ESCAP in collaboration with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) will jointly organize a virtual workshop on resource mobilization in Asia-Pacific SIDS on June 23, with a focus on how SIDS can mobilize more climate finance, either via ‘traditional’ channels or via innovative instruments such as sustainability/green/blue bonds.

The 2021 Desertification and Drought Day to be held on 17 June will focus on turning degraded land into healthy land. Restoring degraded land brings economic resilience, creates jobs, raises incomes and increases food security. It helps biodiversity to recover. It locks away the atmospheric carbon warming the Earth, slowing climate change.

UNICEF’s 2020 Annual Report underscores how 2020 was a year like no other. School closures, increased vulnerability to abuse, mental health strains and loss of access to vital services have hurt children deeply. But not all children have been affected equally. The pandemic has exposed deep inequalities that have existed for too long, with the worst consequences on children in the poorest countries

'Strength beyond all odds' is the theme for this year's International Albinism Awareness Day and will be the topic to be discussed at Oxford Saïd Business School.