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HLPF 2017
The second day of the 2017 meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) started with a review of implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 (no poverty) and SDG 2 (zero hunger). In the afternoon, a thematic review on “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world: Multi-stakeholder perspectives,” took place.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, provided daily web coverage, daily reports from HLPF 2017 and also produced a summary and analysis report, which is available in HTML and PDF.
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Session 4 - Review of implementation: SDG 1
View of the dais during the session
Janet Gornick, Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, City University of New York (CUNY)
Stefan Schweinfest, Director, Statistics Division, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University
Yaw Ansu, African Center for Economic Transformation
Carolina Sanchez-Paramo, World Bank Group
Wellington Chibebe, Deputy General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Yang Zhi, Mayor of Jingzhou, China
Fnu Sudarno, Indonesia
Deborah Greenfield, Deputy Director-General for Policy, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Huseyn Huseynov, Azerbaijan
Session 5 - Review of implementation: SDG 2
Delegates raise their hands as part of an interactive discussion at the start of the session
Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava, Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the UN, and President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Gerda Verburg, Coordinator, Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
Esther Penunia, Secretary General, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development
Elizabeth Mpofu, General Coordinator, La Via Campesina, Zimbabwe
Patrick Caron, Chair, High-Level Panel of Experts of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Meena Bilgi, Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management (WOCAN)
Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Head, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Franco Ruggiero, Argentina
Alastaire Sèna Alinsato, Benin
Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Session 6 - Thematic review - Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world: Multi-stakeholder perspectives
View of the keynote speakers on the dais
Luisa Emilia Reyes Zuñiga, Co-Chair, Major Groups and other Stakeholders (MGoS) HLPF Coordination Mechanism
Jürgen Schulz, Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN, and Vice President of ECOSOC
Moderator Maruxa Cardama, Cities Alliance
Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General, DESA
Sehnaz Kiymaz, President, Women for Women’s Human Rights - New Ways, and Women’s Major Group
Luis Miguel Etchevehere, President, Sociedad Rural Argentina (SRA), and Farmers' Major Group
Verity McGivern, HelpAge International, and Stakeholder Group on Ageing
Louise Kantrow, Permanent Representative to the UN, International Chamber of Commerce, and Business and Industry Major Group
Katarina Popovic, Secretary General, International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), and Education and Academia Stakeholder Group
Roberto Bissio, Social Watch, and Financing for Development Civil Society Group
Moderator Naiara Costa, Together 2030
José Maria Viera, International Disability Alliance, and Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities
Jan Van Zanen, Mayor of Utrecht, President of the Association of Dutch Municipalities, and Local Authorities Major Group
James O'Brien, Volunteer Groups
Rosalea Hamilton, Founder and President, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Technology, Jamaica, and NGO Major Group
Keikabile Mogodu, Indigenous Peoples Major Group
Saúl Zenteno Bueno, President, Fundación Manatí para el Fomento de la Ciudadanía, and Major Group for Children and Youth
John Patrick Ngoyi, World Vision, on behalf of Together 2030
Around the Venue
Delegates between sessions
Representatives of the Women's Major Group gather to respect, protect, and promote the work done by women's human rights defenders
Around the UN Headquarters
Daily report for 11 July 2017
HLPF 2017
Summary report 10–19 July 2017
HLPF 2017
Highlights and images for 24 May 2017
Global Soil Week 2017
Global Soil Week 2017 (GSW 2017) convened from 22-24 May 2017 in Berlin, Germany, and addressed the theme, ‘Catalyzing SDG Implementation through a Land and Soil Review.’ Attended by almost 300 participants, the meeting aimed to develop policy messages as input to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) scheduled to convene in July 2017.
Following the opening plenary, participants held three thematic workshops to explore the following topics: ‘Sustaining and upscaling achievements of sustainable land management (SLM) initiatives’; ‘Right to (defend) land: strengthening accountability at the local level through thematic reviews’; and ‘Protecting land resources for shared prosperity.’ The workshops were informed by the experiences of some of the 44 countries that will present voluntary national reviews at this year’s HLPF, as well as expert contributions.
