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
Monday, 6 July
9-9:20 AM
Opening
9:20-10:40 AM
Getting back on
track for achieving
the Sustainable
Development
Goals
10:40-11:50 AM
Leaving no one
behind in the
context of COVID-
19 and the
decade of action
and delivery
11:50-12:00 PM
Closing
Tuesday, 7 July
9 – 9:15 AM
Opening
President of ECOSOC
9:15 AM – 12 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)
Week 1, 6-10 and 13 July 2020
Wednesday, 8 July
Thursday, 9 July
9 – 10 AM
Building back better after COVID-19:
and acting where we will have the
greatest impact on the SDGs
(continued):
Responding to the economic shocks,
relaunching growth, sharing economic
benefits and addressing developing
countries’ financing challenges
[Most closely related SDGs: SDG 5,
SDG 7, SDG 8, SDG 10, and SDG 17]
10 AM-12 PM
Mobilizing international solidarity,
accelerating action and embarking on
new pathways to realize the 2030
Agenda and the Samoa Pathway:
Small Island Developing States
9 – 10:30 AM
Building back better after
COVID-19: and acting where
we will have the greatest
impact on the SDGs
(continued):
Bolstering local action to
control the pandemic and
accelerate implementation
[Most
closely related SDGs:
SDG 9, SDG 11, and SDG 17]
10:30 AM -12 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)
2 – 4 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
Friday, 10 July
Means of implementation to
match the scope of the
crisis and the breadth of our
ambition for 2030:
9-10 AM
Mobilizing well directed
financing
10 -11 AM
Science, technology and
innovation
11 AM – 12 PM
Voluntary national reviews
Nigeria
Slovenia
Monday, 13 July
9 AM – 12 PM
Voluntary national reviews
Bangladesh
Georgia
India
Morocco
Nepal
Niger
Uganda
9 AM – 12 PM
Building back better after COVID-19 and
acting where we will have the greatest
impact on the SDGs
2 – 3 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 -- 4 PM
Ending hunger and achieving food security
[Most
closely related SDGs: SDG 2, SDG 3
and SDG17]
4 – 5 PM
Transformative pathways to realize the
2030 Agenda: a whole of society approach
taking into account the impact of COVID19
(Stakeholder
perspective)
Building back better after COVID-19 and
acting where we will have the greatest
impact on the SDGs
(continued):
2 – 3 PM
Protecting the planet and building
resilience
[Most
closely related SDGs: SDG 12,
SDG 13, SDG 14, SDG 15, and SDG
17]
3 – 4 PM
Sustaining efforts to ensure access to
sustainable energy
[Most
closely related SDGs: SDG 7,
SDG 12, SDG 13, and SDG 17]
2 – 4 PM
Voluntary national reviews
Armenia
Ecuador
Honduras
Kenya
Samoa
2 – 4 PM
Voluntary national reviews
Argentina
Benin
Costa Rica
Panama
Peru
* 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 Global Sustainable Development Report
without prejudice to the ongoing review of the resolutions A/RES/67/290 and A/RES/70/299.
**The above-mentioned SDGs are the ones most closely associated with the theme of these sessions. The sessions will look at synergies and trade-offs among these SDGs and across all the SDGs.
2 – 5 PM