With less than four years until the 2030 Agenda’s deadline, government representatives and civil society leaders will meet at the UN as 36 countries will present progress reports on implementing the SDGs. 

As delegates tried to balance ambitious and increasing mandates for the Forum and its Secretariat with increasingly constrained resources, some wondered if scale and velocity can be achieved in time to realize even part of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests by its 2030 deadline.

Ahead of this year’s UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, German stakeholders discussed how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) support resilience in a world of rapid political change. Kurzbericht - 8. Deutsche HLPF-Konferenz (PDF) Briefing Note - Eighth German HLPF Conference (PDF)

Participants discussed the agenda for the Mountain Partnership going forward, including strong calls for reinforcing the science-policy interface and ensuring mountain issues are better reflected in climate and other international processes.