by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge LDCs and SIDS in Asia and the Pacific, and in Africa, share a number of structural challenges and geophysical constraints that result in disproportionately large economic, social and environmental challenges that hinder their development. These countries...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Increasingly, unsustainable practices are placing pressure on natural resources to meet the needs of a rapidly growing global population, resulting in, among other things, soil, water and air pollution, and deforestation. Respiratory diseases and digestive...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Viet Nam has enjoyed rapid economic growth regularly exceeding 6 per cent in recent years. This growth, however, has been based on a limited number of sectors and on export products with low local added value. In order for its growth to continue, Viet Nam...
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 Africa’s population is forecast to double by 2050. Meanwhile, the continent’s average cereal yields have shown little improvement since the 1960s in contrast to steep rises in productivity throughout much of Asia. Over the same period, Africa has...
