Highlights and images for 9 July 2018

Summary

The 2018 meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) convened Monday at UN Headquarters in New York. In the morning, the opening session focused on progress in achieving the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A session on implementing the 2030 Agenda for resilient societies followed, with sub-sessions on:

  • reviewing progress in achieving the SDGs; and
  • better data for sustainable development.

In the afternoon, a review of SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) took place.

For extensive details on the day’s negotiations and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin.

Visit our coverage of selected side events at HLPF 2018

IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, provided daily digital coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from HLPF 2018.

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Opening Session

View of the dais during the opening session

Marie Chatardová, President, UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

Liu Zhenmin, UN Under-Secretary-General, Economic and Social Affairs

María Soledad Cisternas Reyes, UNSG Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility

Jeffrey Sachs, Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Alex Steffen, Co-founder, Worldchanging.com

Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Resilient Societies

View of the dais during the session

Åsa Regnér, Assistant-Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, UN Women

Moderator Emily Pryor, Executive Director, Data2X

Pádraig Dalton, Director General, Central Statistics Office of Ireland

Sofia Monsalve Suárez, Secretary General, Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN) International, and NGO Major Group

Grace Bediako, Acting Director-General, National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Ghana

Georges-Simon Ulrich, Switzerland

Alzouma Maiga Idriss, Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities

Zachary Chege, Chair, UN Statistical Commission, and Chief Statistician, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Nancy Potok, Chief Statistician, US

Shaida Badiee, Managing Director and Co-founder, Open Data Watch

Leesha Delatie-Budair, Deputy Director General, Statistical Institute of Jamaica

Review of SDG Implementation:
SDG 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Mahmadamin Mahmadaminov, Vice-President, ECOSOC

Moderator Joakim Harlin, Vice Chair, UN-Water

Mina Guli, Water Advocate and Ultra Runner

Stefan Uhlenbrook, Coordinator, UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), UNESCO

Yongyi Min, Statistics Division, UN DESA

Delegates watch a video presentation during the session

Claudia Sadoff, Director General, International Water Management Institute

Danilo Türk, Chair, Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace, and former President of Slovenia

Callist Tindimugaya, Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda

Thomas Stratenwerth, Ministry for Environment, Germany

Lucía Ruíz, Vice Minister of Environment, Peru

Ney Maranhão, Director, National Water Resources Agency, Brazil

Léo Heller, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation

Florencio Marerua, Country Director, Mozambique, WaterAid, and NGO Major Group

Around the Venue

Panelists and members of the UN meet informally on the dais

Delegates between sessions

Delegates speak informally

Jamil Ahmad, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) speaks with Jeffrey Sachs, Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University