The World of International Organizations
Underpinning the world’s businesses, economy and trade are international organizations such as the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, United Nations and World Trade Organization. Others set standards ranging from labor to industrial and commercial uses, or impact fundamentals like health, food and agriculture.
May 12, 2021
Facebook’s global digital currency project is abandoning Switzerland as its hoped-for regulatory home and planning to launch a U.S.-based payment system.
May 10, 2021
Recycling of rare elements will be crucial to ensure adequate supplies for low-carbon technologies, a two-year E.U.-funded project concluded.
May 5, 2021
The United States and WTO chief backed waivers to vaccine patent protections aimed at speeding efforts to end the coronavirus pandemic.
May 3, 2021
Global online sales among seven major economies jumped to almost one-fifth of all retail sales last year during the pandemic, UNCTAD reported.
April 23, 2021
A two-day global climate summit hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden ended with leaders and companies pledging to decarbonize the world economy.
April 21, 2021
The E.U. proposed new rules that would require publicly-listed and large private companies to report information on their environmental and social impacts.
March 31, 2021
Old-growth tropical forest losses rose 12 percent in 2020 accelerated by commerce and climate-related factors, according to Global Forest Watch.
March 4, 2021
Machine learning applications that use big data are increasingly helping central banks to conduct research and make decisions, according to a new BIS paper.
February 21, 2021
The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency and Iranian top officials announced Tehran will give international inspectors reduced access to nuclear sites.
February 19, 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron led a chorus of world leaders and advocates in celebrating the United States’ official return to the 2015 Paris Agreement.