Webinar - Aligning the European Recovery with the SDGs - Belgium as a Case Study
This webinar will discuss the alignment of the European recovery plans with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
To recover from the COVID-19 crisis the EU will make €672.5 billion available through its Recovery and Resilience Facility.
To benefit from the support of the Facility, Belgium and the other Member States will prepare recovery and resilience plans with reforms and investments, which will be submitted by April 2021 in the framework of the European Semester.
We will discuss the role of the SDGs in these plans, both for the EU as a whole and for Belgium in particular.
Speakers
- Jeffrey Sachs, President of SDSN and Special Advisor to the High Representative Josep Borrell on the EU Green Deal Diplomacy
- Nikhil Seth, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director UNITAR
- Representative of the Belgian Government (TBC)
- Veerle Nuyts, European Semester Officer Representation of the European Commission in Belgium
- Eloïse Bodin, Policy analyst, Institute for European Environmental Policy
- María Cortés Puch, Vice-President of Networks, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
All discussions will be held in English.