IISD RS @ MDG Summit, Highlights for Tuesday, 21 September 2010, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

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High-level Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly:
“MDG Summit”

20-22 September 2010 | UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

Highlights for Tuesday, 21 September 2010

National flags outside of the UN Headquarters.


	The MDG Summit continued on Tuesday with two plenaries and two high-level roundtables on promoting sustainable development and emerging MDG issues, as well as dozens of side and partnership events. IISD-RS was there to report on 12 of these events, including on infrastructure in Africa, corruption, climate vulnerability, least developed countries (LDCs), innovative financing, and the role of trade unions, the highlights of which are presented below.

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Monday, 20 September - Tuesday, 21 September - Wednesday, 22 September

Decent Work and the MDGs: Keeping the Promise

L-R: Yonnec Polet, Global Progressive Forum; Jane Stewart, Director, International Labour Organization; Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); Moderator Conny Reuter, Secretary General, SOLIDAR; Mira Said, Global Network; and Georgina Opoku Amankwah, ITUC - Africa Women’s Committee

Jane Stewart, Director, International Labour Organization

Moderator Conny Reuter, Secretary General, SOLIDAR

Mira Said, Global Network

Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, ITUC

Participants listening to Mira Said’s presentation.

The Champions of Global Health

The dais during the session.

Bishop Thomas Bickerton

Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, France

Hala Basha-Gorani, CNN International correspondent

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Carol Nawina Nyirenda, Zambia

Bob Geldof, MDG Advocate and Advisor to the ONE Campaign

L-R: Imran Habib Ahmad, ENB; and Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme

Participants during the session.

Scaling up Africa’s Infrastruture

Moderator Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the MDGs

Elham Ibrahim, African Union (AU) Commissioner on Infrastructure and Energy

Obiageli Ezekwesili, World Bank

A view of the room during the session.

Participants watched a movie on sound infrastructure.

Climate Vulnerability and its Impact on the MDGs

Participants during the side event on Climate and Vulnerability and Its Impacts on the MDGs.

Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan

Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP

Dipu Moni, Foreign Minister of Bangladesh

MDG Achievement Fund: Social Justice and the MDGs

L-R: Panelists Richard Morgan, UNICEF Director of Policy and Practice; Jagadish Chandra Pokharel, Vice-Chair of National Planning Commission- Government of Nepal; Charles Abugre, Deputy Director, Africa-UN Millennium Campaign; Rebeca Grynspan, UNDP Associate Administrator; Ashok Bharti, Chairperson of National Confederation of Dalit Organizations (NACDOR), India; and Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Minister of Heritage, Ecuador

A view of the room during the session.

Panelists listening to the presentation of Naila Kabeer, Institute of Development Studies.

Focus Group on MDGs in Asia

L-R: Nila Moeloek, Special Envoy of the President for MDGs, Indonesia; Kasit Piromya, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Thailand; Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP; and Seiji Maehara, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan

L-R: Nila Moeloek, Special Envoy of the President for MDGs, Indonesia; Kasit Piromya, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Thailand; Haruhiko Kuroda, President, Asian Development Bank (ADB); Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP); and Kiyoshi Kodera, Vice-President, Japan International Cooperation Agency

Seiji Maehara, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan

Nila Moeloek, Special Envoy of the President for MDGs, Indonesia

Noeleen Heyzer, ESCAP

Haruhiko Kuroda, President, ADB

Kasit Piromya, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Thailand

Leading Group on Innovative Sources of Financing

L-R: Ángel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD; Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Jordan; Bernard Kouchner, Foreign Minister, France; Seiji Maehara, Foreign Minister, Japan; Charles Michel, Minister for Development Cooperation, Belgium; and Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Development

Ángel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD

Erik Solheim, Minister of Environment and International Development, Norway

Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Jordan; and Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Development

Charles Michel, Minister for Development Cooperation, Belgium

Seiji Maehara, Foreign Minister, Japan

Participants during the session.

Leading Group on Innovative Sources of Financing

Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey; Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh; and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Prime Minister of Belgium Yves Leterme proposed an international currency transaction levy as a means to raise money for the LDCs.

Arjun Karki, LDC Watch, lamented that many financial commitments to the LDCs have not been honored.

The MDGs and Anti-Corruption

L-R: Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, UNDP; Huguette Labelle, Chair, Transparency International; Richard Boucher, Deputy Secretary General, OECD; and Selim Jahan, UNDP

Selim Jahan, UNDP

Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, UNDP

Huguette Labelle, Chair, Transparency International

L-R: Gregory Adams, Oxfam America; Galina Mikhlin-Oliver, World Bank; Minar Pimple, UN Millennium Campaign; and John Rwangombwa, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Rwanda

Galina Mikhlin-Oliver, World Bank

Gregory Adams, Oxfam America

Ilari Rantakari, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland

Participants during the discussion.

Participants during the session.

World Business and Development Awards


	The 2010 World Business Development Awards are distributed to ten businesses who are fighting poverty and demonstrating business success.

Mo Ibrahim, Mo Ibrahim Foundation, cited bad governance as a cause for the current economic crisis.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia, delivered opening remarks on the role of business in development.

Martha Herrara, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility - CEMEX Mexico, received an award for her programme, which provides support to poor families for house construction materials.

Anant Kumar, President, LifeSpring Hospitals, received an award for his business model, which provides inexpensive medical care to women in India.

L-R: Samer Hajee and Julio De Souza, CEO and COO of Nuru Energy, respectively, were award recipients for a business centered on providing renewable light energy to people in Rwanda, Kenya and India.

Ending Energy Poverty: Towards Universal Access

Minoru Takada, UNDP

Heinz Fischer, President of Austria

Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia

Around the Summit

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Monday, 20 September - Tuesday, 21 September - Wednesday, 22 September