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Seventeenth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 17)
4 - 15 May 2009
UN Headquarters, New York, US
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Highlights from Wednesday, 6 May
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Photo: Tariq Banuri, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, CSD Chair Gerda Verburg, and Vivian Pliner, Secretariat, during an evening Plenary session. |
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| A brief plenary session was convened in the evening to hear progress reports from the Working Groups. |
| Working Group 1: Preamble, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interlinkages, Cross-Cutting Issues and Means of Implementation |
| Working Group 1 Co-Chairs Karie Mbuende and Tania Raguz, and Vivian Pliner, Secretariat. |
| Delegates consulting on the text (left photo) and the Lebanese delegation (right photo). |
| Delegates during the negotiations. |
| Delegates from Japan and the US during the discussions. |
| Working Group 2: Land, Drought, Desertification and Africa |
Jimena Leiva Roesch, Guatemala, speaking for the G-77/China on drought. |
Mary Rowen, US (left), and Sean Sullivan, Australia (right), intervening on the text related to desertification. |
| Working Group Co-Chair Ana Bianchi, Argentina, and Anja Kallmeyer, Secretariat (left photo) and members of the Secretariat (right photo). |
| Delegates from Iran, the Republic of Korea and Malawi. |
| Baya Bensmail, Algeria, speaking for the G-77/China on desertification. |
| Side Event: Global Partnership on Nutrient Management, organized by the US Department of State |
John Matuszak, US Department of State, and
Colien Hefferan, US Department of Agriculture. |
| Side Event: Biofuels and Food Security: Avoiding Pitfalls and Mobilizing Potentials, organized by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Government of Austria and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) |
| Hans-Holger Rogner, International Atomic Energy Agency, Rachid Bencherif, OFID, and Mahendra Shah, IIASA. |
| Mahendra Shah introducing the release and distribution of the the OFID-IIASA main report, entitled "Biofuels and Food Security." This side event highlighted the main results of this study. |
Side Event: Sustainable Consumption and Production Towards CSD 18: What are the Key Programmes for Action?
Organized by: Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, in cooperation with UNEP, Belgium, Hungary and Sweden |
| Jirí Hlavácek, Czech Republic, addresses the side event (second from right). |
| Journalism Training for Major Groups, hosted by the Stakeholder Forum |
| This workshop aimed to provide a set of tools and techniques for communicating sustainable development and working with the media at both the national and international levels. |
| Richard Black, BBC Environment Correspondent (left photo), and Jean-Victor Nkolo, UN Department of Public Information with Michael Strauss, media consultant, and Emily Benson, Stakeholder Forum (right photo). |
Press Conference with Danish Minister for Climate and Energy
Connie Hedegaard
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| Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard, who will be presiding over the climate conference in Copenhagen in December. |
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