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Governments should provide policy and financial support to industries that shift to remote or noncontact transactions to cope with COVID-19.
Early and strong action mitigates health impact, while recovery measures focus on the long term.
Implementation of a health and safety plan based on international best practices can protect workers and communities from COVID-19 infection.
Experts endorse 10 principles for risk mitigation, which include evacuation plans for medical and quarantine facilities and areas under lockdown.
Using a tablet or smartphone to conduct survey interviews makes it easier and faster to benchmark progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
The poorest of the poor need sustained and integrated assistance in order to overcome the multidimensional problems of poverty.
Preventing and controlling the spread of deadly diseases from animals to humans require a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach.
A “polluters pay” policy helps Seoul reduce household waste going to the landfill by 90% and waste generated by the city by 40%.
Combining materials processed in a single treatment plant offers cost savings and private sector opportunities in sanitation services.
Combining market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services and conditional social transfers, alleviate poverty while conserving ecosystems.