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It addresses the critical environmental challenges facing the world today. Understanding these challenges and preserving and rehabilitating our environment is at the heart of the Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Environment Assembly meets biennially to set priorities for global environmental policies and develop international environmental law.
Through its resolutions and calls to action, the Assembly provides leadership and catalyses intergovernmental action on the environment. The establishment of the Environment Assembly was the culmination of decades of international efforts, initiated at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in and aimed at creating a coherent system of international environmental governance.
It adopted a Ministerial Declaration and adopted 11 resolutions and 3 decisions , calling for accelerated action and strengthened partnerships on, inter alia: combating the spread of marine plastic litter and microplastics; eliminating exposure to lead paint and promoting environmentally sound management of used lead-acid batteries; environment and health; improving air quality globally; pollution control by mainstreaming biodiversity into key sectors; addressing water pollution to protect and restore water-related ecosystems; managing soil pollution to achieve sustainable development; and pollution prevention and control in areas affected by terrorist operations and armed conflicts.
Over 4, delegates participated in UNEA-3 and its related events, including about delegates from more than Member States, more than representatives of Major Groups and other stakeholders, and 94 intergovernmental organizations. More information is available here. The book has been published in 36 languages, and over the years it has authoritatively assessed issues ranging from population, energy, and agriculture to materials use, health, and trade policy. Topics are covered from a global perspective, with an emphasis on innovation and problem-solving.
News media, policymakers, and NGOs worldwide cite the book for its cutting-edge analysis, reliability, and careful documentation of its arguments, all marshaled to speed the global transition to a sustainable world. Skip to Main Content Area. Shopping cart There are no products in your shopping cart. UN Human Rights.
The coordination group for the civil society participation for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development Addis Ababa, July has convened a forum for civil society in advance of the conference. One outcome of this forum was a declaration with reflections and recommendations to the Member States of the United Nations and the international community. Furthermore, the CSO FfD group published a statement, expressing the concerns and demands they have regarding the draft outcome document of the Conference on Financing for Development. This week, we witness state leaders, high-level officials, civil society groups, and business representatives convene for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development FfD3 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss and agree on an action plan for financing development, including the Sustainable Development Goals to be adopted by UN member states in the September Summit.
There is no mention at all of peace dividends generated from the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons, and the reduction in defense spending. Debt relief and condonation are treated marginally. The emerging document suggests business as usual. Social Watch Philippines. During preparatory negotiations in New York, a proposal surfaced that would upgrade a UN expert committee on the issue into a full-fledged political, and more importantly universal, commission.
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The commission could deal with issues like fighting tax evasion and avoidance, could set standards for double taxation agreements and for how to deal with transnational corporations. This proposal, however was rejected with force by most OECD governments. Wolfgang Obenland. The debt crisis in Greece dominates the news in Europe but a significant related event lacks public attention — the 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development FFD3. This is being held in Ethiopia from 13 to 16 July and is designed to come up with proposals on how to shape international financial relations more equally and to finance efforts to advance sustainable development.
FFD3 deals with vital issues such as the mobilization of domestic resources and reform of tax policies, the role of private finance, debt and debt sustainability, trade, and reforms in the international financial system. As things stand now, however, things look bleak. The draft for an outcome document of the Addis Ababa conference, at the moment being called Addis Ababa Action Agenda , is full of rhetoric but little action. The mistrust between the global North and South seems overwhelming. Jens Martens. Public-private partnerships often referred to as PPPs are increasingly promoted as a way to finance development projects.
Donor governments and financial institutions, such as the World Bank, have set up multiple donor initiatives to promote changes in national regulatory frameworks to allow for PPPs, as well as provide advice and finance to PPP projects. PPPs also feature prominently in the discussions around the post and the financing for development agendas.
Currently, there is a strong push to increase the involvement of the private sector in the development arena and to promote PPPs as key tool to reach the soon to be agreed sustainable development goals. This report published by eurodad critically assesses whether PPPs deliver on the promises of their proponents and gives concrete recommendations for policymakers.
The statement urges the Council to act now and end the violence and discrimination suffered by LGBTI people around the world.
