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08 July 2021

UN Global Compact: business narrative and call for health resilient climate action

An UN Global Compact action-oriented narrative synthesizes key insights gathered through a series of webinars organized in 2020 on...

05 July 2021

FAO host science days side event on water management for food system transformation

In the preparation of the upcoming report on the State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food...

01 July 2021

Billions of people will lack access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in 2030 unless progress quadruples

GENEVA/NEW YORK, 1 July 2021 – Billions of people around the world will be unable to access safely managed...

28 June 2021

The Fifth UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters

Millions of people around the world have been affected and thousands of people lost their lives due to water-related...

28 June 2021

Water Dialogues for Results, Bonn 2021

The Water Dialogues for Results, on 1 July 2021 in Bonn, are about “accelerating cross-sectoral SDG 6 implementation”. T...

24 June 2021

New UNDRR report launched with stark warnings that drought could be next pandemic

The United Nations is urging countries to take urgent action on water and land management and tackling climate change...

21 June 2021

Webinar on hand hygiene in public spaces

As part of the Hand Hygiene For All Initiative, the joint WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) has made a...

18 June 2021

IMI-SDG6 2020 results and plans for 2021

On 28 January and 24 March, the IMI-SDG6 Steering Committee met to review the 2020 results and plan for...

17 June 2021

17 June: Desertification and Drought Day

Nearly three quarters of the Earth’s ice-free land has been altered by humans to meet an ever-growing demand for...

14 June 2021

New FAO discussion paper on water productivity, yield gap, and nutrition

Food system transformation is needed to address the hundreds of millions of people without adequate access to water or...

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