UNEP FI developing framework
The UNEP FI is developing a framework for the Real Estate industry to employ sustainable metrics into factors concerning risk strategies and profit formulas. As the real estate industry stumbles to get its footing, the UNEP FI is taking the right steps to mitigate the excessive risk taking which highlighted the 2000’s boom globally and […]
UNDP continues remarkable impact on Philippines
UNDP has had a remarkable impact on helping the Philippines regain its growth prospects. The Philippine’s was hit by one of the strongest Hurricanes in history and suffered both structural and human destruction. Typhoon Haiyan killed in excess of six thousand two hundred individuals of the Philippines. Roads, buildings, dwellings and civic centers were devastated. […]
UNISDR to work with Esri from California
UNISDR (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) decides to work California company, Esri, to map and envisage weather disasters and other modelling as needed. Esri, one of the leaders in GIS technologies worldwide was awarded a one thousand eight hundred cities partnership with the United Nations. “Populations and economies are becoming increasingly concentrated in […]
UN’s Ban Ki-moon and John Ashe address the G77 and China
On January 8, 2014 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and General Assembly President John Ashe addressed representatives of the Group of 77 and China. The chairmanship was handed over from His Excellency, Foreign Minister, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola to Bolivian President Evo Morales. At the meeting Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon reiterated his wishes for the group to focus on […]
Foreign Direct Investment increases significantly for some in 2013
G20 News commends the current Secretary-General of the UNCTAD, Mukhisa Kituyi for this excellent report. On January 28, 2014, the Global Investment Trend Monitor was released showing Foreign Direct Investment flows across different regions of the world. The report makes the discovery that FDI has, in some cases, returned to 2005-2007 pre crisis average levels. The […]