The two-part “Thematic Review LAB” took place on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning to pilot contributions to the sub-set of seven Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will be the focus of the HLPF’s thematic review in 2017. The LAB aimed to, inter alia: identify progress, gaps and synergies in implementing the 2030 Agenda; synthesize knowledge, and discuss tradeoffs and synergies in SDG implementation;; discuss concrete policy actions needed to achieve the 2030 Agenda; and highlight opportunities for further collaboration and partnerships.
On Wednesday morning, participants discussed five draft policy messages to the HLPF that emerged from the first two days’ discussions and proposed additional changes to be included in the final conference outcome.
During the final plenary session, a high-level speakers reflected on the methodology introduced at GSW 2017 and provided further inputs on how to enhance the usefulness of such preparatory processes to the overall monitoring of the SDGs.
Closing the meeting, the co-moderators thanked the German government for offering to continue its support for the Global Soil Week, and announced that the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) will hand over coordination of the conferences to TMGThinkTank for Sustainability. During a brief ceremony, Klaus Töpfer, initiator of the Global Soil Week, received a Distinguished Service Award from the International Union of Soil Scientists (IUSS).
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB+ Meeting Coverage, is providing web coverage and a summary report of discussions on Wednesday, 24 May 2017, which will be available on this site on Friday, 26 May 2017.
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Closing Plenary
Klaus Töpfer receives a Distinguished Service Award from the International Union of Soil Scientists
Chantal Clément, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES)
Klaus Töpfer, Founding Director, TMG
Jochen Flasbarth, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Jes Weigelt, IASS
Rattan Lal, Ohio State University, USA
Hilary Ogbonna, UN SDG Action Campaign
Marianne Beisheim, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany
R. B. Sinha, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, India
Céline Charveriat, Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
Stefan Schmitz, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), with Klaus Töpfer, Founding Director, TMG
Louisette Clémence Bamzok née Mbadobe, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cameroon, and Ivonne Lobos Alva, IASS
Thematic Review LAB
Acacha Akoha, Benin
Stefan Schmitz, BMZ
Ivonne Lobos Alva, IASS
Johns Muleso Kharika, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Massa Almaz Messele, Ethiopia
Lindiwe Sibanda, FANRPAN, South Africa
Alexander Müller, TMG. Think Thank for Sustainability
Mark Smith, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
José Francisco Calí Tzay, Guatemala
Barbara Unmüßig, Heinrich Böll Foundation
Günther Bachmann, German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE)
View of the room during the lab
Around the Venue
Highlights and images for 17 May 2017
Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2017
The Bonn Climate Change Conference continued on Wednesday, 17 May. Throughout the day, informal consultations and contact groups met to discuss various issues under the forty-sixth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 46) and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 46), as well as the third part of the first session on the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA 1-3). The APA contact group met in the afternoon and evening.
Throughout the day, mandated events convened. The Technical Expert Meeting on adaptation met all day, focusing on how national adaptation plans can enable linkages between national and subnational development planning processes and strategies. In the afternoon, the multi-stakeholder dialogue on the operationalization of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform continued discussions.
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Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI)/Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) Technical Expert Meeting (TEM): Adaptation
Delegates gather for the second day of the Technical Expert Meeting on adaptation
Akio Takemoto, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Musonda Mumba, UN Environment
Beth Lavender, Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) Member
Benjamin Karmorh, Environment Protection Agency, Liberia
Sione Fulivai, Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications, Tonga
Delegates ask questions through an online platform
Delegates share ideas with their neighbors
Delegates during the session
Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) Contact Group
View of the dais during the APA contact group
APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
APA Co-Chair Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia, and Co-Facilitator for agenda item 8 - other matters
