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The theme for the 2022 United Nations high-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) and ECOSOC is “ Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ”.

With 2022, we have entered the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, that has inflicted unprecedented human suffering. With its combined social, economic and health impact, the pandemic has outpaced any other major crisis in recent history. The 2022 HLPF will take stock of the impact of COVID-19 and the other ongoing crises on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The forum will provide political leadership, guidance and recommendations on how to advance the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda during the Decade of Action and Delivery, as part of ensuring sustainable, inclusive and resilient recovery from the pandemic, leaving no one behind.

The HLPF in 2022 will also conduct an in-depth review of Sustainable Development Goals 4 on quality education, 5 on gender equality, 14 on life below water, 15 on life on land, and 17 on partnerships for the Goals. The forum will take into account the different and particular impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across all SDGs and the integrated, indivisible and interlinked nature of the Goals. It will also launch preparations for the mid-term review of the SDGs and the 2023 SDG Summit

Provisional agenda and documentation (E/HLPF/2022/1)

Chair:

  • H.E. Mr. Collen Vixen Kelapile, President of the Economic and Social Council

Opening remarks:

  • H.E. Mr. Collen Vixen Kelapile, President of the Economic and Social Council

Keynote and remarks:

  • Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (Main messages from the Voluntary National Reviews)
  • Mr. Nicholas Stern, Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics , United Kingdom
  • H.E. Mr. Suriya Chindawongse, Vice President of Economic and Social Council (Messages from ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies)
  • Mr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
  • Ms. Mari Pangestu, Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank Group
  • Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, SDG Advocate, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, India
  • Ms. Valentina Munoz Rabanal, SDG Advocate, youth feminist activist and digital rights advocates, Chile

Messages and performance:

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