UN / CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
05-Jul-2023
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A high-level interactive dialogue on Culture and Sustainable Development on the theme "Culture as a global public good: Filling SDG implementation gaps beyond 2030" highlighted culture’s contribution to peace and development. UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 5 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
TRT: 02:03
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 5 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
5 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lachezara Stoeva, President of the seventy-eight President of the Economic and Social Council and Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the United Nations:
“UNESCO, alongside partners such as the European Union has been leading the global advocacy for the recognition of culture as a driver of SDG implementation. UNESCO is doing so not only because it's part of its mandate, but because culture is, indeed, essential if we're serious about the implementation of SDGs.”
4. Med shot, meeting room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Eliot Minchenberg, Director, Office in New York, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO):
“We are here to give culture the importance it deserves and to recognize its contribution to peace and development.”
6. Med shot, participants
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Eliot Minchenberg, Director, Office in New York, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO):
“Technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence have raised new concerns, prompting UNESCO to adopt a recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence.”
8. Med shot, participants
9. SOUNDBITE (English) SOUNDBITE (English) Eliot Minchenberg, Director, Office in New York, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO):
“We need culture more than ever to find meaning and universality.”
10. Wide shot, participants
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Echkouna, Film Director, winner of the ‘African folktales, reimagined’ Netflix & UNESCO competition, Mauritania:
“I encourage and suggest a special focus on partnerships like this that promotes local cultural expression in all its forms. Especially communities and countries with shrinking creative industries. I also encourage government partnership on local level to further facilitate normalized and systemized outcome.”
12. Med shot, participants
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthieu Cognac, Senior Multilateral Cooperation Specialist, International Labor Organization (ILO):
“The ILO we express our commitment to work together with UNESCO and other agencies to ensure that the cultural sector is not only a contributor to economic growth, but it is also resilient, sustainable, and an example for decent work and social justice.”
14. Wide shot, meeting room
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
5 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lachezara Stoeva, President of the seventy-eight President of the Economic and Social Council and Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the United Nations:
“UNESCO, alongside partners such as the European Union has been leading the global advocacy for the recognition of culture as a driver of SDG implementation. UNESCO is doing so not only because it's part of its mandate, but because culture is, indeed, essential if we're serious about the implementation of SDGs.”
4. Med shot, meeting room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Eliot Minchenberg, Director, Office in New York, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO):
“We are here to give culture the importance it deserves and to recognize its contribution to peace and development.”
6. Med shot, participants
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Eliot Minchenberg, Director, Office in New York, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO):
“Technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence have raised new concerns, prompting UNESCO to adopt a recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence.”
8. Med shot, participants
9. SOUNDBITE (English) SOUNDBITE (English) Eliot Minchenberg, Director, Office in New York, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO):
“We need culture more than ever to find meaning and universality.”
10. Wide shot, participants
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Echkouna, Film Director, winner of the ‘African folktales, reimagined’ Netflix & UNESCO competition, Mauritania:
“I encourage and suggest a special focus on partnerships like this that promotes local cultural expression in all its forms. Especially communities and countries with shrinking creative industries. I also encourage government partnership on local level to further facilitate normalized and systemized outcome.”
12. Med shot, participants
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthieu Cognac, Senior Multilateral Cooperation Specialist, International Labor Organization (ILO):
“The ILO we express our commitment to work together with UNESCO and other agencies to ensure that the cultural sector is not only a contributor to economic growth, but it is also resilient, sustainable, and an example for decent work and social justice.”
14. Wide shot, meeting room
STORYLINE
A high-level interactive dialogue on Culture and Sustainable Development on the theme "Culture as a global public good: Filling SDG implementation gaps beyond 2030" highlighted culture's contribution to peace and development.
Speaking at the opening of the interactive dialogue today (5 July) in New York, the President of the Economic and Social Council, Lachezara Stoeva, said that UNESCO and the European Union “has been leading the global advocacy for the recognition of culture as a driver of SDG implementation.”
She added, “UNESCO is doing so not only because it's part of its mandate, but because culture is, indeed, essential if we're serious about the implementation of SDGs.”
For his part, the director of the UNESCO office in New York, Eliot Minchenberg, said, “We are here to give culture the importance it deserves and to recognize its contribution to peace and development.”
He continued, “Technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence have raised new concerns, prompting UNESCO to adopt a recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence.”
Minchenberg stressed, “We need culture more than ever to find meaning and universality.”
Mohamed Echkouna, Film Director and winner of the Netflix & UNESCO competition ‘African folktales, reimagined’, said, “I encourage and suggest a special focus on partnerships like this that promotes local cultural expression in all its forms. Especially communities and countries with shrinking creative industries.”
He added, “I also encourage government partnership on local level to further facilitate normalized and systemized outcome.”
Matthieu Cognac, Senior Multilateral Cooperation Specialist from International Labor Organization (ILO), stated, “The ILO we express our commitment to work together with UNESCO and other agencies to ensure that the cultural sector is not only a contributor to economic growth, but it is also resilient, sustainable, and an example for decent work and social justice.”
The debate was focused on the contribution of culture to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals from the national, regional and international perspectives.
Speaking at the opening of the interactive dialogue today (5 July) in New York, the President of the Economic and Social Council, Lachezara Stoeva, said that UNESCO and the European Union “has been leading the global advocacy for the recognition of culture as a driver of SDG implementation.”
She added, “UNESCO is doing so not only because it's part of its mandate, but because culture is, indeed, essential if we're serious about the implementation of SDGs.”
For his part, the director of the UNESCO office in New York, Eliot Minchenberg, said, “We are here to give culture the importance it deserves and to recognize its contribution to peace and development.”
He continued, “Technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence have raised new concerns, prompting UNESCO to adopt a recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence.”
Minchenberg stressed, “We need culture more than ever to find meaning and universality.”
Mohamed Echkouna, Film Director and winner of the Netflix & UNESCO competition ‘African folktales, reimagined’, said, “I encourage and suggest a special focus on partnerships like this that promotes local cultural expression in all its forms. Especially communities and countries with shrinking creative industries.”
He added, “I also encourage government partnership on local level to further facilitate normalized and systemized outcome.”
Matthieu Cognac, Senior Multilateral Cooperation Specialist from International Labor Organization (ILO), stated, “The ILO we express our commitment to work together with UNESCO and other agencies to ensure that the cultural sector is not only a contributor to economic growth, but it is also resilient, sustainable, and an example for decent work and social justice.”
The debate was focused on the contribution of culture to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals from the national, regional and international perspectives.
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