PROGRAMME FOR ECOSOC INTEGRATION SEGMENT, HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL FORUM ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT OF ECOSOC*
INTEGRATION
HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL FORUM ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SEGMENT
Theme: Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery
for sustainable development
Week 1, 6-10 and 13 July 2020
Wednesday, 8 July
Thursday, 9 July
10
–
11 AM
Building back better after COVID-19:
and acting where we will have the
greatest impact on the SDGs
(continued):
Responding to the economic shock,
relaunching growth and sharing
economic benefits and addressing
developing countries’ financing
challenges
[Most closely related SDGs: SDG 5,
SDG 7, SDG 8, SDG 10, and SDG 17]
11 AM-1 PM
Mobilizing international solidarity,
accelerating action and embarking on
new pathways to realize the 2030
Agenda and the Samoa Pathway
SIDS
Building back better after COVID-19 and
acting where we will have the greatest
impact on the SDGs (continued):
3
–
4 PM
Protecting the planet and building
resilience
[Most
closely related SDGs: SDG 12,
SDG 13, SDG 14, SDG 15, and SDG
17]
4
–
5 PM
Sustaining efforts to ensure access to
sustainable energy
[Most
closely related SDG: SDG 7, SDG
12, SDG 13, and SDG 17]
10
–
11:30 AM
Bolstering local action to
control the pandemic and
accelerate implementation
[Most
closely related SDGs:
SDG 9, SDG 11, and SDG 17]
11:30 AM -1 PM
Are we leaving no one behind
in eradicating poverty and
working towards the 2030
Agenda (including
what
COVID-19 is telling us about
inequalities and the
weaknesses in our social
systems)
Monday,
6 July
Tuesday, 7 July
10
–
10:15 AM
Opening
President of ECOSOC
10:15 AM
–
1 PM
Launching the decade of action at a time of
crisis: Keeping the focus on the SDGs while
combatting COVID-19
The impact of COVID-19 on the SDGs, SDGs
Progress report, 2020 targets, regional
dimensions and countries at different levels of
development including middle-income
countries, data, institutions for integrated
policy making
Friday, 10 July
Means of implementation to
match the scope of the
crisis and the breadth of our
ambition for 2030:
10 -11 AM
Mobilizing well directed
financing
11 AM-12 PM
Science, technology,
innovation
12
–
1 PM
Voluntary national reviews
Two 2
nd
timers (20 minutes
each: one panel with two
countries’ presentation and
Q&A)
3
–
6 PM
Voluntary national reviews
Seven 2
nd
timers (20
minutes each
–
2 panels of
4 countries presentation
and Q&A)
Monday, 13 July
10 AM
–
1 PM
10
–
1 PM
Voluntary national reviews
Seven 2
nd
timers (20
minutes: presentation and
Q&A)
Building back better after COVID-19
and
acting where we will have the greatest impact
on the SDGs
3
–
4 PM
Protecting and advancing human wellbeing
and ending poverty
[Most
closely related SDGs: SDG 1, SDG 3,
SDG 4, SDG 6, SDG 16, and SDG17]
3
–
5 PM
Mobilizing international
solidarity, accelerating action
and embarking on new
pathways to realize the 2030
Agenda and respond to
COVID-19
African countries, Least
Developed Countries and
Landlocked Developing
Countries
3
–
6 PM
Voluntary national reviews
Six 2
nd
timers (20 minutes:
presentation and Q&A
* The programme is based on the Political Declaration adopted at the SDG Summit in September 2019 (A/RES/74/4) and the theme of the HLPF (GA decision A/74/508) and inspired by the GSDR without prejudice to the
ongoing review of the resolutions A/RES/67/290 and A/RES/70/299.
3-6 PM
4 --5 PM
Ending hunger and achieving food security
[Most
closely related SDGs: SDG 2,SDG 3 and
SDG17]
5
–
6 PM
Transformative pathways to realize the 2030
Agenda: a whole of society approach taking
into account the impact of COVID19
(Stakeholder perspective)