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Contribution of the United Nations Environment Assembly to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: Responses to the questions raised by the President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
- The present note offers the contribution of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UN Environment Assembly) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) to the 2017 session of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (the Forum), which takes place in New York from 10 to 19 July 2017 with the theme on “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world”.
- This note responds to the request made by H.E. Mr. Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava, President of the Economic and Social Council, to H.E. Mr. Edgar Gutiérrez Espeleta, President of the UN Environment Assembly, to provide substantive inputs to the Forum, showcasing UN Environment’s “contribution towards the 2030 Agenda in general, and particularly for the Sustainable Development Goals and respective targets that are most relevant to [the UN Environment] mandate”.
- In this context, the contribution derives from UN Environment’s Medium-term Strategy for 2018-2021 and the resolutions adopted at the second session of the UN Environment Assembly that took place on 23-27 May 2016. The contribution focuses on the environmental dimension of sustainable development, while recognizing that economic and social pillars are equally important in eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity across the world.
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