UN / ECOSOC PRESIDENT PRESSER

The 2023 ECOSOC Financing for Development (FfD) Forum will provide a platform for inclusive, multi-stakeholder dialogue to address the current global challenges and advance policies for financing long-term sustainable development priorities, in line with its mandate laid out in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:18
• Production Date: 12 April 2023
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL - ECOSOC
• Subject Topical: FINANCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• MAMS Id: 3034411
• Parent Id: 3034411
• Alternate Title: unifeed230412d

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STORY: UN / ECOSOC PRESIDENT PRESSER
TRT: 1:18
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 12 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

Shotlist

RECENT – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

12 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press briefing 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:
“Global growth in 2023 is projected to be down 2.9 percent from an estimated 3.4 percent in 2022, putting the development finance in a less optimistic position. Countries are facing difficult economic policy tradeoffs, including on financing for the SDGs and taking urgent climate action.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. 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:
“Financing prospects continue to diverge between developed and developing countries, if not addressed, great finance divide will translate into a lasting sustainable development divide.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. 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:
“The only way to move forwards is to develop immediate and long-term measures to finance responses to multiple overlapping crisis while scaling up essential investments in the SDGs. We have to ensure that we take action now and that we do not regret that we have taken action after that. So we need to move now.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room

Storyline

The 2023 ECOSOC Financing for Development (FfD) Forum will provide a platform for inclusive, multi-stakeholder dialogue to address the current global challenges and advance policies for financing long-term sustainable development priorities, in line with its mandate laid out in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.

The Forum will be held next week at UN Headquarters in New York from 17 to 20 April.
Ahead of the Forum, Bulgarian Ambassador Lachezara Stoeva, who is the President of the seventy-eight President of the Economic and Social Council, spoke to reporters today (12 Apr) in New York.

Ambassador Stoeva noted that the global economic outlook remains fragile amid a highly challenging environment. Countries are facing difficult economic policy trade-offs and recent shocks are threatening to further reverse progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

She said, ““Global growth in 2023 is projected to be down 2.9 percent from an estimated 3.4 percent in 2022, putting the development finance in a less optimistic position.”

The President of the Council also said, “Financing prospects continue to diverge between developed and developing countries, if not addressed, great finance divide will translate into a lasting sustainable development divide.”

Both immediate and longer-term measures are urgently needed to effectively finance responses to multiple overlapping crises while scaling up essential investments in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Bulgarian Ambassador added.