Summary
The 2016 meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) opened on Monday, 11 July 2016, at UN Headquarters in New York.
Following an opening plenary, the first day started with a session on “Where do we stand at year one” of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This was followed by three sessions related to the 2016 HLPF theme of “Ensuring that no one is left behind,” on: “Envisioning an inclusive world in 2030”; “Lifting people out of poverty and addressing basic needs”; and “Fostering economic growth, prosperity, and sustainability.”
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily reports, daily web coverage and a summary and analysis from HLPF 2016, which is available in HTML and PDF format.
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Opening Plenary
Delegates during the opening session
Oh Joon, Permanent Representative of the
Republic of Korea to the UN and President of the UN
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General
for Economic and Social Affairs
Session 1: Where do we stand at year one?
Panelists for Session 1: Where do we stand at year one?
Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Moderator Paula Caballero Gomez,
World Bank
Debapriya Bhattacharya,
Centre for Policy Dialogue
Martin Tsounkeu, Africa Development
Interchange Network (ADIN)
José María Viera,
World Blind Union (WBU)
Oriana López Uribe,
Women's Major Group
Macharia Kamau, Kenya
Joy Aguilar, Major Group
for Children and Youth
Session 2: Envisioning an inclusive world in 2030
Panelists for Session 2: Envisioning an inclusive world in 2030
Ion Jinga, Permanent Representative of Romania to the UN
and Chair of the 54th session of the Commission for Social Development
Moderator Lisa Foster,
US Department of Justice
Alvaro Esteban Pop Ac, Chair of the 15th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
Onalenna Selolwane, Mosadi Khumo Socio-Economic Empowerment
Forum for Women
Ibrahim Ismail Abdallah,
Arab Organization of Persons
with Disability (AOPD)
Uchita de Zoysa, Sri Lanka
Anna Ballance, EU
Chair Héctor Alejandro Palma Cerna, Deputy Permanent Representative of Honduras to the UN and Vice President of ECOSOC
Session 3: Lifting people out of poverty and addressing basic needs
Panelists for Session 3: Lifting people out of poverty and addressing basic needs
Alice Albright, Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
Moderator Sarina Prabasi, WaterAid America
Michael Park, Aspen Institute
Chair Sven Jürgenson, Permanent Representative of Estonia to the UN and Vice President of ECOSOC
Cristina Diez, International Movement
ATD Fourth World
Xie Zhangwei, China
José De Souza, Benin
Rajul Pandya-Lorch, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Grace Balawag, Indigenous Peoples Major Group
Carla Mucavi, Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO)
Session 4: Fostering economic growth, prosperity, and sustainability
Panelists for Session 4: Fostering economic growth, prosperity, and sustainability
Tim Jackson, Centre for the Understanding
of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)
Moderator Vinicius Pinheiro,
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Bart Verspagen, UN University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT)
Wellington Chibebe, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Dyborn Chibonga, National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM)
Around the Venue
Delegates watch discussions from the balcony
A string quartet welcomes delegates to the meeting
Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
Delegates meet before the start of the session
Delegates meet informally throughout the day
Around the UN Headquarters
