Multilateral cooperation and solidarity in global trade is needed more than ever as the world navigates a “polycrisis” of climate change, pandemic, economic slowdown, inflation, food insecurity, and depletion of the oceans' resources, the World Trade Organisation Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told an outreach for Southeast Asian and Pacific journalists yesterday.
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Tuesday 2 May 2017
Stockholm, Sweden
Women need policies that support their active participation in the emerging green economy, including better education, skills training, and protections against workplace discrimination. Because the clean-energy industry is so new, it could help draw women into non-traditional higher-paid jobs like engineering. Enabling all citizens to meet their economic potential – will require active efforts to promote women’s social and political inclusion. Closing the gender gap is the right thing to do for women and the planet. It is also smart economics. Let’s not miss this opportunity. By Isabella Lövin and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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