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Conferences and Meetings
Dialogue on Conservation and Indigenous People
Title: Roundtable discussion on "Achieving the
MDGs for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Africa "
Date: Friday, 16 September 11:00 a.m.
Venue: UNPFII Premises
Organizing Bodies: IUCN, CI, WWF, TNC, UNPFII
Event Description: A dialogue on conservation and indigenous
people issues.
Participants: - Elissavet Stamatopoulou, Chief of the
Secretariat, UNPFII - Sushil Raj, Associate Expert, UNPFII - Hui Lu,
Social Affairs Officer, UNPFII - Kristen Walker and Laura Ledwith from
Conservation International - Joy Grant from The Nature Conservancy -
Jenny Springer from WWF - World Wildlife Fund - Andrea Mauro and Maria
Espinosa from IUCN
Community Commons II
Date: 14 September 10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
Venue: UNHQ
Event Description: Representatives of local communities
worldwide will travel to NY for an intense period of exchange on the
topics most critical to reducing global poverty and achieving sustainability.
The event will provide policy-relevant inputs around the Summit and
will add local voices and perspectives to this event.
UNICEF and WSSCC Roundtable on MDGs & Africa
Title: Roundtable discussion on "Achieving the
MDGs for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Africa "
Date: 14 September 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Venue: UNICEF House
Organizing Bodies: UNICEF and the Water
Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council(WSSCC).
Event Description: The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
for All campaign ('WASH') is a concerted advocacy and communications
campaign to mobilize political awareness, support and action to end
the suffering of the 1.1 billion people without access to safe water,
and the 2.4 billion without adequate sanitation.
PEP Initiative ‘Environment for the MDGs’
- Policy Dialogue
Title: Environment
for the MDGs: Investment Priorities to Achieve Poverty Reduction
Date: 14 September from 2:30-5:30 p.m.
Venue: Institute of International Education,
809 First Avenue
Organizing Bodies: UNDP / UNEP
Event Description: The two consecutive ministerial-level
panel discussions will bring together leaders from governments, NGOs,
local communities, academics and business to explore and debate key
findings on the economic case for the importance of environment to poverty
reduction, and to identify priority areas for investment to advance
the MDG agenda.The policy dialogue is sponsored by the Poverty-Environment
Partnership - a network of more than 30 international development and
environment agencies convened to address poverty-environment linkages
within the MDG framework.
2:30 - 3:45 p.m. The Case for Investing in the Environment to Reduce
Poverty - Opening Presentation: Kemal Dervis, Administrator,
UNDP
4:00 - 5:30 Future Priorities: Building on What Works - Moderated
panel discussion - Opening Presentation: Klaus Toepfer executive Director,
UNEP
Invitation
- The event can also be viewed on the Internet via live webcast (more
details will be provided at www.undp.org/pei
) .
Policy
Dialogue Programme.
Contact: UNDP (C. McNeill) and UNEP/DPDL (D. Smith)
COM+ Panel III: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Conclusions
and Implications
Date: Wednesday 14 September 2 - 4 p.m.
Venue: UNDP, 1 UN Plaza, 9th Floor
Organizing Bodies: Alliance
of Communicators for Sustainable Development (COM+); World Bank
Panel Participants: Len Good (the GEF); Steve McCormick
(TNC); Warren Evans (WB)
COM+ Panel II including World Bank Report Launch.
Date: Wednesday 14 September 2 - 4 p.m.
Venue: UNDP, 1 UN Plaza, 9th Floor
Organizing Bodies: Alliance
of Communicators for Sustainable Development (COM+); World Bank
Panel Participants:: Major heads of conservation organizations
- Ian Johnson, Jeff Sachs, Peter Seligman, Steve McCormick, Achim Steiner,
and Kirk Hamilton (principal author) to emphasize the critical importance
of MDG7 in relation to the MDGs. Also includes specific suggestions
on MDG7 indicators. Anticipated attendance is 50-70 persons.
COM+ Event: Achieving the MDGs: Accountability and the Role
of the Media in Developing Countries
Date: Monday 12 September & Tuesday 13 September
Venue: UNDP at One UN Plaza
Organizing Bodies: Alliance
of Communicators for Sustainable Development (COM+); World Bank
Contact: Barbara Medina - Barbara.Medina@complusalliance.org
The Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development (COM+) will
bring 19 journalists from Africa and five from Central America to the
World Summit during 11-15 September to participate in a series of high
level panels that will debate World Summit issues before the actual
Summit. COM+ will provide professional media training on development
issues as well as on the job training during the event to journalists
in an effort to strengthen local reporting capacity and public awareness
on the MDGs in developing countries. Background.
COM+ Panel I "Who is Accountable for Achieving the Millennium
Development Goals: The Role of Governments, Civil Society, Private Sector
and Media"
Date: Wednesday 12 September 2 - 4 p.m.
