Multiple pathways to sustainable development roundtable

Location :
International Environment House II

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WAS FIRST SCHEDULED ON 29 JUNE AND POSTPONED TO 21 JULY 2015.

In June 2012, at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), world leaders recognized the existence of a number of “different approaches, visions, models and tools available to each country, in accordance with its national circumstances and priorities, to achieve sustainable development”, and highlighted the importance of South-South Cooperation as a means by which such approaches can be shared. 

This sentiment was echoed by the United Nations Environment Programme Governing Council, who, in February 2013, called upon UNEP to collect such approaches, and to “disseminate them, and facilitate information sharing among countries, so as to support them to promote sustainable development and poverty eradication.”   

In response to this call, UNEP has for the past two years been working with four countries, within the framework of the project “Enhancing South-South Cooperation - Building the Capacity of Developing Countries to Promote Green Economies”, to document and share their national sustainable development approaches. 

You are cordially invited to attend a panel discussion presenting UNEP’s new report, Multiple Pathways to Sustainable Development: Initial Findings from the Global South, which highlights national sustainable development initiatives being implemented by China, Bolivia, South Africa, and Thailand. The panel discussion will focus on the approaches of Ecological Civilization in China and Living Well in Bolivia, and how they may be able to contribute to the achievement of the proposed Sustainable Development Goals.

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

Welcome 

  • Steven STONE, Chief, UNEP Economics and Trade Branch

Introduction to the SDGs

  • Monika LINN, Princiapl Advisor to the Executive Secretary, UNEP

Green Economy and PAGE

  • Steven STONE, Chief, UNEP Economics and Trade Branch

National sustainable development approaches

  • SHENG Fulai, Head, Research and Partnership Unit, UNEP Economics and Trade Branch
  • LI Haisheng, Director General, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Environment Protection, China
  • HE Mr. Thani THONGPHAKDI, Permanent Representative of Thailand to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva 
  • Ncumisa NOTUTELA, Deputy Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva
  • María Natalia PACHECO RODRIGUEZ, Permanent Mission of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva

Q&A

  • Fairtrade coffee and tea from 13.30

More information on UNEP Multiple Pathways Project

http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/South-SouthCooperation.aspx


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International Environment House II

 

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