Press Releases / #livelihoods
This 2025 marks a once-in-a-generation milestone for women’s rights and gender equality: 30 years since the world committed to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 15 since the creation …
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Myanmar’s youth ‘on hold’ as education and employment crisis deepens
Myanmar’s demographic dividend is slipping away as disrupted education, shrinking job opportunities, and fragile livelihoods push a generation …
World Economic Forum
Climate health risks put US$1.5 trillion in productivity at stake by 2050
Climate-driven health risks could cost the global economy at least US$1.5 trillion in lost productivity by 2050 in …
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Indonesia launches CRISP project to build climate-resilient, inclusive communities
The Ministry of National Development Planning of Indonesia (Bappenas), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social …
All #livelihoods Press Releases
25 Agustus 2025
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
DENR integrates informal waste workers in solid waste management chain
3 Agustus 2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
As fashion's environmental toll mounts, these small clothes makers embrace sustainability
18 Juli 2025
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP and Republic of Korea launch global early recovery initiative for crisis-hit communities
15 Juli 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN flags low uptake of sustainable trade facilitation measures, support for vulnerable groups
20 Juni 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Enhancing policy coherence to bridge the sustainable finance gap in Asia and the Pacific
11 Juni 2025
30 Mei 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Navigating trade headwinds: Asia and the Pacific must reinforce trade resilience amid global uncertainty
25 Mei 2025
12 Mei 2025
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
How cleaner production bolsters economic resilience in developing countries
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Human development progress slows to 35-year low: UNDP report
27 April 2025
15 April 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Rethinking climate finance to work for women in Nepal’s coffee, pashmina value chains
10 Februari 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
New United Nations, UK project to support shift to electric mobility in Thailand
4 Februari 2025
World Economic Forum
25 countries unite in fight against plastic pollution
14 Januari 2025
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Berita / Perkotaan
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Berita / Karbon & Iklim
COP30 secured a win for civil society – what can future hosts learn from Brazil’s approach to people’s participation?
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Berita / Kebijakan & Keuangan
Taiwan issues new governance guidelines to ease local tensions over renewable energy rollout
A year-long government “sandbox” study identifies recurring conflicts in solar, aquaculture-solar, micro-hydropower and geothermal projects, prompting policy reforms … -
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Berita / Kebijakan & Keuangan
Japan’s push for large-scale solar projects sparks local backlash over ecology, scenery
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Berita / Pangan & Agrikultur
Asia’s banks are failing to grasp growing food system risks: study
Study warns that Southeast Asian and Indian lenders are overlooking major climate, biodiversity, and public-health risks tied to …