Nicolas Zambrano Sanchez, Ecuador, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 4 - adaptation communications
Janine Felson, Belize, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 7 - committee to facilitate implementation and promote compliance
Xolisa Ngwadla, South Africa, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 6 - global stocktake
Xiang Gao, China, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 5 - transparency framework
Sin Liang Cheah, Singapore, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 3 - mitigation
María del Pilar Bueno, Argentina, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 8 - further matters, Adaptation Fund
Delegates read the draft conclusions presented by the Co-Chairs
Raed Albasseet, Saudi Arabia, speaking on behalf of the Arab Group
Andrea Faulkner, Australia, speaking on behalf of the Umbrella Group
Gebru Jember, Ethiopia, speaking on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Ravi Prasad, India
Franz Perrez, Switzerland, speaking on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG)
Majid Shafie-Pour, Iran, speaking on behalf of the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs)
Kim Carnahan, US
Delegates from the EIG
Delegates speak with APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
Delegates from the LMDCs
Delegates from the African Group
Delegates from the LDCs
Delegates from the Umbrella Group
Delegates huddle to discuss a way forward for the APA
Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on the Operationalization of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform
Delegates gather for the second day of the multi-stakeholder dialogue on the operationalization of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize
Grace Balawag, International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC)
Pamela Rocha, Ecuador
Koko Warner, UNFCCC Secretariat
Geert Fremout, EU
Ella Havnevik Giske, Norway
Julio Cordano, Chile
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNSRRIP)
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, IIPFCC
Inka Saara Arttijeff, Sámi Parliament, Finland
Sébastien Duyck, speaking on behalf of Environmental, Trade Union and Youth NGOs, Women and Gender, and Farmers
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa applauds the work done during the session
Francois Paulette, IIPFCC (center), leads the group in a prayer to close the session
Around the Venue
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa arrives at the venue
Delegates huddle to discuss budget issues
SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize, speaks with delegates
Delegates gather outside of Chamber Hall
Horacio Peluffo, UNFCCC Secretariat
Delegates from Austria and Luxembourg
Delegates from Argentina and Saudi Arabia speak informally
Delegates from Brazil
Delegates between sessions
Security staff at the World Conference Center Bonn
Highlights and images for 17 May 2017
3rd Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development
The third session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD 3) opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 17 May 2017. Held in preparation for the 2017 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), the Forum is convening under the theme, “Ensuring inclusive and sustainable growth and prosperity for all.”
Two pre-events were held: the Tenth Session of the Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD-10); and, Preparatory and Capacity Development Workshop for Major Groups and other Stakeholders. CSD-10 reviewed implementation of the 2016–2017 work programme of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) sub-programme on innovations, technologies and managing Africa’s natural resources. Issues discussed under this agenda item included the green economy and natural resources, new technologies and innovation, and climate change and development. Following this, delegates discussed the 2016-2017 work programme, provided guidance, and identified priority areas on work for the 2018–2019 biennium.
The Preparatory and Capacity Building Workshop for Major Groups and other Stakeholders met to provide an opportunity to brief Major Groups and other Stakeholders on the follow-up and review process of the identified Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2017–2019, as well as review the African regional report on progress on implementation. Delegates also took part in a roundtable session and six breakout groups in order to share experiences and lessons learned on SDGs 1 (Poverty Eradication), 2 (Zero Hunger), 3 (Good Health and Well-being), 5 (Gender Equality), 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), and 14 (Life Below Water). Specific issues highlighted included: decent work as a cross-cutting issue among the SDGs; creating data collection infrastructure; accountability; and, “domesticating” international laws and agreements.
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10th Session of the Economic Commission for Africa Committee
on Sustainable Development
