISENSE and Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA and Professor of AI, USI & SUPSI, Switzerland

Written by Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD

Written by
Dominic Foray and Gaétan de Rassenfosse, College of Management of Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)