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What is food loss and food waste?
Post-harvest losses account for a majority of the food loss sustained in developing countries across Asia and the Pacific region. Between 15 and 50 percent of fruits and vegetab...
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Circular Economy Overview
Looking beyond the current take-make-dispose extractive industrial model, a circular economy aims to redefine growth, focusing on positive society-wide benefits. It entails grad...
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Circular Economy
UNCTAD’s work on the circular economy started in 2015 with a collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on resource-circularity potentials in large economies like India a...
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Major Groups and other Stakeholders at the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
The UN Major Groups and other Stakeholders is an official mechanism to allow broad public participation in decision-making related to international sustainable development. Ther...
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China Drives Water Cooperation with Mekong Countries
China agrees to engage more closely with its Southeast Asian neighbours over controversial hydropower projects and water resources
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Sustainable Development Goal 6
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
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Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN)
The UN Forum on Forests (UNFF) carries out its forest financing activities through the Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN). In 2015, the Economic and Social Cou...
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Forest monitoring designed for action
Discover the world’s forests through data Explore over 100 global and local data sets to learn about conservation, land use, forest communities, and much more. This page intr...
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Even as more new species are found, Southeast Asia is in the grip of a biodiversity crisis
Rich in wildlife, Southeast Asia includes at least six of the world’s 25 “biodiversity hotspots” – the areas of the world that contain an exceptional concentration of species, a...
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Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
A brief description of Millennium Development Goal 8
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Goal 9: Build Resilient Infrastructure, Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization and Foster Innovation
Sustainable Development Goal 9 addresses three important aspects of sustainable development: infrastructure, industrialization and innovation. Infrastructure provides the basic ...
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A Global Perspective on SDG 9
2017 HLFP Thematic Review of SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation. This background note has been deve...
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Goal 11-Cities Will Play an Important Role in Achieving the SDGs
A vision for cities has never been more important than it is today. More than half of the world’s inhabitants live in cities and this migration trend is expected to continue. By...
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Goal 11: Make Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable
The pace of urban growth has been unprecedented. Around the turn of the century, for the first time in history, urban dwellers outnumbered their rural counterparts, and by 2015,...
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City Prosperity Initiative
UN-Habitat’s City Prosperity Initiative (CPI) is a global initiative that enables city authorities, as well as local and national stakeholders, to identify opportunities and pot...
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Land consolidation for poor people in Vietnam: Report summary
The research employs case studies to grasp the processes and forms of ongoing land consolidation, factors affecting land consolidation, viewpoints on land consolidation and impa...
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The ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment (AWGCME)
Description of the ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment.
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SEAFDEC Initiatives Toward Sustainable Development of Fisheries in ASEAN Region
Description, scope, deliverables, and resources mobilized for SEAFDEC's implementation of SDG 14.
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About SEAFDEC
Description of SEAFDEC.
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SDGs WEEK: Global Water Partnership Southeast Asia's Significant Contribution in Networking Session. 27 November – 1 December 2017 Bangkok, Thailand.
Asia and the Pacific has made impressive progress towards achieving several sustainable development goals including poverty alleviation, education and economic growth. At the sa...