Informal consultations on the "Special Event towards achieving the MDGs" will be held on 6 June 2013, from 10:00 AM to 13:00 PM at UN Headquarters in New York, US. The consultations will allow Member States to discuss the modalities text for the Special Event, as wel as the ultimate focus and message of the event's outcome document.
This meeting, part of the global thematic consultations on growth and employment in the post-2015 development agenda, follows a high-level thematic consultation in Tokyo in May 2012, a briefing to Member States in December 2012, four e-discussions, all of which have been compiled into a draft thematic report on growth and employment in the post-2015 development agenda. The Expert Meeting will invite feedback on the draft report, and provide substantive and evidence-based suggestions and proposals for ways the future agenda can deliver on inclusive growth, decent work, social protection and productive employment for all.
The Russian Federation has set as the objective of its 2013 Presidency of the Group of 20 (G20): developing a set of measures aimed at boosting sustainable, inclusive and balanced growth and jobs creation around the world. The G20 will look at eight areas in particular in 2013: framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth; jobs and employment; international financial architecture reform; strengthening financial regulation; energy sustainability; development for all; enhancing multilateral trade; and fighting corruption. The G20 brings together finance ministers and central bank governors from 19 countries - Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and the US - plus the EU. The G20 Leaders Summit in September 2013 is preceded by a series of outreach events organized in five streams: think tanks; business; labour; civil society and youth.
The third session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Open Working Group (OWG 3) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is scheduled to take place from 22-24 May 2013. The session is expected to discuss issues of food security and nutrition, sustainable agriculture, drought, desertification, and land degradation for 1.5 days, and water and sanitation for the other 1.5 days.
18 April 2013: Over 35 ministers, vice-ministers and senior officials of finance, development and environment met for a High-level Ministerial Dialogue on Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) on 18 April 2013, in Washington, DC, US, on the eve of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund (IMF) spring meetings. As part of a larger group called the "first movers" of NCA, they discussed new methods for valuing nature, reaching beyond traditional gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of economic progress.
This expert group meeting aims to exchange information and promote dialogue among different stakeholders in order to identify perspectives for cooperation to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and their resources. It specifically seeks to: elaborate on the importance of oceans and seas for sustainable development; present and discuss main oceans-related issues and challenges; identify possible new measures and/or highlight existing proven measures with regard to the implementation of Rio+20 decisions and other oceans-related topics; present “best practices” supporting the conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and their resources; and elaborate on how to enhance multi-stakeholder and international cooperation.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) will hold a one-day Special Event to Follow up Efforts Made Towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), during the 68th session of the UNGA in September. This will represent the occasion for leaders to identify actions to complete the MDG process and to provide guidance on priorities to focus on. The date of the meeting has been agreed through consultations and was announced on 14 March 2013 by the UNGA President, during the first meeting on the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals.
29 March 2013: In the latest “Our Perspective” piece, Suki Beavers and Benjamin Kumpf, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Bureau for Development Policy's Gender Team, describe how violence against women can hurt business and development as well as impact women's education, health and participation in public life.
Following the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20) and the UN Secretary-General's report on Options for a facilitation mechanism that promotes the development, transfer and dissemination of clean and environmentally sound technologies (A/67/348), the UN General Assembly (UNGA) decided to hold four one-day workshops on the development, transfer and dissemination of clean and environmentally sound technologies and the connection between clean and environmentally sound technologies and sustainable development. Discussions and recommendations from the workshops will feed into the UN Secretary-General's report to be submitted for consideration by the UNGA at its 68th session. The third and fourth workshops will be held back-to-back on 30 and 31 May 2013. The third workshop will focus on Enhancing countries' capacity to access and utilize environmentally sound technologies through international structures, institutions and initiatives. The fourth one will address strengthening the international architecture for environmentally sound technology development, transfer and dissemination.
Following the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) and the UN Secretary-General's report on Options for a facilitation mechanism that promotes the development, transfer and dissemination of clean and environmentally sound technologies (A/67/348), the UN General Assembly (UNGA) decided to hold four one-day workshops on the development, transfer and dissemination of clean and environmentally sound technologies and the connection between clean and environmentally sound technologies and sustainable development. Discussions and recommendations from the workshops will feed into the UN Secretary-General's report to be submitted for consideration by the UNGA at its 68th session. The two first workshops, to be held back-to-back on 30 April and 1 May 2013, will identify technology needs of countries in the areas of research, development, demonstration and diffusion and options to address them. The first workshop will focus specifically on Science and research and development (R&D) capabilities. The second one will focus on “Moving from R&D to widespread adoption of environmentally sound technologies". The concept note is available on the meeting webpage: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=13&nr=419&menu=1026
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