Green Jobs for Youth Pact
Noting intergenerational promises at the heart of the original Stockholm Conference, panelists discussed how to make the green economy transition fair for young people.
Economics & Investment
Sustained and inclusive economic growth and investment can drive sustainable development, create decent jobs for all, and improve living standards. However, roughly half the world's population still lives on the equivalent of about USD 2 a day. In too many places, having a job does not guarantee an escape from poverty. Slow and uneven progress in this area requires rethinking and retooling economic and social policies aimed at eradicating poverty.
More progress is needed to increase employment opportunities, reduce informal employment and the gender pay gap, and promote safe and secure working environments to create decent work for all. At the same time, private and public investment can be a powerful sustainable development enabler. If delivered in the right way, it can create jobs, build skills, spur innovation, provide essential infrastructure and services, and boost economic growth. More investment on its own is not enough. Tapping the sustainable development potential of investment means increasing the capacity of the local economy and the public sector, reforming framework conditions to make countries attractive investment destinations, and promoting responsible business conduct along the length of global supply chains.
Events and Articles
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Stockholm+50 Action Agenda launch: Transforming global value chains
Three common issues emerge in a report from SEI and WBCSD on how to rapidly scale up green business practices in global value chains, with positive impacts for jobs and our environment.
Moving Beyond GDP: The Case for Wealth as a Core Measure of National Progress
Despite its frequent use as the main measure of progress, GDP fails to account for health, happiness, inequality, and environmental sustainability. An expert panel explored how a focus on wealth could inform policymaking in Africa—and how to make the shift.
Building Post-COVID Recovery around Wealth rather than GDP
This HLPF side event introduced examples of expanded wealth measures and how they can help prioritize post-COVID recovery investments and better measure progress toward achieving the SDGs.
GEF Consultations with Civil Society
Prior to the 60th Meeting of the GEF Council, Secretariat staff and Council members engaged in a consultation with civil society organizations on the theme, “Enhancing Climate Resilience: The Role of Civil Society, and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.”
Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond
Together with the UN Secretary-General, the Prime Ministers of Canada and Jamaica convened to facilitate discussions with national leaders, international organizations and other stakeholders on developing financing solutions that will support countries in recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate its negative impacts on development initiatives worldwide, particularly in relation to progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Launch Event of the GO for SDGs Initiative
The GO for the SDGs Initiative will focus on scaling up the use and adaptation to national circumstances of existing tools, methods and approaches for inclusive green economies.
UN Summits Week 2019
Inside the halls of the UN and outside on the streets of not only New York, but cities around the world where protests were held, the verdict of the people was clear: leaders are failing to address the environmental and development emergency that the world is currently facing.