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SDGs in focus: SDG 15 and interlinkages with other SDGs – Life on land

Nature and nature’s contributions to people are essential for human existence and good quality of life, and none of the global goals for the protection of life on Earth and for halting the degradation of land and oceans have been fully met. Many are trending in the wrong direction. To build back better following the global COVID-19 pandemic, progress under SDG 15 needs to shift from incremental to transformative change, with multi-sector, multi-stakeholder collaboration.

Proposed guiding questions:

· What concrete measures can help reshape the human-nature relationship and accelerate the shift of development to a more sustainable path?

· What are the main governance, regulatory and market failures that need to be overcome in this decade, and which policy area and actions are necessary to activate a system-wide shift to better value for nature and to integrate nature protection in decision making?

· What opportunities do the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, the land degradation neutrality target, the Global Forest Goals of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests, and the Paris Agreement implementation processes offer to promote more impactful, large-scale change for the protection and sustainable management of terrestrial ecosystems, biodiversity and land resources?

· Where are opportunities to ensure fair, effective, inclusive, and transparent participation of rights holders, especially women and Indigenous peoples, civil society, and other stakeholders in the SDG 15 process?

Chair:

  • Vice President of ECOSOC (Bolivia)

Highlights:

  • Highlights of the report of the Secretary-General on progress towards the SDGs – SDG 15 on Life on land
    Mr. Yuxi Zhang, Statistics Division of UNDESA

Interactive panel discussion

Moderator:

  • Mr. Nigel Sizer, Executive Director of the Preventing Pandemics at the Source initiative with Dalberg Catalyst

Resource Persons:

  • Mr. Bruno Oberle, Director General of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
  • Ms. Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission of Europe and Coordinator of the Regional Commissions
  • Ms. Julie Nash, Senior Program Director, Food and Forests, Ceres
  • Mr. Uyunkar Domingo Peas, Ecuador’s Achuar people, and representative of the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of the Ecuadorian Amazon for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative
  • Ms. Ajanta Dey, Joint Secretary and Programme Director, Nature Environment and Wildlife Society

Lead Discussants:

  • Mr. Ralph Chami, Assistant Director, IMF. Financial Economist, Co-Founder, Blue Green World & Rebalance Earth
  • Mr. Daniel Samuelsson, Youth representative of Sweden to the HLPF 2022
  • Mr. Paul Divakar Namala, Convenor, Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (MGoS)

Respondents:

  • H.E. Mr. Philda Nani Kereng, Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism of Botswana
  • H.E. Mr. Zéphyrin Maniratanga, Permanent Representative of Burundi to the United Nations, Chair of the eighteenth session of the UNFF (UNFF18)

Interventions of other Ministers and participants (3 minutes each)