The New Development Bank (NDB) is participating in COP30 (30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC), hosted by Brazil in Belém, Capital of the state of Pará.On November 6, 2025, H.E. Mrs. Dilma Rousseff, NDB President, participated in the Plenary Session of the COP30 Leaders’ Summit.
The programme has already reached over 250,000 beneficiaries to date. With 11 solutions already on the market and 25 solutions in development, the number of beneficiaries is projected to reach 2.7 million peopleMore than 100 public and private partners collaborate at the local, national and global levels, with US$2.8 million in catalytic financing fr...
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay welcomes the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to align its curriculum framework with UNESCO’s 2023 Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development.© UNESCO/Husniddin Ato6 November 2025Recognizing education as a cornerstone of peace and social cohesion, Ms. Azoulay announced UNESCO...
The Fifteenth Session of the ASEAN Community Statistical System Committee (ACSS15), hosted by Department of Statistics Malaysia, was held on 3 to 5 November 2025. The Session was chaired by YBhg. Dato Sri Dr. Mohd Uzir Mahidin, Chief Statistician of Department of Statistics Malaysia, with Ms. Minerva Eloisa P. Esquivias, Deputy National Statistician of Phi...
IMF Staff Conclude visit on the Sixth Review of the Extended Credit Facility with ZambiaEnd-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF’s Executive Board. Ba...
Yuko Yasunaga, Andrii Teliupa, Solomiya Omelyan and Olena KovalovaKyiv, Ukraine, 1 November 2025 – A high-level delegation of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) concluded a mission to Ukraine, reaffirming the Organization’s commitment to supporting the country’s green industrial recovery, resilience and modernization.The...
GGovernments around the world are accounting for nature in their fiscal planning at an accelerating pace, signaling a shift in how economies value and finance our ecological life-support systemsWith support from BIOFIN, more than 30 countries in Africa, and 132 globally, are advancing Biodiversity Finance Plans that can help close their biodiversity financ...
Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, delivered pre-recorded remarks at the 7th East Asia Summit (EAS) Clean Energy Forum held in Fuzhou, China, on 4 November 2025. In his message, he reaffirmed ASEAN’s strong commitment to advancing regional energy connectivity through the ASEAN Power Grid (APG) and enhancing collaborative efforts to mobili...
WASHINGTON, November 4, 2025 – Today the World Bank approved the Technical Assistance to the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) project, also known as RETRADE SAPP, to support increasing and expanding the regional electricity market in the SAPP.The project will help crowd in private capital for transmission and deepen participation and liqu...
New report links poor land and water management to accelerating freshwater loss.WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2025— The world is losing 324 billion cubic meters of freshwater every year, enough to meet the needs of 280 million people annually, according to the first edition of the Global Water Monitoring Report released today by the World Bank. These loss...
