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Actions for Sustainability
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This session asks an overall question on how to ensure effective implementation of the Paris Agreement and the SDGs at the global level. First, the session will introduce key points from the Paris Agreement and the SDGs and looks at what needs to be done to accelerate actions by considering the following four step approach on how we can translate these agreements into action: 1) setting visions and goals; 2) establishing effective processes for implementation; 3) ensuring stakeholder participation for mobilising actions; and 4) introducing and enhancing means of implementation (MOIs), including finance, technology and human capacity.
Speakers
 | Laurence TubianaLaurence Tubiana is the French Ambassador for climate change negotiations, and the special representative for the Paris Climate 2015 conference (COP21). A globally recognized specialist of climate change and development issues, Mrs Tubiana founded in 2001 the Institute for sustainable development and international relations (Iddri) and has authored over a hundred papers, reports and books on these topics. She has also advised Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on sustainable development issues from 1998 to 2002, and held the position of Director of global public goods at the Ministry of Foreign affairs from 2009 to 2010. In addition, Mrs Tubiana currently chairs the Administrative council of the French Development Agency (AFD), co-chairs the Executive Committee of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and is a member of the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board. Close |
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 | Kaveh ZahediKaveh Zahedi is responsible for overseeing the work of the ESCAP Divisions and Institutes supporting the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Prior to joining ESCAP, Mr. Zahedi was Regional Director and Representative for Asia and the Pacific of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), managing UNEP’s technical support programmes and representing the organisation in the region’s major political forums. Mr. Zahedi has also served as Deputy Director of UNEP's Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (UNEP-DTIE), leading work on green economy, resource efficiency and climate change. At UNEP-DTIE he also set up and headed the Climate and Clean Air Coalition for reducing short lived climate pollutants. He has previously also worked in UNEP’s offices in Mexico and Kenya. Before UNEP, Mr. Zahedi worked at an NGO as project manager for micro credit and development projects. An Iranian and British national, he holds a Masters degree from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA, and a BSc first class degree in Economics & Geography, from University College London. Close |
Moderator
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| Date & Time | 12 July 2016, 10:10-11:50 | Language | English /Japanese |
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| Venue | Room503, Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center | Session No. | KD |