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COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 24 September
Top stories: WHO backs COVID-19 antibody treatment; Sweden eyes more booster doses; South Korea reports highest ever daily increase in COVID-19 cases.
Future of Work
Work can be better post-COVID-19. Here's what employers need to know
From navigating vaccination status to supported remote working, businesses have an opportunity to redefine the future of work and boost workforce diversity
SDIS2021
The pandemic has hurt women's health. This is why that's bad for everyone
The pandemic undermined women's and girls’ health and their fundamental rights and we must learn lessons to establish a course for redress.
SDIS2021
There is a way to invest profitably – and help save the world
The 1% SDG Club advocates for just 1% of global private sector capital to be put towards investments that will directly promote the UN's SDGs.
COVID-19
COVID-19 will likely shift from pandemic to endemic — but what does that mean?
Scientists predict that COVID-19 will become endemic. Unlike a pandemic, an endemic virus is constant in a population with largely predictable patterns.
COVID-19
COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 23 September
Top stories: Calls for countries to honour vaccine donations pledges; Cases surging in Syria; Booster dose of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine approved in US.
Advanced Manufacturing and Production
How innovation and commitments can shape the future of inclusive value chains
Responsible and social sourcing can help ensure that value chains are more inclusive, diversified and resilient.
COVID-19
COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 22 September
Top stories: UN Secretary-General criticizes globe on vaccine inequity; Northern Chinese city of Harbin in semi-shutdown; Singapore reports highest new confirmed cases since April 2020.
SDIS2021
Urgency, innovation and partnership: applying lessons from COVID-19 to tackle the climate
Among the most important lessons learned during the pandemic is that public-private partnerships on a truly global scale can deliver against the odds.
COVID-19
COVID-19: This is how we tolerate not knowing what happens next
Liminality is used to describe the paths we navigate when faced with life events. Lecturer Sarah Wayland explains the term's relevance to the pandemic.
SDIS2021
These 3 lessons ensure future-focused leaders don't ignore the present
This piece outlines key ways leaders can tackle the present moment, even while investing in and remaking long-term systems and searching for future-focused solutions.
COVID-19
COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 21 September
Top stories: COVID-19 causing medical supplies shortages in United States; WHO makes call to leaders at UNGA; Indonesia reports lowest daily rise in more than a year.
SDIS2021
How to harness the energy of social innovators for an inclusive recovery
For an inclusive and sustainable recovery, we need to acknowledge and support these sustainability pioneers and their trusted relationships in society.
COVID-19
COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 20 September
Top stories: President Biden to convene virtual COVID-19 summit on UN fringes; England simplifies international travel rules; US FDA advisers vote in favour of booster shots for those age...
SDIS2021
The world cannot afford to leave Africa behind in the post-COVID recovery
The global community has an opportunity to make good on the 20th replenishment of a 60-year-old World Bank programme known as the International Development Association.