A staggering 2.6 billion people remain offline, most of them women in developing countries, UN data indicates.
The new forum is being supported by the UN and emerging as a key part of the Sevilla Commitment outcome document.
Mitigation policies are on the rise, including carbon pricing policies, with 75 carbon taxes and emission trading schemes covering approximately 24 per cent of global emissions.
The report further revealed that developing countries were hit the hardest.
According to a new UNCTAD report, developing countries like Nigeria face a staggering four trillion-dollar gap in sustainable development investments.
Ukraine and Russia account for roughly 30 per cent of the world’s exported wheat and barley.
The cost-of-living crisis could spark a “cycle of social unrest leading to political instability,” the UNCTAD boss warned.
