By Olga Algayerova, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) How can we rescue the vision of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and get in shape for Our Common Agenda for 2050? Part of the way forward is without doubt to embrace the digital and green transitions. As we heard at the 70th session of the UN Economic Commission for Europe – UNECE’s highest decision-making body – many countries across Europe, Central Asia, and North America are doing just that to provide fresh impetus for sustainable change. Examples are manyfold. They range from mandatory green public procurement and 41% of investment in Cyprus’ national recovery and resilience plan going to green initiatives to accelerated efforts in Ukraine to ensure public access to environmental information online . Other examples include: innovation for green and climate technology in Israel; recognition in Kazakhstan’s National Development Plan of the strong links between environmental action – including on biodiversity and air quality – and digital transformation, with some 150,000 people already employed in the IT sector; and multistakeholder cooperation in the EU to secure a sustainable supply of the Critical Raw Materials , leveraging UNECE resource management […]