Venue: UNDP, 1 UN Plaza, 19th Floor
Organizing Bodies: Alliance
of Communicators for Sustainable Development (COM+); World Bank
Panel Participants:
Moderator: Sergio Jellinek, Communications Advisor, World Bank
Salil Shetty, Millennium Campaign Director
Thalif Deen, Director for North America , IPS
Lorena Aguilar, Senior Gender Advisor, IUCN
Jacqueline Coté, Senior Advisor Advocacy, Partnerships and Media,
World Business Council on Sustainable Development Center for Global
Development, TBC
CSD Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
Date and Time: Sunday 11 - Monday 12 September 2005
Event Description: Stakeholder Forum's workshop on
"Commission for Sustainable Development - Preparing for the Future,".
"CSD - Preparing for the Future" will discuss the new CSD process (developed
at CSD 11) and make recommendations to improve the effectiveness and
success of this organization as it enters its second implementation
cycle.
Venue: Church Centre, Second Floor, 777 UN Plaza 44th Street
(between 1st and 2nd Avenue )
Organizing Bodies: Stakeholder
Forum for a Sustainable Future
Contact: Felix Dodds & Mehjabeen Price
Participants: 40-60 participants, including: Governments,
Intergovernmental Bodies, UN Agencies and Programmes and Major Stakeholder
Groups
58th Annual DPI//NGO Conference "Our Challenge: Voices
for Peace, Partnerships, and Renewal
Date and Time: Wednesday 7 - 9 September
Event Description: An interactive, forum for 2,500+
NGOs associated with the UN to underscore support for the MDGs.
A series of conference Plenary Sessions and 30 Midday NGO Interactive
Workshops (civil society, UN, and government agencies) will occur over
the course of three days; Amb. Ping will oversee an interactive dialogue
between governments and civil society on the 9th.
Location: UNHQ
Organizing Bodies: UNDPI & NGOs
URL of DPI/NGO Section: www.un.org/dpi/ngosection
Contact: Sasa Gorisek, Information Officer, NGO Section,
Phone: (212) 963-1859, or email: gorisek@un.org
Attendees: See separate worksheet
Publication Launches
Energy for Development: The Potential Role of Renewable Energy
in Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
Date: Thursday, September 15, 10:00 a.m. EST
Venue: UN Environment Program's Green Room
UNEP New York Office
Two United Nations Plaza
Room DC2-803
New York, NY 10017
Organizing Body: The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN 21)
Participants:
Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director, U.N. Environment Programme;
Olav Kjorven, Director, Energy and Environment Group, UN Development
Programme (Invited);
Christopher Flavin, President, Worldwatch Institute, Lead Author;
Molly Aeck, Renewable Energy Program Manager, Worldwatch Institute, Lead
Author;
Moderated by David Hales, Counsel for Sustainability Policy, Worldwatch
Institute
Contact: Darcey Rakestraw, 202.452.1992 x517 or 202.210.0152
"Where is the Wealth of Nations" WB Panel and Book
Launch
Date: Wednesday
14 September 2 - 4 p.m.
Venue: UNDP, 1 UN Plaza, 9th Floor
Contact: Clare Fleming
Event Description: Book launch and panel;
including heads of major conservation organizations (Jeff Sachs and
Achim Steiner) and Kirk Hamilton (principal author) to emphasize the
critical importance of MDG7 in relation to the MDGs. Also includes
specific suggestions on MDG7 indicators.
Poverty and Environment Newsletter Launch
Date: Friday 9 September
Location: TBA
Organizing Body: UNEP
UNEP
Poverty and Environment Unit
UNDP Human Development Report Launch
Date: 7 September
Event Description: The focus of HDR 2005 is on what governments
in rich countries can do to keep their side of the "grand bargain"
agreed upon in the Millennium Declaration in 2000 and elaborated further
in Monterrey in 2002, under which sustained political and economic reform
by developing countries is matched by direct support from the rich world
in trade, aid and investment.
World Resources Report Launch
Title: World
Resources 2005: The Wealth of the Poor: Managing ecosystems to fight
poverty
Date: Wednesday, 31 August
Location: TBA
Organizing Body: World
Resources Institute
UNDP Sustainable Difference Publication Launch
Date and Time: Wednesday 24 August, 6-8 pm
Event Description: UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis launch
of Sustainable Difference publication and promotion of 5 Energy and
Environment Initiatives
Location: German Mission to the UN
Press Events
& Conferences
"Energy for Development: The Potential Role of Renewable
Energy in Meeting the Millennium Development Goals".
Date: Thursday, September 15, 10:00 a.m. EST
Venue: UN Environment Program's Green Room
UNEP New York Office
Two United Nations Plaza
Room DC2-803
New York, NY 10017
Organizing Body: The Renewable Energy Policy Network
for the 21st Century (REN 21)
Contact: Darcey Rakestraw, 202.452.1992 x517 or 202-210-0152
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment >>more
Date: Tuesday, September 13th, 2005, 3:30 – 5:30
pm
Venue: UNDP Plaza, 19th Floor (across the UN Secretariat
Bldg.)
Organizing Body:Com+
Contact:Carolin Wanhbaeck, IUCN, 202.251.0806, Carolin.Wahnbaeck@iucn.org
Tom Cohen, Conservation International, 202.257.9954, t.cohen@conservation.org
Tracey Osborne, World Bank, 703.220.9939, tosborne@worldbank.org
Briefing of African & Central American journalists.
