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.??
LLDCs
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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 – 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 – 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