The 41st Annual Conference of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy will convene under the theme, ‘The Marine Environment and UN Sustainable Development Goal 14'. Through Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, the international community agreed to aim to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.”
In the second year of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development follows up on and reviews their implementation in the UNECE region. Focusing on practical value-added and peer learning, it creates a regional space to share policy solutions, best practices and challenges in SDG implementation and helps identify major regional and subregional trends.
The ninth session of the ECA Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD-9) will deliberate on statutory and programmatic matters related to the ECA subprogramme on innovations, technologies and the management of natural resources under the auspices of the Special Initiatives Division (SID).
The Forum will be State-led and open to the participation of all Latin American and Caribbean countries. It will be convened under the auspices of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and will be guided by the principles established for all follow-up and review processes by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the 193 UN member States in September 2015.
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) will hold the Arab Regional Forum for Sustainable Development from 3-5 May 2017.
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The thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP-13), the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (RC COP-8) and the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC COP-8) will be held from 24 April to 5 May 2017.
The President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Peter Thomson, announced that his office will hold a High-Level event on Sustainable Finance in April 2017. This will be part of the ongoing efforts of the UNGA President's office to drive implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) throughout the 71st session of the UNGA.
The sessions scheduled to take place during this two-day Summit will include: the importance of community-centric mini grids in energy access; developing a regulatory framework to drive renewable energy development in East Africa; the African renewable energy initiative: unlocking the potential of Africa’s energy future; attracting capital to develop renewable energy projects; harnessing solar power potential in Sub-Saharan Africa; exploiting the full potential of hydropower prospects in East Africa; wind power, geothermal, biomass and hybrid projects; and energy efficiency and renewables d
The 3rd Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All, or SEforAll) Forum will take place from 3-5 April 2017, in New York, US, on the theme of 'Going Further, Faster – Together'. The Forum will serve as a marketplace to help broker new partnerships and ideas, spur investment and drive action towards sustainable energy and realizing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 (affordable and clean energy). SE4All Partners from across the globe will share their stories about how they are achieving results.
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will hold the annual Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) in preparation for the 2017 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). The APFSD will be preceded by an Asia-Pacific Civil Society Forum on Sustainable Development, on 26-28 March, also in Bangkok.