It welcomes the resolution passed by the Council in September but expresses concern about severe human rights violations from State and non-State actors because of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or intersex status. But the GFF Investors Group is a self-selected, exclusive body and not subject to intergovernmental oversight and mutual accountability mechanisms. Global Trends analyzes current developments and longer-term trends in the fields of peace and security, world economy and society, and sustainable development.
Global Trens has been first launched in and it is based on a wealth of statistical data and information from a variety of international sources and presents its findings in a clear and accessible format. Applying a multidisciplinary approach, it aims to explain patterns and linkages in complex global processes and identify the potential for more responsible global governance. For the first time, an unabridged English translation of Global Trends is available as an online publication.
Global Trends. During the 3rd official drafting session to formulate an outcome document for the 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development, a coalition of 30 NGOs from around the globe are urging governments to pave the way for setting up an intergovernmental body on tax cooperation with universal membership under the roof of the United Nations. To 'sweeten the deal' for delegates, and to strengthen their resolve, negotiators received a little gift of chocolate, which came right in time just after lunch.
Of course, arguments were also provided for why the world needs a new institution for a truly global tax governance.
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Eurodad, GPF, et al. But can Green Growth also mitigate climate change at the required scale and pace? Is it the solution to the multiple crises we are facing or an excuse to do nothing fundamental to bring about a U-turn of global Greenhouse Gas emissions? A new paper by Ulrich Hoffmann argues that resource efficiency, re-structuring of economies and a change in the energy mix are not sufficient to cope with the complexities of climate change.
A much deeper transformation is required: climate change threatens the global equality of opportunity for prosperity and is thus a huge developmental challenge for all countries, but particularly for the global South. Ulrich Hoffmann.
State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability
In line with ongoing trends in the landscape of development assistance, deliberations thus far have shown a strong promotion, especially by Northern countries, of increased reliance on private sector sources for development funding. Two new studies set out to interrogate what does this mean for the language on human rights accountability of the private sector that we should expect to see negotiated in the conference, and whether expectations are being met by reality. Aldo Caliari. NGOs, particularly those seeking to imagine and practice alternatives, are confronted with the pitfalls of this aspiration and the reality of being a part of the structured mainstream development apparatus.
Very little practical research has been conducted so far, both about the consequences for their work, as well as conflicts within Post-Development theory itself. Indeed, although Post-Development has been discussed extensively on a theoretical level and been criticized for lacking propositions of concrete and constructive alternatives, spaces for a practical Post-Development implementation have yet to be explored. In this discussion Julia Schoeneberg aims to investigate what practical contribution Post-Development has to offer for progressive development work.
The focus of her paper is laid on partnerships and cooperation between Haitian and international NGOs.
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As governments negotiate the Third Financing for Development Conference FFD 3 to be held in Addis Ababa July , an important decision that they will have to make refers to the follow-up process. This brief piece by CIDSE offers some thoughts on the international dimensions of such monitoring, accountability and review mechanisms.
The briefing note elucidates that the FFD follow-up process has two roles to fulfill: it should serve as a coordination forum for tracking progress on all sources of finance for development, and secondly it should support the SDGs. Nevertheless the paper points out why it is crucial that the FFD follow-up process needs to be separate and autonomous from the Post agenda.
For decades, development policy was shaped by the notion that the poor countries of the Global South needed money from the wealthy North in order to advance in their development. In the current Global Governance Spotlight, GPF's Wolfgang Obenland, analyses the negotiations on the outcome document of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, scheduled to take place from 13 to 17 July in Addis Ababa, and shares his assessment regarding its progressiveness.
Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden. The question of how to align those policies with our objectives here requires us to urgently re-order the hierarchy of obligations to which many Member States currently subscribe. It is a question of policy coherence at its most stark. CESR has long argued that embedding meaningful accountability into the post agenda will be critical to ensure it stands any chance of achieving its goals and creating real, empowering change on the ground.
