LLDCs
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Enhancing integration of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) into global trade for sustainable covid-19 recovery: The role of digital technology
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Over half a billion people live in the 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs). While not all these nations are the least developed on the planet, they share one key feature: they do not have direct access to the sea.
Globally, 733 million people lack access to electricity. 11 of the world¡¯s 32 Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) are behind in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 ¨C access to affordable and clean energy for all, everywhere by 2030. In many of these countries, less than half the population has access to electricity and less than 27% have access to clean cooking.
One extreme weather event can wipe out decades of development progress in a Small Island Developing State - and these events are becoming more frequent.?
That¡¯s the sobering perspective from Samoa, whose ambassador to the 51³Ô¹Ï, Mr. Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Pa'olelei?Luteru, was speaking at a UN-OHRLLS-organised side event to the Ocean Conference.?
Source: 51³Ô¹Ï Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
May 27, 2022, Bali, INDONESIA ¨C More countries must ¡°Think Resilience¡±, and urgently adopt and improve early warning systems to reduce risks from an increasing number of disasters across the world, a UN forum has concluded.
By Ambassador Peter Thomson, UN Secretary-General¡¯s Special Envoy for the Ocean
Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) lack territorial access to the sea and face unique challenges in achieving their development goals.
The crippling cost of debt financing for many developing countries has hamstrung their recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, forced cutbacks in development spending, and constrained their ability to respond to further shocks, according to a new report launched by the 51³Ô¹Ï today. ?