Sustainability and resilience

In 1964, when UNCTAD was created, the risk of ecological disaster was hardly on the international agenda. Today, the grave threat of climate change, and the immense challenge of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation, have become key development challenges, as highlighted by the UNCTAD Bridgetown Covenant -—
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. We need to rethink the path forward towards prosperity for all that is sustainable and decoupled from both greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation. The crises have exposed the multidimensional nature of the vulnerability of developing economies to external shocks, climate change, natural disasters, and pandemics. The following sections discuss these sustainability and resilience issues drawing on SDG indicators and other official statistics:

  1. Resilience at risk
  2. Can we turn the tide towards sustainable economy?
  3. New data on sustainable oceans, plastics and biotrade offer a tool for global action
Every year of insufficient action to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees, drives us closer to the brink, increasing systemic risks and reducing our resilience against climate catastrophe.Mr. António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, on the World Meteorological Day, 23 March 2023.

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