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

Second Committee

List of agenda items and their periodicity

 

Information and communications technologies for development

Annual

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 (72nd ...)

     (e)  Financial inclusion for sustainable development

Biennial (72nd ...)

Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences 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 and of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

Annual

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

Annual

     (c)  Disaster risk 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 United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme

Biennial (71st ...)

     (h)  Harmony with Nature

Annual

     (i)  Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy

Biennial (71st ...)

     (j)  Sustainable mountain development

Biennial (71st...)

    (k)  Education for sustainable development

Biennial (72nd ...)

Global Code of Ethics for Tourism

Quinquiennial (75th ...)

Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development 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

Biennial (72nd ...)

     (b)  International migration and development

Biennial (71st...)

     (c)  Science, technology and innovation for development

Biennial (72nd ...)

     (d)  Culture and sustainable development

Biennial (72nd ...)

     (e)  Development cooperation with middle-income countries

Biennial (72nd ...)

Groups of countries in special situations:

 

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

Annual

     (b)  Follow-up to the second United Nations conference on landlocked developing countries

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 (71st ...)

     (c)  Women in development

Biennial (72nd ...)

     (d)  Human resources development

Biennial (72nd ...)

Operational activities for development:

 

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

Annual

     (b)  South-South cooperation for development

Annual

Agriculture development, food security and nutrition

Annual

Towards global partnerships

Biennial (72nd ...)

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

 

 

[26 September 2016]

 

 

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