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Satoyama Initiative: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
This HLPF side event shared how the Satoyama Initiative teaches that living in harmony with nature requires communities to consider issues of biodiversity, climate change, and zoonotics simultaneously.
HLPF 2021 Local and Regional Governments’ Day and Forum
Transformation of work and evolving production and consumption patterns are essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Local and Regional Governments are raising ambitions and actions on SDGs at the local level, through solidarity and multilevel governance.
Forests, Trees and Poverty Alleviation in Africa: An Expanded Policy Brief
This HLPF side event saw the launch of the Expanded Policy Brief for African Stakeholders on Forests, Trees and Poverty Alleviation in Africa, which aims to raise awareness of the role of forests and trees to alleviate poverty.
Towards a Road to Sustainable and Resilient Recovery in Mountains
In 2017, half the population in mountainous areas faced food insecurity—and that was before the pandemic. This HLPF side event heard that building back better will require rethinking economic growth, with responsible production and consumption patterns.
Berlin Forum Press Conference
Stressing that banning or regulating individual chemicals is insufficient, the event called for fundamental regulations that apply to all chemicals at the global level.
Sustainable Fashion Hard Talk
Organized by the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion, this HLPF side event aimed to spark discussion on turning fashion into a driver of sustainable development and pandemic recovery and provide countries guidance to achieve this.
Berlin Forum on Chemicals and Sustainability
Many participants raised the need for a science-policy interface (SPI) on chemicals and wastes—noting any such body should be global, authoritative, “horizon scanning,” prestigious, independent and inclusive.
Carbon Neutrality & Social Transformation: Are We on Track to Arrive at a Justice-based Transition?
This HLPF side event identified key requirements for achieving carbon neutrality and a just transformation, including ensuring universal access to energy and clean cooking, engaging with all stakeholders, adopting nature-based solutions, and greening supply chains.
2021 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2021)
“Let us renew our determination to build a strong, sustainable, and inclusive recovery from the pandemic, and to take decisive action together to defeat the climate crisis and keep the promise of the 2030 Agenda,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.