United Nations Economic Commission for Europe | 44,059 followers on LinkedIn. UNECE fosters sustainable development by translating #GlobalGoals into norms and conventions that impact people’s lives | The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) was set up in 1947 by ECOSOC. It is one of five regional commissions of the United Nations. The others are the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).