Global Stakeholder Meeting of the 10YFP

The 1st Global Stakeholder Meeting of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP), will take place at UN Headquarters in New York, US, on 14 May 2015. The meeting, convening three years after the adoption of the 10YFP at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20), which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 13-22 June 2012, will bring stakeholders together to engage on the role of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) policies and initiatives in efforts to attain sustainable development.

The Global Stakeholder Meeting of the 10YFP is expected to: illustrate and explore the universal nature and add value of shifting towards SCP for achievement of sustainable development; promote the 10YFP as an implementation mechanism of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and post-2015 development agenda, with a focus on programmes, their delivery at regional and national levels, and measurement of capacity built through them; and explore the capacity of the 10YFP and its programmes to support the SDGs and the shift to SCP patterns.

The Stakeholder Meeting, under the aegis of the 1st Global Meeting of the 10YFP, will be followed by sessions on Implementing and Inter-linking 10YFP Programmes on 15 May 2015.