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Pakistan has the highest rate of urbanisation in South Asia. According to the 2017 Population Census, 36.4% of the population lives in urban areas. The UN Population Division estimates that, by 2025, ...

Since the launch of the Rural Revitalization Strategy in 2017, China has implemented a series of targeted policies and initiatives to drive rural development, strengthen agricultural modernization, ...

Generation Trust: A Global Climate Story in the Making is a new documentary by Youth4Climate, an initiative co-led by UNDP and the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, following ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ...

A new UNDP report titled “Disruption, Diversification, and Divergence: Adapting Development Strategy to a Shifting Trade Landscape in Asia and the Pacific” warns that Asia-Pacific countries are ...

The Peoples’ Climate Vote is the world’s largest standalone public opinion survey on climate change. It serves as a platform for people to express their concerns and needs on climate change to world ...

The SDGs are a global pledge to end to poverty, reduce inequality and protect our planet for future generations, by the year 2030. This calls for unprecedented investments and cooperation across all ...

This discussion paper examines how drug policy affects sustainable development, human rights, governance, health, and the environment. It underscores that punitive enforcement has largely failed, ...

UNDP’s flagship report, The Next Great Divergence: Why AI May Widen Inequality Between Countries, highlights how these pressures are playing out most visibly in Asia and the Pacific, a region marked ...

Countries in the Gulf region, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Small Island Developing States are uniquely vulnerable, the brief reveals. New York City, 13 April 2026 - Ongoing military escalation in the ...

This report demonstrates how nature‐based solutions offer a vital means to address many of the world’s water challenges while delivering benefits vital to all aspects of sustainable development.