by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge The simultaneous global economic and environmental crises in recent years have brought into relief the urgent need to separate the unsustainable use of natural resources from economic growth based on industrial production patterns that have been largely...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Access to modern renewable energy services is a key factor in eradicating poverty and ensuring food security. Today, 2.5 billion people rely on traditional biomass fuels (charcoal, dung, firewood) as their principal source of energy for cooking and heating,...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Despite progress to date in reducing hunger in developing countries, 11.3 per cent of the world’s population remains hungry. Roughly 805 million people around the world go undernourished. Approximately 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Hospitals in developing countries face serious problems with health-service quality owing to a lack of adequate human resources, poor management of equipment and medicines, and operational inefficiency. Global development discourse, in the meantime, has...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge It is estimated that some 388.8 million people in sub-Saharan Africa or 42.7 per cent of its total populations live on less than $1.90 a day. The region’s population growth rate continues to exceed the growth rate of regional food production, a...
