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From office🌡️to💉tests, standard setting often overlooks #women’s needs @UNECE session on #Gender & Standards for #AI stressed that "neutral" tech hides bias. Integrating sex-disaggregated data ensures that AI offers equal benefits & better quality for all rb.gy/scb56q

🌊🌍 #Water knows no borders. The 🇺🇳Water Convention is a unique legal framework helping countries worldwide manage shared rivers, lakes, and aquifers sustainably. From Europe to Africa, the Middle East & Latin America, it’s uniting nations for water security 🤝

💡How should resources be managed in the #energy transition & how does this work support attaining energy security, affordability & sustainability? Learn during the @UNECE Resource Management Week 2026 @UNGeneva on🗓️27 April – 1 May ▶️bit.ly/4swQjJJ

#ICYMI this week marked #WorldHealthDay 🌱 Since the Protocol on Water & Health came into force, 19M people in the Pan-European region gained access to drinking #water @UNECE supports countries to strengthen environmental governance, grounded in #science🔗rb.gy/11cvwc

Industrial accidents don't stop at borders. 🌍 The @UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention is a vital tool for 40+ countries to prevent, prepare for, and respond to transboundary disasters. Safety and international cooperation go hand-in-hand. 🛡️🤝 #IndustrialSafety

⛏️#Mining is at the centre of the #energy transition: @UNECE tools including #UNFC & #UNRMS can help ensure alignment with environmental & social priorities for a #justtransition Join @UNECE Resource Management Week 27 April-1 May🔗rb.gy/mifk4q

Next time you buy a pear or a steak, there’s a good chance it met a @UNECE standard! 🍐🥩 These 100+ standards: ✅ Protect consumer interests ✅ Encourage high-quality production ✅ Improve profitability Check out the standards behind your food: unece.org/trade/working-…

On 20 April, in the margins of #RFSD2026, @UNEP_Europe, @GENetwork, @UNECE & partners are organizing side events advancing sustainable development & #2030Agenda: 💡 SDGs & Education for #SustainableDevelopment 📖 Education for Biodiversity & #KMGBF ▶️ regionalforum.unece.org/events/regiona…

UNECE Region on track to achieve 15% of SDGs targets: report Read ➡️ sdg.iisd.org/news/unece-reg… @UNECE #SDGs #sustdev

Ever notice the codes on the side of a train? 🧐 They aren't just random numbers. @UNECE ’s rules act like a global ID for trains. Why does this matter? It lowers the cost of financing new fleets = modern, greener #transport for your daily commute! 🚆🌍 ➡️bit.ly/3NRb1FC

Mainstreaming #gender throughout the quality infrastructure for #trade ensures that no one is left behind in the development of standards. On 📅13-14 April, the @UNECE Team of Specialists on Gender-Responsive Standards is to review progress & priorities ▶️ ln.run/m2Cxu

Our wellbeing is inseparable from that of the #environment💚 From cooperation to beat #airpollution (result: 600k lives saved yearly) to action for environmental #democracy, #water & health, @UNECE is committed to science-based action ➡️unece.org/biodiversity/p… #WorldHealthDay

Long-term care systems face staff shortages due to #ageing & rising care needs. Join @UNECE Standing Working Group on Ageing’s policy dialogue on 🗓️14 April to 🔍Identify causes 👩‍⚕️Promote new approaches 📑Share good practices ⏰15-16:30 (CEST) 📍Online▶️rb.gy/6s3o17

Building on the🇺🇳Pact for the Future, Sevilla Commitment & Awaza Programme of Action for LLDCs, 10th @UNECE Intl PPP Forum in #Barcelona aims to support these🌏commitments by promoting #PPPs that deliver measurable #SDG impact, resilience & inclusiveness ▶️ln.run/ywZ13

#Podgorica, #Montenegro's fast-growing capital, faces a number of important challenges. To help shape a more resilient & inclusive future, @UNECE is supporting the development of the city's first-ever master plan . Read more unece.org/housing-and-la… @UNECEcities

@UNECE helps countries integrate #gender equality & women’s economic empowerment as a catalyst for sust. dev.🙋‍♀️ 🔹responding to gender-specific challenges of = access to water & sanitation 🔹promoting gender-responsive standards 🔹training 1000s of women in the energy sector

As many prepare for the #Easter weekend, did you know that over $9 bn worth of sheep & goat meat incl. #lamb & $6 bn of eggs were exported globally in 2024 (@ITCnews)? @UNECE Agricultural Quality Standards facilitate trade of these & over 100 fresh & dried produce—incl.🥕 &🥔

Diversity of perspectives & cultural backgrounds of @INTGenderChampions a core value shared with @OIFrancophonie, is essential for embedding #GenderEquality across the multilateral system. Pleased to accept the FE+MALE Award on behalf of IGC Board alongside @Matthewbarbados.

Pleased to share my thanks with Ambassador Darius Staniulis of #Lithuania @LtGva for his engagement & wishing him the best in his future endeavours. I look forward to continuing strong cooperation with 🇱🇹 across @UNECE's normative work.

For the first time, the @UNECE #SDG progress report includes separate assessment of 17 programme countries - 🇦🇱🇦🇲🇦🇿🇧🇾🇧🇦🇬🇪🇰🇿🇰🇬🇲🇪🇲🇰🇲🇩🇷🇸🇹🇯🇹🇷🇹🇲🇺🇦 & 🇺🇿 Progress was assessed on 115 targets, of which 20 are on track, 76 need to accelerate, while 19 require a reversal of current trends