Dr Luisa Cortesi has won a prestigious Veni grant to study how people in Europe experiencing first-time disruptive flooding deal with their new circumstances.

Economic performance in Asia and the Pacific has proved to be quite resilient to the shocks of the past few years – the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and the cost-of-living crisis. In 2023, the region’s economy drove over 60 per cent of the global economic growth.

New York - The latest UN Global Progress Report on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions – was launched today, and reveals concerning data that threatens to undermine future progress on all SDGs.

This study examines the National Greening Program (NGP) in the Philippines, a major tree planting initiative involving more than 80,500 localised projects that have directly or indirectly generated hundreds of thousands of jobs.