"ELLIOTT HARRIS"

The General Assembly holds a high-level meeting on middle-income countries--the current socio-economic fallout from the pandemic and how it has underlined and exacerbated existing fragilities, with severe consequences for achieving the SDGs.

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

Virtual Press Conference by Elliott Harris, UN Chief Economist, along with Anne Nuorgam, Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and Rosemary Lane, Officer-in-Charge Indigenous Peoples, Development Branch Division for Inclusive Social Development, DESA; on the launch of the State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Volume V.

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.

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).

Elliot Harris, UN Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and Leila Fourie, Chief Executive Officer of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and co-chair of the Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance, hold a virtual press conference to discuss their action plan to scale up investment in sustainable development.

The Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance convened today for its second annual meeting discussing key strategies to scale up sustainable investments globally, particularly in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. UNIFEED