Category: Business

Concrete is the world’s most used material after water and plays a fundamental role in building the sustainable world of tomorrow. At the same time, the cement and concrete industry is working to accelerate its journey to net zero.That transformation will require new technologies, new partnerships, and new ways of bringing innovation into real-world industrial […]

“Destruction is all around,” said Stephanie Hochstetter, Country Director in Venezuela for the UN World Food Programme (WFP), speaking from quake-hit La Guaira, located roughly 40 minutes north of the capital Caracas. “Many people have lost their lives. There are thousands of injured, and hundreds of buildings destroyed or severely damaged,” she added. “People will […]

For many people, ageing is accompanied by familiar messages: slow down, your best years are behind you. Far from harmless clichés, these assumptions shape how societies view older persons and how people see themselves as they grow older.  In many cultures, ageing is still associated with decline, dependency and withdrawal from public life. Such perceptions […]

Emerging decarbonization technologies often stall because traditional insurance markets lack the data and tools to price their risks. If a project can’t be insured, it can’t be financed. And if it can’t be financed, it can’t scale. To bridge this critical gap, InnSure has officially opened applications for the Decarbonization Risk Management Prize. This global […]

The supremely talented Spanish team is one of the main favourites to win the event and its teenage superstar, Lamine Yamal, promises to be one of the tournament’s standout performers. On Thursday, ahead of the first game between Mexico and South Africa, The UN children’s agency (UNICEF) announced that Yamal has been made its youngest-ever Goodwill […]

The Baku Call to Action, shaped by voices from 176 countries, sets out a shared path forward, including: Reframing housing as a system, linking homes with land, infrastructure, transport, services and economic opportunity rather than treating construction in isolation. Confronting interconnected pressures – from rising costs and land speculation to displacement, weak governance and climate […]

At a sprawling urban expo in Baku, visitors paused before giant digital screens flickering with flood simulations, subway control systems and virtual replicas of entire neighbourhoods. Across the space, cities offered a vision of urban life reshaped by artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure and real-time data – a glimpse of what many governments now call the […]

A major new UN report says such efforts are more than isolated successes. With the right tools, it argues, easing the global housing crisis – affecting billions – may be within reach. Released by UN-Habitat and launched on Tuesday at the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13), in Baku, Azerbaijan, the report also points to a […]

His video address set the tone for the 13th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13), which comes at a critical moment as cities grapple with deepening inequalities, rapid urbanisation and a growing climate crisis. Organised by UN‑Habitat in partnership with the Government of Azerbaijan, the forum, which has drawin a record number of participants, […]

How can cities be made safer and more resilient, and how can housing be made more affordable? These are the questions under discussion at the thirteenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13), which opened on Sunday. Over the past decade, many countries have made visible progress: around 160 countries have already adopted or are […]