Home Authors Achim Steiner Achim Steiner UNDP Administrator Read in : English French Spanish Japanese Romanian Serbian Burmese Arabic Portuguese Swedish Kazakh Russian Georgian Uzbek Ukrainian Danish German Norwegian Chinese Blog China a key player in global climate action Read more Speeches Statement International Day fo... Today, much of the world continues to recover from the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused extreme poverty to rise in 2020 for the first time in decades. Read more Speeches The Hamburg Sustainability Con... It is an immense privilege to welcome you to the inaugural Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) -- co-initiated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Devel... Read more Blog Vietnam makes great contributions to human de... Read more Speeches UN Summit of the Future Read more Speeches Second Regular Session of the ... Read more Speeches Statement by UNDP Administrato... The IPC Famine Review Committee’s (FRC) report confirms what many of us have feared and warned about—that famine is not merely a likely and devastating future prospect, but an actu... Read more Speeches Statement by UNDP Administrato... Read more Speeches Statement by Achim Steiner, UN... The IPC report released yesterday sounds loud alarm bells that Sudan is facing the worst levels of acute food insecurity ever recorded in the country, precipitated by fourteen mont... Read more Speeches Statement by Achim Steiner, UN... Read more Speeches Joint statement – Detention of... We, the Principals of the affected United Nations (UN) entities and International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), call for the immediate and unconditional release of all per... Read more Speeches Annual Session of the Executiv... Read more View More