{"id":10393,"date":"2020-07-20T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T05:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10393"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:10","slug":"green-economy-covid-19-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/07\/20\/green-economy-covid-19-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Economy &#038; Covid-19 Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every year the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/events\/unep-event\/united-nations-high-level-political-forum-sustainable-development-hlpf\">High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development<\/a>\u00a0meets to advance the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UN System\u2019s agenda on sustainable development<\/a>. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is leading the discussion on urgent environmental issues through five side-events. This article is part of our coverage of the forum\u2019s 2020 edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The side event hosted by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un-page.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Partnership for a Green Economy<\/a>&nbsp;(PAGE) convened leading voices from United Nations agencies and national ministries to assess progress toward an inclusive, sustainable future. All panelists agreed that one feature above all has led to PAGE\u2019s gains and would be critical going forward: Partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asad Naqvi, Head of the PAGE Secretariat, declared that parties are ambitious \u201cto go far, to go fast, and to go together.\u201d Against the backdrop of the ongoing pandemic, that ambition will surely be tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ILO Director-General Guy Ryder stressed that parties to PAGE \u201cstand ready to scale action\u201d so not to lose the gains we have made in this unprecedented moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials from Uruguay, Sweden, and Indonesia contributed a view from the ground, where partnership in action has led to demonstrable advancement. Omar Paganini, Uruguay\u2019s Minister of Industry, Energy, and Mining spoke of his country\u2019s achievement of 98% of electricity from renewables. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/green-economy-covid-19-recovery\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the\u00a0High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development\u00a0meets to advance the\u00a0UN System\u2019s agenda on sustainable development. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is leading the discussion on urgent environmental issues&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}