On 19 December 2024 the UN General Assembly adopted, without a vote, the resolution “Promoting the social and solidarity economy for sustainable development” (A/RES/79/213). It follows a first resolution of April 2023, and both build on the 2022 International Labour Conference resolution on decent work and the social and solidarity economy. The text recognises the sector’s contribution to decent work and to the pledge to leave no one behind under the 2030 Agenda. The 2023 resolution had asked the Secretary-General to report on implementation, and a report prepared by UNCTAD with the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the social and solidarity economy fed into the 2024 discussion. That report gathers good practices, lessons learned, challenges and recommendations. UN resolutions are not binding, but they give national policymakers a shared vocabulary and a reason to put the social economy on their agendas. For anyone working on social enterprise policy, the value is that you can now point to repeated international consensus on the topic.