GENEVA, May 27 (IPS) – Rebeca Grynspan is Secretary-General of UNCTADClimate change, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine – these crises threaten to derail development for 1.7 billion of the world’s most vulnerable people. The international community must take swift, coordinated action now to put the SDGs back on track.
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