In advance of these negotiations, CESR - along with Amnesty International, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Human Rights Watch — has developed a proposal for a robust monitoring mechanism at the international level, with the human rights principles of transparency, participation, universality and accountability at its core. The new working paper by Christian Aid and the Center for Economic and Social Rights responds to the list of preliminary indicators that the the United Nations Statistical Commission is considering. Their analysis and concrete proposals are based on the premise that a human rights-aligned fiscal data revolution is essential to expose the hidden injustices buried in the way resource-related policies are conducted, and who truly benefits from them.
The absence of specific targets for monitoring and accountability implies specific consensus about next steps is missing. In fact, many of the targets are essentially impossible to assess quantitatively because they refer to concepts for which there are no indicators or no internationally agreed definition.
Governments are primarily responsible to their own citizens through oversight bodies such as parliaments, and so it will be up to civil society to demand and promote regular reporting on national progress. Future United Nations Development System.
ISBN: Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the. Tom Prugh is co-director of the State of the World project at the to , and also co-directed State of the World Is Sustainability Still.
Their call was issued as UN Member States started discussions to finalize the draft set of 17 sustainable development goals which will be put forward for adoption by heads of state at a UN summit in New York in September The statement also highlights the important role to be played by the private sector in achieving the SDGs, and the importance of ensuring private sector accountability. Dealing with responsibilities in a financing sustainable development context, this event seeks to generate discussion on conceptual challenges such as an evenhanded approach to the three pillars of sustainable development, adapting a framework like the Financing for Development process to the universal agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals without denaturalizing and decontextualizing it and how to incorporate important principles agreed at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.
This is to include not only a list of universal Sustainable Development Goals SDGs but also a mechanism for monitoring and review. What would the review mechanism have to look like to contribute to the implementation of sustainable development? Marianne Beisheim, researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs SWP examines the debate taking place over the review process, highlights the positions of selected key actors, discusses criteria for designing a review, and applies these to analyze and assess existing review systems.
In a new report released by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office, Barbara Adams and Kathryn Tobin give their take on the post process and suggest how various actors can intervene to shape proposed new goals. The Sustainable Development Goals will determine the global development agenda for years to come. If processes converge to create a universial and effective agenda, which holds governments and others to account, the UN would reassert itself for addressing the many conflicts that cannot be resolved by individual countries.
Such an accomplishment would have implications for a whole spectrum of issues, and it is not too late for the United Nations, member states, and international civil society to make this happen. Indeed, CESR states that data can illuminate human rights problems and help to identify potential policy solutions. Not only does it provide and aggregate information about people, it should also be used for and by people to help them shift power imbalances, claim their rights and procure the services to which they are entitled to realize those rights. However, CESR cautions that transformative change is still ultimately a question of political will and power.
Data must not be perceived as a quick fix to solve global poverty and inequality, rather it is part of a much broader development approach that engages with communities and ensures they have the means to challenge development injustices. On September 19 , Global Policy Forum, in collaboration with MISEREOR, hosted an expert panel discussion that raised many strategic questions on the topic of financing the post sustainable development agenda and the sustainable development goals. Many of the answers to these questions depend on the outcomes of negotiations in the run up to the UN Financing for Development Conference in July and the expected UN Summit to pass a post agenda in September In the meantime, however, the workshop presented an opportunity for civil society, academia and government experts to reach some consensus on the crucial issues that need to be addressed before any agreements are finalized next year.
The German NGO Forum on Environment and Development, in cooperation with various other German civil society actors, has published a position paper outlining eight key aspects that need to be further built on by the post Global Development and Sustainability Agenda.
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Key elements include: a decent life for all; human rights; gender; generational and distributive justice and respect of planetary boundaries; the complete eradication of extreme poverty and hunger; and the safeguarding of natural resources and ecosystems — elements for which the Global North and Global South have a common but differentiated responsibility. The group of NGOs states that the implementation of the post agenda must become a political priority and cannot be allowed to fail due to short-term political thinking, a lack of political will, disputes about matters of competencies, or a refusal to provide the required financing.
The General Assembly agreed on September 10, that the proposal of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs would be the main basis for a concise set of sustainable development goals that will encapsulate a truly transformative post development agenda.