EducationFastTrackinitiativeProgressreport-on aglobalinitiativeto send 100 million poorchildrento school by 2015, andthefundingneeded toachievethisgoal.
It is great that the Global Reporting Initiative is helping more companies to report on their social and environmental performance, but it would be better if more analysts and investors used this information.
In a report last month the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative said significant progress had been made in Pakistan in 2012.
The Director-General also informed the President about the new assignment given by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to UNESCO in the field of a new UN-systemwide science initiative for sustainability, in the wake of the High level Report on Global Sustainability, and the formation of a new Science Advisory Board, to be hosted and managed by UNESCO.