General Assembly of the United Nations
Economic and Financial - Second Committee

Second Committee

List of agenda items and their periodicity

 

Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources

Annual

Information and communication technologies for development

Annual
(GA res. 58/316)

Macroeconomic policy questions:

 

(a)  International trade and development

Annual

(b)  International financial system and development

Annual

(c)  External debt sustainability and development

Annual

(d)  Commodities

Biennial (66th ...)

Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development

Annual

Sustainable development:

 

(a)  Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Annual

(b)  Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

Annual

(c)  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

Annual

(d)  Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind

Annual

(e)  Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

Annual

(f)  Convention on Biological Diversity

Annual

(g)  Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme

Annual

(h)  Harmony with Nature

Annual
(GA res. 64/196 )

(i)  Sustainable mountain development

Biennial (66th ...)

(j)  Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy

Biennial (66th ...)

(k) United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Quinquiennial (70th...)

Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Annual

Globalization and interdependence:

 

(a)  Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence

Annual

(b)  International migration and development

Biennial (67th ...)

(c) Science and technology for development

Biennial (66th ...)

(d) Development cooperation with middle-income countries

Biennial
(GA res 64/208 )

Groups of countries in special situations:

 

(a)  Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

Annual

(b)  Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: outcome of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation

Annual

Eradication of poverty and other development issues:

 

(a)  Implementation of the second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017)

Annual

(b)  Industrial development cooperation

Biennial (67th ...)

(c)  Women in development

Biennial (66th ...)

(d)  Human resources development

Biennial (66th ...)

Operational activities for development:

 

(a)  Operational activities for development of the United Nations system

Annual

(b)  South-South cooperation for development

Biennial (66th ...)

(c)  Comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of
the United Nations system

Quadriennial (67th ...)

Towards global partnerships

Biennial (66th ...)

Agriculture development and food security

Annual
(GA res 63/235)

 

[13 September 2011]

 

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