Summary
On Friday, the 2017 meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) started with a session on leveraging interlinkages for effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the afternoon, a session on science-policy interface and emerging issues was followed by a wrap-up of the week’s events by the President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Under-Secretary-General (USG) of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
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Session 15 - Leveraging interlinkages for effective implementation of SDGs
View of the dais during the session
Debapriya Bhattacharya, Chair, Southern Voices, and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, the Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)
Marie Chatardová, Vice President, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Charles Arden-Clarke, Head of Secretariat, 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP)
Minh-Thu Pham, Executive Director for Global Policy, UN Foundation
Michael Gerber, Special Envoy for Global Sustainable Development, Switzerland
Irene Khan, Director General, International Development Law Organization (IDLO)
Roberto Olinto, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
Judith Randel, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Development Initiatives (DI)
Anil Arora, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada
Jean Christian Razafiarison, Madagascar
Sergey Egorenko, Russian Federation
Mohammad Ali Zarie Zare, Iran
Coulibaly Maïmouna Dramé, Mali
Teodor Dulceaţă, Romania
Marcos Bonturi, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Anna Ballance, EU
Youth delegate Herlinde Baeyens, Belgium
Maximilian Mueller, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Session 16 - Science-policy interface and emerging issues
Lead discussants speak from the podium during the session
Endah Murniningtyas, National Development Planning Agency, Indonesia
Peter Messerli, University of Bern, Switzerland
Wang Ruijun, Ministry of Science and Technology, China, and Chair, UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD)
Cristián Barros Melet, Vice President of ECOSOC
Moderator William Colglazier, American Academy for the Advancement of Science
Stuart Taberner, Director, International and Interdisciplinary Research, Research Councils United Kingdom (RCUK)
Tolu Oni, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Tom Okurut, Uganda
Tateo Arimoto, Japan
Pam Rajput, Women's Major Group
Lucilla Spini, Scientific and Technological Community
Taikan Oki, UN University
Wrap up session
View of the dais during the session
Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava, Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the UN, and President of ECOSOC
Around the Venue
Members of the Women's Major Group
Delegates between sessions
Elizabeth Mrema, UN Environment
Delegates speak informally
A delegate visits the International Institute for Sustainable Development's (IISD) SDG Knowledge Hub, an online resource center for news and commentary regarding the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including all 17 SDGs (sdg.iisd.org/)
Around the UN Headquarters
