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UNEP Event
Expert Group Meeting on Promoting Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development
19 - 20 July 2018
New York, United States of America
- Overview
- Documents
Organized jointly by the UN Office for Sustainable Development and the UN Environment Programme (UN Environment), the Experts Group Meeting on Promoting Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development took place on 19 and 20 July 2018 in New York, right after the 2018 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
Consisting of five interactive sessions with the participation of some 60 government officials and representatives of non-governmental organizations, academia and the UN system, the meeting focused on different aspects of “integrated approaches” to sustainable development, ranging from what constitutes integrated approaches to how they can be effectively deployed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Policy coherence and multilateral environmental agreements were examined in-depth as important pathways to promoting integrated approaches to the SDGs, which are indivisible and closely interlinked.
More information about the meeting can be found below:
- Meeting concept note and programme
- Meeting summary
- List of participants and speakers' biographies
- Compilation of survey responses
- Photo gallery
Please contact Ms. Hyun Sung (hyun.sung[at]un.org) for any questions related to the meeting.
Presentations (in the order presented)
- UN Development Programme-UN Environment Poverty-Environment Initiative – The experience of PEI as precursor of an integrated approach to environmental mainstreaming for sustainable development
- Romania – The environment: An enabler to deliver on the SDGs, from institutional framework to policy implementation
- Tanzania – Mainstreaming poverty, environment, gender and climate change into development processes
- UN Environment Management Group
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – The framework for policy coherence for sustainable development
- World Resources Institute – Ensuring policy coherence between SDGs and nationally determined contributions
- Finland – National 2030 Agenda architecture
- Colombia – Challenges and progress towards policy coherence at the junction of the 2030 Agenda and the post-conflict process
- UN Environment – Towards coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of the SDGs
- South Africa – Addressing gaps in environment related SDGs including through MEAs
- Republic of Korea – SDGs and climate change
- The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions and their contribution to the sound management of chemicals and wastes
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