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| 2025 | ASEAN has set a target to achieve 23% renewables in its primary energy supply through substantial investments and policy implementations. |
| January 2025 | United States-brokered ceasefire went into effect, with Hamas retaining control over the Gaza Strip as IDF withdrew. |
| 2024 | Hamas temporary committee decides to rule through committee until leadership elections in March 2025. |
| 2024 | Indonesia and Thailand were admitted as new member countries of the OECD. |
| 2024 | OECD established a Part I Budget totalling an estimated 229.9 million EUR, with contributions based on member countries' economic size and membership count. |
| October 16 2024 | Mohammed Sinwar takes over leadership of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, succeeding Yahya Sinwar. |
| September 2024 | English edition of Shigehara's memoirs titled 'The Bank of Japan, the OECD, and Beyond' published by Palgrave Macmillan. |
| August 17 2024 | Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe becomes SADC Chairman |
| July 2024 | OECD announced a transition to an open-access information model, adopting Creative Commons CC‑BY‑4.0 attribution licenses for all data and publications. |
| July 2024 | Roadmaps for Accession to the OECD were adopted for Thailand. |
| March 2024 | Roadmaps for Accession to the OECD were adopted for Argentina and Indonesia. |
| February 2024 | Israeli government presented its first official plan for future control of the Gaza Strip. |
| January 18 2024 | IDF reported that Hamas began rebuilding its military armies in occupied parts of Northern Gaza, restoring fighting capabilities of battalions. |
| January 6 2024 | Israeli government declared that Hamas' rule in northern Gaza Strip was eliminated due to military advances. |
| 2023 | Indonesia takes over the ASEAN Chair, potentially emphasizing economic resilience and regional stability. |
| November 2023 | Israeli forces began invasion of the Gaza Strip, weakening Hamas' complete control of the territory. |
| August 2023 | Continued protests in the Gaza Strip against Hamas, with thousands demonstrating against economic conditions, power outages, and government taxation. Hamas continued to suppress public displays of dissent by barring most demonstrations and targeting journalists. |
| August 17 2023 | João Lourenço of Angola assumes SADC Chairmanship |
| July 2023 | Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip protested against chronic power outages, poor economic conditions, and Hamas's taxation of Qatari stipends for the poor. The protests were organized by a grassroots online movement called 'Alvirus Alsakher' (The mocking virus), representing a rare public display of discontent against the Hamas government. Hamas police attacked and detained journalists covering the protests, and at least one protester was killed. |
| February 2023 | Botswana and Namibia sign an agreement allowing citizens to travel between the two countries using only identity cards, removing passport requirements. |
| 2022 | Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru, Kosovo, and Romania were admitted as new member countries of the OECD. |
| 2022 | Cambodia assumes the ASEAN Chair, likely prioritizing post-pandemic regional recovery and strengthening inter-state collaboration. |
| 2022 | Vietnam achieved a significant milestone with solar and wind energy accounting for 13% of its electricity mix, a dramatic increase from 2017 levels. |
| December 2022 | President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel met with CARICOM Heads of State in Bridgetown, Barbados during the 8th CARICOM-Cuba Summit, commemorating 50 years of diplomatic relations. |
| November 12 2022 | Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged ASEAN countries to abandon neutrality and condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. |
| August 17 2022 | Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo becomes SADC Chairman |
| June 2022 | Roadmaps for Accession to the OECD Convention were adopted for Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru, and Romania during the annual OECD Ministerial Council Meeting. |
| March 2022 | OECD suspended the participation of Russia and Belarus due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| February 25 2022 | The OECD definitively terminated the accession process with Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2021 | OECD reported annual revenues over 700 million EUR during the two-year budget period of 2021-2022. |
| 2021 | Elias Magosi of Botswana becomes SADC Executive Secretary |
| August 17 2021 | Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi takes over as SADC Chairman |
| July 1 2021 | Finance officials from 130 countries agreed on a global minimum corporate tax policy of 15%, aimed at ensuring multinationals pay at least 15% income tax in countries where they operate. |
| June 14 2021 | Hamas announced Issam al-Da'alis as the new prime minister of the Hamas government in Gaza, succeeding Mohammed Awad who had resigned after two years. |
| June 1 2021 | Mathias Cormann from Australia becomes the sixth OECD Secretary-General, serving from this date to the present. |
| May 25 2021 | Costa Rica joined as an OECD member. |
| March 2021 | Khalil al-Hayya appointed as Deputy Leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. |
| February 1 2021 | A military junta in Myanmar stages a coup d'etat, overthrowing the civilian government one day before a newly elected slate of civilian leaders was to take office. The military declares a national state of emergency, imposes martial law, arrests elected civilian leaders, and violently suppresses dissent. |
| January 2021 | OECD Observer website was closed in the first quarter, with the archive made available at www.oecd.org. |
| 2020 | The OECD received the inaugural University Press Redux Sustainability Award from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and Cambridge University Press for developing the SDG Pathfinder, an open-access digital discovery tool for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) content and data. |
| 2020 | The sixth edition of the ASEAN Energy Outlook was published by the ASEAN Centre for Energy, analyzing and promoting regional energy system integration. |
| 2020 | ASEAN's economic growth projection was 4.8%, with continued high greenhouse gas emissions and increasing coal usage in the energy mix. |
| 2020 | ASEAN Banking Integration Framework implemented, designed to expand banking services across the ASEAN intra-regional market and increase financial sector competition. |
| August 17 2020 | Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique becomes SADC Chairman |
| June 2020 | During the Fourteenth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime, ministers agreed to strengthen measures in combating transnational crime in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with particular attention to the increase in piracy incidents across multiple Asian countries. |
| June 10 2020 | OECD exceptionally published the 2020 Economic Outlook to adjust economic forecasts impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic, providing assessments and projections of economic impact including potential scenarios of a second outbreak. |
| May 15 2020 | OECD decided to extend a formal invitation to Costa Rica to join. |
| April 28 2020 | Colombia became an OECD member. |
| 2019 | Asian Trade Centre published a report identifying ongoing challenges to ASEAN Economic Community integration, particularly regarding non-tariff barriers. |
| 2019 | Vietnam began its rapid adoption of solar and wind energy, emerging as a regional leader in renewable energy transition. |
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