Date
: Monday, 12 September - 4:00 -5:00 pm
Venue:
Green Room
Organizing
Bodies: COM+
Event
Description: Briefing of African & Central American journalists
of the COM+ sponsored event "Achieving the Millennium
Development Goals: Accountability and the Role of the Media in
Developing Countries".
Contact:
barbara.medina@complusalliance.org
Various
Projection of giant “white band” on front of UN General
Assembly Building
Date: September 15th, 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Venue: Front of UN General Assembly Building, at intersection
of 45th Street and 1st Avenue
Description: Projection of giant “white band” on
front of UN General Assembly Building, the international symbol of over
150 million anti-poverty campaigners worldwide
organizing Bodies:The UN Millennium Campaign, ONE:
The Campaign to Make Poverty History and Global Call to Action Against
Poverty (GCAP)
Clean Energy and Climate Change Reception
Date: 14 September from 6:30-8.30 PM
Venue: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave , NY
Description: Held in parallel with the UN Millennium Review Summit
2005, this reception will highlight the importance of addressing the
climate change issue and the critical role of renewable energy and energy
efficiency. It will bring together policy makers, business, diplomats
and other stakeholders to build upon the outcomes of the G8 summit and
the positive momentum that is developing in the US at State and corporate
level. RSVP: nforster@theclimategroup.org
Organizing Bodies: The Climate Group
Participants: Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP, The Secretary
of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Brendan McDonagh,
Chief Operating Officer, HSBC Bank USA - Dr Steve Howard, CEO, The Climate
Group - Dr Marianne Osterkorn, International Director, REEEP
PEP Initiative ‘Environment for the MDGs’ - Heads
of State Dinner
Title: Environment and the MDGs: Celebrating Leadership, Action
and Innovation
Date: 14 September from 6:30-10:00 PM
Venue: The Boathouse in Central Park
Description: Head
of state dinner
The evening head of state dinner will showcase local to global efforts
to scale-up environmental investments for poverty reduction, and will
provide a forum for the announcement of major new commitments and programmatic
initiatives related to environment and the MDGs.
Live Webcast on Environment for the MDGs
Title: Policy dialogue on Investing in the Environment
to Fight Poverty: The Economic Case and Priorities for Action
Date: 14 September 2005
Time: 2:30 - 6:00 pm (NY Time) via live webstreaming
Description: The policy dialogue will bring together
leaders from governments, NGOs, local communities, academics and business
to explore and debate key findings on the economic case for the importance
of environment to poverty reduction, and to identify priority areas
for investment to advance the MDG agenda. It is sponsored by the
Poverty-Environment Partnership - a network of more than 30 international
development and environment agencies convened to address poverty-environment
linkages within the MDG framework.
Log on to www.undp.org/pei
and follow the links. Live webstreaming will be available at high and
low bandwidths. >>more
Civil Society Forum
Title: Dialogue with Officials from the UN Summit
Date: 13 September 4:15 – 7:15 p.m
Venue: Riverside Church
Description:Focus on key messages that the Civil-society Forum
may wish to see taken forward by the civil-society representatives who
will debate with UN officials and Heads of State. Whether from a civil-society
or an official perspective, the focus of the dialogs will be on transforming
the multilateral system in order to prevent wars and to win the fight
against poverty. Issues covered will include the MDGs, Human Rights,
UN Reform, within the context of global governance.
Prayer service on the eve of the opening of
the sixtieth session of the General Assembly
Date: Monday 12 September -
5 P.M.
Venue: Church of the Holy Family ( 315 East 47 th
Street )
Organizing Bodies: The Permanent Observer
Mission of the Holy See and the Archdiocese of New York
Contact: All are invited to attend. For further information,
please contact the Permanent
Observer Mission of the Holy See (tel. 1 (212) 370-7885)
NY Premiere of The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Jeff
Sachs in Africa
Title: ”The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs
in Africa” (Diary)
Date: 12 September
Venue:
Description:”The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey
Sachs in Africa” (Diary) will be a 30-minute MTV documentary on
the fight against extreme poverty in Africa and the feasibility of achieving
the MDGs. The documentary features first-person storytelling from Ms.
Jolie and Dr. Sachs as they experience the effects of both the devastation
and hopeful progress in a remote group of villages called Sauri in Western
Kenya. The documentary conveys that, through practical, cost-effective
interventions such as anti-malaria bednets, water pumps, soil nutrients
and fertilizer, the Millennium Development Goals can be met, even in
the poorest of places. The global airdate for this documentary will
be 16 September.
Exhibitions
UNEP International Photographic Competition on the Environment
Title: "Focus on Your World" Photo Competition
Date: Wednesday, 7 September - Saturday,17 September.
Venue: UN Headquarters
Description:During the UN's 2005 World Summit, award-winning
images from the 2005 UNEP International Photographic Competition on
the Environment will be on display on the ground floor of the UN Conference
Building. View
selection of winning photos - Winners
of UNEP International Photo Competition Announced (UNEP Press release,
18 March 2005)
Organizing Bodies: UNEP
Contact: Jim Sniffen ( e-mail: sniffenj@un.org)
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