L-R: Fatima Denton, Director, Special Initiatives Division, Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA); Moubarack Lo, Senegal; and Nassim
Oulmane, Chief of Green Economy and Natural Resources Section, UNECA
Fatima Denton, UNECA
Moubarack Lo, Senegal
Presentation on the introduction to the ECA sub-programme on innovations, technologies and managing Africa's natural resources by Fatima Denton, UNECA
Kasirim Nwuke, Chief of New Technologies and Innovation Section, UNECA
Nassim
Oulmane, UNECA
Naimaton Bio Djara, Benin
Esther Ikere Eluzai, South Sudan
Rania Abdel Magied, Egypt
Urias Sunday Goll, Liberia
Azhari Omer Abdelbagi, Sudan
Joseph Saturmin Dieme, Senegal
L-R: Sebueng Chipeta; Christo Janse van Noordwyk; and Thabo Mogale, South Africa
James Murombedzi, Acting Coordinator, African Climate Policy Centre
Mohamed Yahiya Lafdal, Mauritania
Preparatory and Capacity-Development Workshop for Major Groups
and other Stakeholders in the Africa region
L-R: Isabela Cunha, Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA); Aida Opoku-Mensah, Executive Secretary on the post-2015 development agenda, UNECA; Linus Mofor, Senior Expert, African Climate Policy
Centre, UNECA, Facilitator; and Charles Akol, Green Economy and Natural Resources Section, UNECA
Isabela Cunha, UNDESA
Aida Opoku-Mensah, Executive Secretary on the post-2015 development agenda, UNECA
Presentation on the global level follow-up to and review of the SDGs by Isabela Cunha, UNDESA
Presentation on the regional report on progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 by Bartholomew Armah, Macroeconomic Policy Division, UNECA
L-R: Ingrid Coetzee, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, South Africa; Dyborn Charlie Chibonga, World Farmers' Organization, Malawi; Priscilla Achakpa, Women Environmental Programme, Nigeria; Stephen Chacha, African Philanthropic Foundation, Tanzania; Daniel Nyanganyura, International Council for Science; Guendouz Siham, African Youth Network for Sustainable Development, Algeria
Alex Richard Nkosi, African Regional Organization of the Iternational Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa), Togo
Stephen Chacha, African Philanthropic Foundation, Tanzania
Lucy Mulenkei, Indigenous Information Network
Mamadou Abdoulaye Mbengue, ENDA Tiers Monde
Janice Cox, World Animal Net
Breakout group discussing SDG 2 (Zero Hunger)
Breakout group discussing SDG 5 (Gender Equality)
Damaris Uja, Women Environmental Programme, presenting the outcome of the breakout group on gender equality
Naonie Chakanya, LEDRIZ, presenting the outcome of the breakout group on industry, innovation and infrastructure
L-R: Isabela Cunha, UNDESA; Fatima Denton, UNECA; and Stephen Chacha, African Philanthropic Foundation, Tanzania
Summary report 17–19 May 2017
3rd Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development
Highlights and images for 11 May 2017
Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2017
The Bonn Climate Change Conference continued on Thursday. Informal consultations met throughout the day to discuss issues under the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA), the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). The APA contact group met during the afternoon to take stock of progress.
Several mandated events also met, including: an in-session workshop to develop possible elements of the gender action plan under the UNFCCC; two Technical Expert Meetings (TEMs) on mitigation, focusing on attracting private sector investors and business solutions for ambitious mitigation actions in land use and building partnerships to accelerate implementation; and the first meeting of the Paris Committee on Capacity-building.
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Technical Expert Meeting (TEM) on Mitigation: Private Sector Engagement
Panel speakers for the TEM on mitigation, focused on attracting private sector investors and business solutions for ambitious mitigation actions in land use
Katia Simeonova, UNFCCC Secretariat
Matthew Reddy, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Theo de Jager, World Farmers' Organization
Conor Lennon, WBCSD
Romano De Vivo, Syngenta
Participants during the session
First Meeting of the Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB)
Members of the PCCB
Rita Mishaan, Guatemala
Co-Chair Mohamed Nbou, Morocco
Co-Chair Matti Nummelin, Finland
Marzena Chodor, Poland
Crispin d'Auvergne, Saint Lucia
Mahawan Karuniasa, Indonesia
Richard Mfumu Lungu, Zambia
Renilde Ndayishimiye, Burundi
Participants during the session
Informal Consultations throughout the Day
APA informal consultations on adaptation communications
APA informal consultations on the global stocktake
APA informal consultations on modalities, procedures and guidelines for the transparency framework
APA informal consultation on further matters
In-Session Workshop: Gender Action Plan under the UNFCCC
On the second day of the in-session workshop focused on gender, participants broke out into small groups to discuss a variety of themes, including capacity building, gender-responsive implementation, gender balance and participation, and monitoring and reporting.
Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) Contact Group
Delegates gather for the APA contact group
APA Co-Chair Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia
APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand, and Co-Facilitator for agenda item 8 - other matters
Andrew Rakestraw, US, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 5 - transparency framework
Beth Lavender, Canada, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 4 - adaptation communications
Peter Horne, Australia, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 7 - committee to
facilitate implementation and promote compliance
Pieter Terpstra, the Netherlands, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 8 - further matters, Adaptation Fund
Jacob Werksman, EU
Ilze Prūse, Latvia, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 6 - global stocktake
Gertraud Wollansky, Austria, Co-Facilitator for APA agenda item 3 - mitigation
Walter Espinel, Ecuador, speaking on behalf of the G-77/China
Raed Albasseet, Saudi Arabia, speaking on behalf of the Arab Group
Majid Shafie-Pour, Iran, speaking on behalf of the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs)
Dina Spörri, Switzerland, speaking on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG)
APA family photo
Civil Society Demonstration
Members of civil society line the stairs calling for nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to go up, reminding delegates they must not 'back out' of their commitments
Around the Venue
Ian Fry, Tuvalu
Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Marcela Main Sancha, UNFCCC Secretariat
Members of civil society meet in the corridors
Teresa Jane Hannaway, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the youngest delegate attending the meeting
Jukka Uosukainen, Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), speaks with SBSTA Chair Carlos Fuller, Belize
Delegates between sessions
Delegates meet informally
Highlights and images for 9 May 2017
Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2017
The Bonn Climate Change Conference continued Tuesday. In the morning, the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) contact group and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) plenary convened. Contact groups and informal consultations convened throughout the day.
Several mandated events convened throughout the day. Two Technical Expert Meeting (TEMs) on mitigation, focusing on city-level collaboration to achieve emission reductions and sustainable development, and on innovative policy and technology solutions for sustainable urban development. Other mandated events included the meeting of the Technical Expert Group on the impact of the implementation of response measures.
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Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) Contact Group
View of the dais during the APA contact group
APA Co-Chair Jo Tyndall, New Zealand
APA Co-Chair Sarah Baashan, Saudi Arabia
Raed Albasseet, Saudi Arabia
Felipe Ferreira, Brazil
Collin Beck, Solomon Islands
Ravi Prasad, India
Chen Zhihua, China
Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) Plenary
View of the dais during the SBI plenary
Chan-Woo Kim, Republic of Korea, speaking on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG)
SBI Chair Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland
Simone Borg, EU
Gebru Jember, Ethiopia, speaking on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Amjad Abdulla, Maldives, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Isabel Di Carlo Quero, Venezuela, speaking on behalf of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)
Ndivile Colia Mokoena, Women and Gender
Ceris Jones, Farmers
Alberto Saldamando, Indigenous Peoples
Sara Kupka, Local Governments and Municipal Authorities (LGMA)
Roundtable Discussions among Parties in Relation to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
Panel speakers (L-R): Amy Steen, UNFCCC Secretariat; Co-Facilitator Hugh Sealy, Maldives; Co-Facilitator Kelley Kizzier, EU; and Phillip Eyre, UNFCCC Secretariat
Delegates participate in roundtable discussions
Contact Groups throughout the Day
SBI/Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) contact group on the implementation of response measures
SBSTA contact group on the modalities for the accounting of financial resources (Paris Agreement Article 9.7)
Arrangements for Intergovernmental Meetings (AIM) Workshop
View of the panel during the in-session workshop on opportunities to further enhance the effective engagement of non-party stakeholders with a view to strengthening the implementation of the provisions of decision 1/CP.21.
Inia Seruiratu, Minister of Agriculture, Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management, and High-Level Climate Champion, Fiji
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa
Kalyani Raj, All India Women’s Conference, Women and Gender
Walter Schuldt-Espinel, Ecuador, on behalf of the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs)
Ulrik Lenaerts, EU
Norine Kennedy, US Council for International Business, Business and Industry NGOs (BINGO)
Yunus Arikan, Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), LGMA
Marcos Montoiro, UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Technical Expert Meeting (TEM) on Mitigation
Delegates gather for the TEM on mitigation, innovative policy and technology solutions for sustainable urban development
Stella Gama, Technology Executive Committee
Winfried Damm, GIZ Proklima
Xiaomei Duan, Far East BRT Planning Company, China
Johnny Stuen, Municipality's Waste-to-Energy Agency, City of Oslo, Norway
Around the Venue
A delegate reviews the schedule at the start of the day
Delegates from Tajikistan
Issa Aliyev, Azerbaijan, and Talieh Wögerbauer, Austria
Yunus Arikan, ICLEI, and Kimo Goree, Vice-President, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa speaks with Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation
Maesela Kekana and Alf Wills, South Africa
Delegates read the IISD Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) website and daily report to keep track of negotiations
Delegates between sessions
Amjad Abdulla, Maldives
Summary report 1–5 May 2017
12th Session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF12)