In view of this year’s United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (UN HLPF) in July 2024 and following the submission of Voluntary National Commitments on behalf of Greece during the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Summit in September 2023 (UN 2023 SDG Summit), Greece presented the UN with an update on its progress […]
At the “Forum on Financing for Development 2024″ organised by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), in New York, on April 22-25, 2024, Greece was represented by the Secretary General for International Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President of Enterprise Greece, Ms. Myra Myrogianni. The Greek intervention at the
Ms Eleni Nikolaidou, Director of Development Cooperation Policy of Hellenic Aid was invited by the Under-Secretary-General of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Mr. LI Junhua, to participate as a speaker in the High Level Panel discussion on the priority theme of the 62nd session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD62),
The World Public Sector Report 2023 examines the role that national institutional and governance innovations and changes that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic can play in advancing progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The consequences of the pandemic and its aftermath threaten to further derail progress on the 2030 Agenda and make the
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Sustainable development prospects continue to diverge between developed and developing countries. The 2023 Financing for Sustainable Development Report finds that SDG financing needs are growing, but development financing is not keeping pace. The war in Ukraine, sharp increases in food and energy prices, and rapidly tightening financial conditions have increased hunger and poverty and reversed
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As part of the UN 2023 Water Conference, the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Greece has organized a side event aiming to explore how we can use source-to-sea management to achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals. The event, titled “Source-to-Sea collaboration: a game changer for the whole water cycle”, will take place on 23 March,
Pursuant to Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) decision in 2006, the Commission for Social Development has included an agenda item on ‘Emerging issues’ in its work programme. Under this agenda item, the Commission addresses issues affecting social development that require urgent consideration or new cross-cutting issues in the context of evolving global development challenges. The
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The meeting of the HLPF in 2022 was held from 5 to 7 July and from 11 to 15 July 2022, including the three-day ministerial segment of the forum from 13 to 15 July, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. The high-level segment of the Council concluded with a final day on
The Report of the Secretary-General on “Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals” will be presented and discussed at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (5 -16 July 2022). The Ρeport provides a global overview of the current situation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using inputs from more than 50international and regional organizations. The
Developing countries still have to regain lost ground from the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has put more countries at risk of debt distress, constrained their fiscal space and hampered economic growth. The war in Ukraine is exacerbating all these challenges. In this context, the “2022 Financing for Sustainable Development Report” identifies a “great finance divide”
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