UNCTAD60 represents a seminal moment, an opportunity to reflect on the lessons learned over the past six decades and forge a new path forward, building a future that is resilient, equitable and sustainable.
UNCTAD will mark its 60th anniversary with a Global Leaders Forum from 12 to 13 June at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, held under the theme "Charting a new development course in a changing world."
The United Nations Secretary-General will open the two-day event, which will feature high-level participation from heads of state, heads of institutions and leading economists and experts.
In the sixty years since UNCTAD’s creation, the world economy has seen the rise of the Global South, the creation of a vast digital economy and unprecedented reductions in global poverty and hunger. But the past decades have also witnessed worsening inequalities within and among countries, more frequent boom and bust trade and finance cycles, a growing threat of climate catastrophe, especially in developing countries, and the diminishing capacity for the world to recover inclusively from crises.
UNCTAD’s 60th anniversary represents a seminal moment, an opportunity to reflect on the lessons learned over the past six decades and forge a new path forward, building a future that is resilient, equitable and sustainable.
