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SDG Action Zone: Planet
What do migrants’ access to healthcare during COVID-19, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) advocates, resilient food systems, urban mobility, and circular economies have in common? These and other diverse topics were unpacked during the second day of the SDG Action Zone, which focused on ‘the planet’. The main thread of our planet’s survival in the face of unsustainable practices by consumerist societies weaved through all sessions, with Nadira Hira, Master of Ceremony, opening the day and encouraging participants and the audience to “keep up the amazing energy” to drive the exponential change needed for the people and planet.
SDG Action Zone: Partnerships
During the third day of the SDG Action Zone, the focus was on partnerships, with participants examining what the world really wants, what policies are needed to turn unwise practices into robust, lasting actions, and where both data and young people might help catalyze healthy solutions for change.
Master of Ceremony Nadira Hira opened the third day’s session, declaring that the urgency, optimism and incredible stories of the previous days had inspired new and different partners through a unique virtual platform. She invited everyone to “smash the silos” and join hands to achieve the SDGs during the coming decade.
Nature for Life: SDG Day
The Nature for Life Hub’s first day was organized under the theme of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sessions held during the day explored ways in which protecting, restoring, and sustainably managing nature can support achieving the SDGs, in particular relating to climate change, health, security, water, jobs and livelihoods.
Nature for Life: Business and Finance Day
The Nature for Life: Business and Finance Day focused on how to better align goals to protect, restore and sustainably manage nature with goals for sustainable economic development and financial investment. Different sessions considered various elements of the topic, with a key theme being the need to disrupt business-as-usual by placing nature at the center of decision-making, and by launching new initiatives that focus on improved reporting, data, and risk management.
Nature for Life: Global Ambition Day
The third day of the UN Development Programme’s Nature for Life events convened global leaders and stakeholders in a “whole-of-society approach,” showcasing their commitment to urgent and transformational actions to promote a nature-based planetary safety net in response to planetary emergencies. It included sessions on the “what,” the “why” and the “how” of constructing a nature-based safety net.
Bonn Climate Change Conference - October 2014
Despite limited progress overall, many delegates appreciated that the meeting had provided much-needed space for more in-depth exchanges of views. Many felt the meeting helped clarify countries’ and groups’ understanding of the spectrum of views, possible areas of convergence and divergence, and what underlies their positions and how these concerns might be addressed in Lima in December.