Women are looking for opportunities in business, UN forum told

Nov 02, 2017, at 04:18 am

New York, Nov 1(Just Earth News): Despite overwhelming challenges women face at the workplace, “they are not helpless,” they will follow their dreams, work to the hardest and achieve their business goals, was a core message on day two of a United Nations forum on sustainable development.  

Business-as-usual not an option with future global food security in jeopardy, cautions UN agency

Feb 23, 2017, at 02:04 pm

New York, Feb 23 (Just Earth News): Warning that diminishing natural resources and a changing climate have put humankind’s future ability to feed itself “in jeopardy,” the United Nations underlined on Wednesday that while the planet still has the potential to produce enough food, “major transformations” are needed to make production sustainable and to ensure that all of humanity benefits.

Business must play part in achieving new Sustainable Development Goals: Ban

Jan 21, 2016, at 03:14 pm

New York, Jan 21 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Speaking at the Global Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on the world’s business community to play its full role in helping to achieve the ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which seeks to eliminate poverty, hunger and a raft of social ills, all within 15 years.