How the Sustainable Development Goals can help cities focus COVID-19 recovery on inclusion, equity, and sustainability
Prior to COVID-19, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were gaining traction among local governments and city leaders as a framework to focus local policy on ambitious targets around inclusion, equity, and sustainability. Several cities published reports of their local progress on the SDGs in V…
UN health agency hails 7.4 billion Euro pledge for COVID-19 treatments
World leaders on Monday pledged 7.4 billion Euros to support research and development for medicines to fight COVID-19 which the top UN health official has hailed as “a powerful and inspiring demonstration of global solidarity”. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was updating journalists about the outcome of…