"ELLIOTT HARRIS"

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

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

Virtual Press Conference by Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist, and Leila Fourie, the Global Investors for Sustainable Development Co-chair and CEO of the Johannesburg Stock, on the outcome of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance.

The SDG Moment serves to place an annual spotlight on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and will be held at the beginning of the United Nation's General Assembly's High-Level Week.

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