Trade : China pushes for electronic payments in JSI negotiations at WTO (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
Amidst the tectonic shifts in global elec tronic commerce and the growing disruption of supply chains, China has issued a proposal on how electronic payments must be conducted in the ongoing negotiations at the World Trade Organization under the controversial Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) on digital trade, said people familiar with the proposal.

Climate : Battlelines drawn on fund & funding arrangements for loss & damage (PRIV)
(Radhika Chatterjee, New Delhi)
In the margins of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on 22 September, a "Consultativ e Ministerial Meeting on funding arrangements for responding to loss and dama ge" was convened by the UNFCCC's COP 27 President, H. E Sameh Shoukry, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, and Minister of Industry and Advanced Technologies of the United Arab Emirates, H. E Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, th e COP 28 President-designate.

UN : Poverty & hunger eradication to miss 2030 deadline by wide margins (PRIV)
(IPS, New York)
When the UN's 193 member states reviewed the current status of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2030, the verdic t was mostly failures - and with little or no successes.

Note to Readers : Holiday Notice (PRIV)
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Due to a national holiday, the SUNS will be closed on 28 September. The nex t issue #9864 will appear on 29 September.