According to a recent inter-agency report, Sustainable Transport, Sustainable Development, sustainable transport means ?the provision of services and infrastructure for the mobility of people and goods in a manner that is safe, affordable, accessible, efficient, and resilient, while minimizing carbon and other emissions and environmental impacts.? Shifting towards such transport system is a complex undertaking. It requires bold investment, smart innovation, and above all, political will and partnerships that work.
The cross-cutting, cross-border nature of transport presents tremendous partnership opportunities, in which all actors in the public, private, domestic and international domains…
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 126: Partnering with the private sector towards a future of sustainable transport
The UN legal identity agenda
The UN Legal Identity Agenda consists of a holistic approach to ensure complete civil registration and universal registration of all vital events, the production of regular, comprehensive and accurate vital statistics, and the establishment and maintenance of population registers and identity management apparatus from the birth to the death of each individual. There should be full interoperability between these functions in a simultaneous manner, in accordance with international standards and recommendations and it is graphically presented below (see figure 1). In March 2020 the Statistical Commission endorsed the United Nations Legal Identity Agenda as an…
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 127: COVID-19 pandemic disruption - Implications on the full deployment of the United Nations Legal Identity Agenda
UN warns global economic recovery is losing steam
The global economic recovery is facing significant headwinds amid new waves of COVID-19 infections, persistent labour market challenges, lingering supply-chain challenges and rising inflationary pressures. After expanding by 5.5 per cent in 2021, the global output is projected to grow by only 4.0 per cent in 2022 and 3.5 per cent in 2023, according to the United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2022, which was launched today.
The robust recovery in 2021 ? driven by strong consumer spending and some uptake in investment, with trade in goods surpassing pre-pandemic levels ? marked the highest growth rate in more than four…
World Economic Situation and Prospects 2022
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically set back progress on sustainable development. From a financing for development perspective, countries are faced with a dual setback ? they have regressed on sustainable development outcomes, and they have much less fiscal space post-pandemic to invest in recovery and the SDGs. As they formulate recovery plans to ?build back better?, it is thus imperative that such strategies include a coherent and integrated approach to financing related investments.
Such financing strategies are a key element of Integrated national financing frameworks (INFFs), a country owned planning tool that provide a framework for incorporating financing into…
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 124: Integrated National Financing Frameworks ? moving towards financing policy integration
This policy brief reviews existing approaches to sustainable investment and explores ways to improve their interoperability. Interoperability does not mean that all systems and tools need to operate in the same way. Rather, there should be clarity regarding how the tools interact, and sufficient comparability and interoperability between approaches so they are usable and accepted as credible across multiple jurisdictions.
Sustainable investment has been the hot topic for the financial industry in recent years, but its impact remains unclear. More and more investors are incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (EGS) issues into their investment decision-making and are marketing…
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 125: Improving compatibility of approaches to identify, verify and align investments to sustainability goals
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