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Seventeenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 17)
4 - 15 May 2009
UN Headquarters, New York, US
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Highlights from Tuesday, 12 May
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On Tuesday, CSD 17 delegates continued negotiating draft negotiating text in two Working Groups throughout the day and into the night. Delegates also convened in standing-room-only ministerial dialogues with Major Groups during the morning, and the policy research community during the afternoon. Photo: Ashok Khosla, Development Alternatives, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development, during the dialogue with the policy research community. |
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Dialogue of Ministers with Major Groups and UN Specialized Agencies, Funds and Programmes on Implementing Sustainable Development |
Lucy Mulenkey, Indigenous Network, Tebtebba, representing Indigenous People, Michaela Hogenboom, Dutch Youth Council, representing Children and Youth, and Sabina Mensah, WOCAN, representing Women. |
Rachel Mayanja, Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, with CSD Chair Verburg. |
Members of the Children and Youth and Women's Major Groups (left) and Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director greets Guatemalan Minister of Environment amd Natural Resources Luis Alberto Ferraté.
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Sarala Gopolan, IFAP, representing Farmers, Barry Grear, WFEO, representing the Scientific and Technological Community, and Louise Kantrow, ICC, representing Business and Industry. |
A view of the room during the dialogue (left) and Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Minister of Environment and Tourism, Namibia (right). |
Khaled Irani, Jordanian Minister of Environment, and Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director, with Ibrahim Thiaw, UNEP. |
Ibrahim Thiaw, UNEP, Batsuuri Nantsag, Mongolia, Zamba Batjargal, WMO, and Sergio Miranda de Cruz, UNIDO. |
Dialogue of Ministers with the Policy Research Community and UN Specialized Agencies, Funds and Programmes on Implementing Sustainable Development
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Ashok Khosla, Development Alternatives,
Jomo Kwame Sundaram,
Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development, CSD Chair Gerda Verburg, Vivien Pliner, Secretariat, and Steve Bass, International Institute for Environment and Development. |
Participants during the dialogue (left photo) and Ashok Khosla, Development Alternatives, and Tariq Banuri, Director, DSD (right photo). |
A view of the room (left) and Youth and Women delegates (right). |
Calestous Juma, Harvard University, addresses the dialogue. |
Gus Speth, Vermont Law School (left photo) and Youba Sokona, Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) (right photo). |
Representatives of NGOs and Farmers during the dialogue. |
Working Groups continued with their negotiations |
Co-Chair Javad Amin-Mansour, Iran, and the US delegation during negotiations on text related to rural development. |
Delegates continued negotiating text all day and into the evening. |
Learning Center: From Project to Self-Sustaining Business, organized by the SEED Initiative |
Heather Creech, IISD, and Helen Marquard, SEED Initiative. |
Side Event: Erosion and Soil Organic Matter decline as Elements of Soil Degradation, organized by the Czech Presidency and the Kingdom of Spain |
Luc
Gnacadja, UNCCD Executive Secretary (far left), addresses the side event participants. |
Alexander Julius Müller, FAO, and Kimo Goree, IISD (left photo), and Tonya Vaturi, DSD (right). |
Links to CSD 17 information
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