Issues
areas which are dealt within in the negotiations on sustainable development, post2030, sustainable development goals, environment, financing for S.D…
HLPF 2018: Amasai Jeke’s Intervenion on Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies: SIDS perspective
"There is no time to exclude any community, including women of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, our islands are sinking we are literally drowning. Species of all kinds, [...]
HLPF 2018: Cities, Human Settlements, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Human rights obligations, such as under the Convention on the Elimination of all Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) including its general recommendations, must be met at all levels of governmen [...]
HLPF 2018: Energy, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Women’s leadership in sustainable energy production can help influence policy and regulation to protect people, communities and the planet from contamination from open pit mining, strip mining, mo [...]
HLPF 2018: Nozipho Wright’s Review on SDG 7, Energy
The WMG, commend member states and development partners for work done so far to integrate gender issues in energy policies and programmes. Though it has taken almost 20 years to reach this minima [...]
HLPF 2018: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Lack of access to water, sanitation and hygiene services undermines human rights and gender equality, exacerbates poverty and prevents achievement of other goals, including health, education and [...]
HLPF 2018: Nathalie Seguin’s Review of SDG 6, Water and Sanitation
Women’s participation in decision making at local, national and global levels is essential to adopt a new vision of water management urgently needed to achieve water related SDGs. Standards for i [...]
Save the date: Governing Exponential and Disruptive Technologies
The current discussion about the challenge of governing exponential technological change is in line with predictions from the turn of the century that ‘converging technologies’ will unleash mul [...]
Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDG
The third annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) will take place on 5-6 June 2018. For the registration access here. [...]
AHOEEG on Marine Litter and Micro-plastics 2018: Tim Gabriel’s intervention at Item 7 Feasibility and effectiveness of different response options.
"Recognizing that the timeline of these initiatives would not be consistent with the sense of urgency on marine litter and, more specifically, marine plastic pollution, we should also invite UNEP t [...]
AHOEEG on Marine Litter and Micro-plastics 2018: Eugeniy Lobanov ‘s intervention at Item 6 Environmental, social and economic costs and benefits of different response options
"I came from the region of the Baltic Sea, which has been subjected to various contaminants for over a hundred years and is often referred to as the most polluted sea in the world". Eugeniy Lobano [...]