(From left) Solita collas-monsod, professor emeritus at the University of the philippines School of Economics; Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN); philippine Socioeconomic planning Secretary Arsenio balisacan; and Edwin gariguez, executive secretary of the National Secretariat for Social Action, at the launch of the SDSN in the philippines
The Philippines must reorient its economic strategy into one that uses an integrated approach toward sustaining development while mitigating the risk of climate change, an economist from the United Nations urged the country’s socioeconomic planners, pointing to the targets laid out in a new UN development agenda.