2024 Financing for Sustainable Development Report now available
The world is facing a sustainable development crisis.
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2024 Financing for Development Forum at UNHQ!
The 2024 ECOSOC Financing for Development (FfD) Forum will be held from 22 to 25 April 2024 in the Trusteeship Council, at UN Headquarters, New York. Civil society organizations and other stakeholders are key to inclusive, multi-stakeholder dialogues to address the current global challen
2024 Financing for Sustainable Development Report is now available!
The 2024 Financing for Sustainable Development Report: Financing for Development at a Crossroads finds that the world is facing a sustainable development crisis, and that financing challenges are at the heart of the crisis and imperil the SDGs and climate action.
Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2024
The 2024 Financing for Sustainable Development Report: Financing for Development at a Crossroads finds that the world is facing a sustainable development crisis, and that financing challenges are at the heart of the crisis and imperil the SDGs and climate action. It notes that the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in 2025 will be a last chance to correct course if we want to achieve the SDGs by the 2030 deadline. It calls for urgently closing financing gaps through an investment push, for closing policy and architecture gaps to make the international financial architecture fit for purpose in a crisis-prone world, and for closing credibility gaps, translating rhetoric into action to rebuild trust in multilateralism.
Ad Hoc Committee to Draft Terms of Reference for a United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
General Assembly resolution 78/230
28th Session of the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters
The UN Tax Committee strengthens international cooperation on tax matters, domestic and international, with a special focus on needs and capacities of developing countries in this area. It generates practical guidance for governments, tax administrators and taxpayers to strengthen tax systems for sustainable development.
Committee meetings are open to participation by observers from Member States and other stakeholders, including international and regional organizations, academia, civil society, and the private sector.
The SDG Stimulus – a High Impact Initiative to deliver financing at scale to rescue the SDGs
The global economy is facing multiple shocks that are reversing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The pandemic, the fallout from the war in Ukraine, rising food and energy prices, and much tighter financial conditions leave many developing countries faced with impossible choices.
At the halfway point to the 2030 Agenda, and at a time when achieving the SDG is in serious peril, many countries are forced to cut back on essential social expenditure and investment in the SDGs and climate action.
Scaling Up Sustainable Infrastructure Asset Management
UNDESA/FSDO, UNCDF and UNOPS are implementing the UN capacity development initiative on enhancing the resilience, accessibility, and sustainability of infrastructure assets in developing countries initiative in support of the 2030 Agenda.
27th Session of the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters
The UN Tax Committee strengthens international cooperation on tax matters, domestic and international, with a special focus on needs and capacities of developing countries in this area. It generates practical guidance for governments, tax administrators and taxpayers to strengthen tax systems for sustainable development.
Committee meetings are open to participation by observers from Member States and other stakeholders, including international and regional organizations, academia, civil society, and the private sector.