b'PP54. Noting with grave concern that [almost half of the world s population, -US requests Secretariat to update], especially women and girls [, and the elderly, -EU] and people in vulnerable situations, as well as more than four in five people in the least developed countries, do not have access to the Internet, and noting that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic [and climate change -EU] exacerbates inequalities caused by the digital divides, since the poorest and the most vulnerable who are the hardest hit are also those who lag behind the most in access to information and communications technologies, '