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UN Sec General’s Climate Speech – Response from UNDP, TNC, CI, WRICoalition

In response to today’s landmark speech on climate change by the United Nations Secretary General, Louis Blumberg, Director of the California Climate Change Program of the Nature Conservancy’s California Chapter, said on behalf of the Nature4Climate initiative: “This intervention by the Secretary General is hugely significant. It reflects growing concern in the climate community that the land sector …

UNOOSA and UNDP sign Memorandum of Understanding

VIENNA/NEW YORK, 14 December (United Nations Information Service) – The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have committed to work more closely together in the use of space technology for development around the world. On 6 December UNOOSA Director Simonetta Di Pippo and UNDP Director of …

Addressing legal barriers to fast-track the HIV and TB response in Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 3 August 2017 – Six years after the first Africa Regional Dialogue on HIV and the Law and five years since the report of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law was released, over 140 advocates are gathering this week in Johannesburg, South Africa, to take stock of progress on the …

India’s largest Employability Skills Test launched in association with AICTE, UNDP and CII

India’s largest Employability Skills Test to Commence across 29 states and 7 UTs on the occasion of ‘World Skills Day’. New Delhi, July 2017: Leading Employability Assessment Company Wheebox in association with premier consortium partners AICTE, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Association of Indian Universities (AIU), Pearson Education and India’s leading HR …