Trade plays an integral role in enabling? the low carbon transition. In this event a high-level expert panel will discuss how sustainable trade can be facilitated to accelerate the low-carbon transition, with a focus on small businesses in developing countries, particularly LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS.??
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Theme: Accelerating implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and building momentum towards the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries
Background
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Enhancing integration of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) into global trade for sustainable covid-19 recovery: The role of digital technology
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Over half a billion people live in the 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs). While not all these nations are the least developed on the planet, they share one key feature: they do not have direct access to the sea.
Globally, 733 million people lack access to electricity. 11 of the world¡¯s 32 Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) are behind in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 ¨C access to affordable and clean energy for all, everywhere by 2030. In many of these countries, less than half the population has access to electricity and less than 27% have access to clean cooking.
One extreme weather event can wipe out decades of development progress in a Small Island Developing State - and these events are becoming more frequent.?
That¡¯s the sobering perspective from Samoa, whose ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Pa'olelei?Luteru, was speaking at a UN-OHRLLS-organised side event to the Ocean Conference.?
Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
May 27, 2022, Bali, INDONESIA ¨C More countries must ¡°Think Resilience¡±, and urgently adopt and improve early warning systems to reduce risks from an increasing number of disasters across the world, a UN forum has concluded.
By Ambassador Peter Thomson, UN Secretary-General¡¯s Special Envoy for the Ocean