"DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS - DESA"

At their annual meeting with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance issued a joint statement outlining concrete actions for the future. The group is working with the UN to develop guidelines and products that align the existing finance and investment ecosystem with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNIFEED

Press conference by Mr. Elliot Harris, UN Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, along with Mr. Nazrul Islam, Officer-in-Charge, Development Research Branch, Economic Analysis and Policy Division, UN DESA and Lead Author of the World Social Report 2021; on the World Social Report 2021: Reconsidering Rural Development.

An urgent reconsideration of rural development is needed for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as the current strategies and patterns of rural development are failing to meet either the socioeconomic or the environmental Goals of this Agenda, according to a new UN report issued on Thursday. UNIFEED

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Press Conference by Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, on the launch of the Financing for Sustainable Development Report.

Virtual Press Conference by Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), on a new system of natural capital accounting (SEEA EA) expected to be adopted by the 52nd session of the UN Statistical Commission, organized by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).

UN Chief Economist Elliott Harris said the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) will be a "gamechanger for the way we make policy and it will deeply affect how we think about and tackle climate change and biodiversity.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Press Conference by Navid Hanif, Director of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Financing for Sustainable Development Office, and Daniel Platz, DESA Economic Affairs Officer, on the UN Handbook on Infrastructure Asset Management.

Virtual press conference by Elliot Harris, UN Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and Hamid Rashid, Chief of the Global Economic Monitoring Branch, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), on the Launch of the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2021, by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).