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The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations programme [1] for human settlements and sustainable urban development.It was established in 1977 as an outcome of the first United Nations Conference on Human Settlements and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat I) held in Vancouver, Canada, in 1976.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) [note 1] is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. [1] [2] It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in June 1972.
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations and countries, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for coordinating the actions of member states. [2]
The United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG), previously the United Nations Development Group (UNDG), is a group of 37 United Nations funds, programmes, specialized agencies, departments and offices that play a role in development.
In May 1992, in the run-up to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro that year, a small group of banks, including Deutsche Bank, HSBC Holdings, Natwest, Royal Bank of Canada, and Westpac developed the UNEP Statement by Banks on the Environment and Sustainable Development, and the Banking Initiative was formed.
The United Nations has undergone phases of reform since its foundation in 1945. During the first years, the first decisive change was the development of peacekeeping measures to oversee the implementation of ceasefire agreements in 1949 in the Middle East and one year later in the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan.
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo en Argentina Archived 2014-06-02 at the Wayback Machine; Revista Regional sobre Desarrollo Humano; World Values Surveys at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2010-04-01) eleconomista.com.ar