by World Development Foundation | Nov 2, 2023 | News
London/New York, November 2 – Calling the threats posed by artificial intelligence “insidious” and “dangerous,” the UN chief urged the AI Safety Summit in the United Kingdom to base governance of the technology on the principles of the UN Charter and the Universal... 
by World Development Foundation | Sep 20, 2023 | News
Responding to cascading global crises, the Sustainable Development Goals Summit launches a new phase of accelerated action on the Goals. Following is a press release from the U.N. Department of Global Communications on SDG Summit and Political Declaration New... 
by World Development Foundation | Sep 1, 2023 | News
Heads of states and governments will attend a series of high-level annual meetings of the 78th U.N. General Assembly session in September. The tasks facing them are enormous: massive floodings, wildfires, record high temperatures, the on-going wars in Ukraine and... 
by World Development Foundation | Jul 10, 2023 | News
New York, July 10 – Since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 with the promise to make a healthy and prosperous world for all by 2030, the world organization has seen its progress and efforts to achieve the goals eroded by climate disasters,... 
by World Development Foundation | Feb 6, 2023 | News
New York, February 6 – Citing the inalienable right to peace under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, U.N. Secretary-GeneralAntoniocalled for a New Agenda for Peace through multilateral diplomacy to end conflicts, from the Russia-led Ukraine war and the... 
by World Development Foundation | Jan 12, 2023 | News
Geneva/New York, January 11, 2023 – The Global Risks Report published by the World Economic Forum ahead of its annual meeting at Davos, Switzerland said climate change will remain the biggest and long-term challenge to the economy unless world leaders tackle it...