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Articles by Isabelle Durant
We need tourism recovery but crisis offers chance to rethink it
With vaccination advancing in most developed economies, we would have expected the tourism situation today to be significantly better than this time last year. Sadly, it is not. Less than 10 years away from our global goal of ensuring shared prosperity by 2030, we need to kickstart tourism’s recovery for the millions who have been left struggling. We must look beyond the immediate restart of tourism – this crisis is an opportunity to rethink tourism policies and management.
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The developing world must get ready to adapt its trade to climate change
• In the absence of adaptation, developing countries stand to be hit the hardest by trade losses due to climate change. • They must enact adaptation measures to ensure 'trade-climate readiness'. • Such efforts can ensure the economic resilience needed to achieve their future development goals. The Paris Agreement on climate change is a landmark document for the world.
The developing world must get ready to adapt its trade to climate change
By Isabelle Durant, Acting Secretary-General of UNCTAD The Paris Agreement on climate change is a landmark document for the world. However, despite the immense impact of climate change on trade, and the role it must play in our fight against global warming, the word trade is not mentioned once in the agreement. In the space of only 200 years, we have put back into the atmosphere most of the CO2 that nature had spent millions of years absorbing from it. Now we are beginning to see the consequences.
International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development, 2021
In 2019 at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, 2021 was declared the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. Indonesia was the main sponsor of the proposal, which was presented by a global grouping of countries, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippines and Thailand.
Sovereignty on a Changing Planet: Re-Reading Climate Leviathan
What are the horizons of a global system adapting to climate breakdown? What forms will state responses take and with what consequences? Climate Leviathan (2018) maps out possible futures for the global order in a warming 21st century. Amid a pandemic that has shaken international politics, does the authors’ vision of a coming planetary sovereignty – or of the alternatives – still hold?
''Made in Monde'': Time to rethink the system
The spread of the coronavirus is in its full swing. Just a few weeks ago, it was unthinkable that entire cities or regions would be locked down, businesses shut down, schools close, events be cancelled, and some essential products like ibuprofen would become scarce. This has quickly turned into a reality, writes Isabelle Durant. The magnitude of the impact is immense and growing, and signaling to a contraction of world GDP.
Imagining the Transition from the Grass Roots
Positive environmental transitions are not impossible, but they require imagination and a compelling narrative. Although some of the world’s most powerful politicians and policymakers continue to drive a destructive, macho politics, developments on the local level are sowing the seeds of change.
The city that never sleeps is waking up to the rights of rural women
Campaigning for women's rights is very close to my heart. Because of this, I wanted to be present and take part in the debates of the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women here in New York. Time and again, UNCTAD has demonstrated how economic activities, and trade in particular, can create opportunities for women’s empowerment and well-being, specifically in rural areas.
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