Summary
On Wednesday, the 2016 meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) started with panel discussions on “Creating ownership at the national level” and “Mainstreaming SDGs into national policies, plans and strategies and integrating the three dimensions of sustainable development” in the morning. In the afternoon, discussions took place on “Vertical cooperation – local authorities and national governments working together for implementation of the 2030 Agenda” and “Challenges in mobilizing means of implementation at the national level (Financing, Technology, Capacity building).”
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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Creating ownership at the national level
Panel speakers for the session on creating ownership at the national level
Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava, Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the UN and Vice President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Jessica Espey, Sustainable Development
Solutions Network (SDSN)
Louis Meuleman,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Ivane Shamugia, Administration of
the Government of Georgia
Adolfo Ayuso,
Office of the President, Mexico
Annika Lindblom, Counsellor to the Ministry
of the Environment, Finland
Gomer Padong, Philippine Social Enterprise Network (PhilSEN)
Yonglong Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sunita Kotnala, Women's Major Group
Jiten Yumnam,
Indigenous Peoples Major Group
Mainstreaming SDGs into national policies, plans and strategies and
integrating the three dimensions of sustainable development
View of the panel during the session
Chair Sven Jürgenson, Permanent Representative of Estonia to the UN and Vice President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Nick Ishmael Perkins, SciDev.net
Joseph Enyimu, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic
Development, Uganda
Koichi Aiboshi, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Japan
Wardarina, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development and Co-Chair of Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism
Eili Lepik, Government Office, Estonia
Izzet Ari, Environment and Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Development, Turkey
Stine Lise Hattestad Bratsberg, PURE Consulting
Olivier Brochenin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
International Development, France
Mohammed Aliyu, Nigeria
Vertical cooperation – local authorities and national governments working
together for implementation of the 2030 Agenda
Panel speakers for the session on vertical cooperation – local authorities and national
governments working together for implementation of the 2030 Agenda
Kadir Topbaş, Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey
Peter Wollaert, UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
Patrícia Iglecias, State Secretary for Environment, São Paulo, Brazil
Stephan Contius, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Hyuk-Sang Sohn, Kyung Hee University
Paddy Torsney, Office of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to the UN
Rosemarie Edillon, National Economic and Development
Authority (NEDA), Philippines
Allan Bird, Papua New Guinea
Dalia Marques, Major Group for Children and Youth
Leida Rijnhout, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Major Group
Challenges in mobilizing means of implementation at the national level
Delegates attend the session on challenges in mobilizing means of implementation
at the national level - financing, technology and capacity building
Macharia Kamau, Co-Chair, Science,
Technology and Innovation (STI) Forum
Chair Héctor Alejandro Palma Cerna, Deputy Permanent Representative of Honduras to the UN
and Vice President of ECOSOC
Felipe Castro, Inter-Institutional Commission for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda, Colombia
Manuel Montes, South Centre
Paulo Gadelha, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Paul Gulleik Larsen, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Norway
Mawussi Djossou Semondji, Expert Minister to the Presidency of Togo
Chengyong Sun, Ministry of Science
and Technology, China
David O’Connor, International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Christo Janse van Noordwyk, South Africa
Around the Venue
Delegates gather for the third day of the 2016 HLPF
Delegates from Palau and Pakistan
Delegates from China confer with the Secretariat
Delegates meet informally throughout the day
Ouinibani Konate, Burkina Faso
Kadir Topbaş, Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey
Delegates pose with their favourite SDGs
Delegates read the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Earth Negotiations
Bulletin (ENB) to review yesterday's proceedings
Around the UN Headquarters