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- 9/2/10 - MSI+5: Pacific island nations at UN meeting call on world to fulfil aid commitments
- 9/2/10 - Haiti: Haiti: UN seeks to restore Haiti’s quake-shattered weather services to prevent further disasters
- 9/2/10: UN uses nuclear technology to improve child nutrition
- 8/2/10 SG - Africa: Secretary-General calls for stronger partnership for African development
- 8/2/10: Financial crisis should spur ‘clean’ growth in developing nations
- 8/2/10 - Chad: Chadian herders to benefit from UN funding for water projects
- 8/2/10 - Africa: West African collaboration for gender equality enhanced by new UN initiative
- 8/2/10 - DR Congo: More than 8,000 women raped last year by fighters in eastern DR Congo
- 8/2/10 - Haiti: Haiti: UN faces race against time and weather to obtain hazard-proof shelters for Haiti
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Invitations to Contribute to NRF issues: May 2010 Viewpoints - by 28 Feb 2010 November 2010 Special Issue on Transport - by 15 Apr 2010 |
Events
- Calendar of Events
- 12 Jan 2010: CSD Thematic Seminar Series
"Waste Management"
UNHQ - 1 Feb 2010: CSD-17 Follow-up:
"Multistakeholder Dialogue on Implementing Sustainable Development"
UNHQ - 8-9 Feb 2010: SIDS:
SIDS: Pacific Regional Meeting
Vanuatu - Seminar Postponed 11 Feb 2010:
Seminar Series:
CSD-18 Thematic Seminar Series - Mining
UNHQ - 22 Feb-23 June: Conference:
Joint Conference of the Parties, Basil, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
Bali, Indonesia - 24-26 Feb 2010: Special Session:
11th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council / Global Miniserial Envrionment Forum
Bali, Indonesia
Publications
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Invitations to Contribute to NRF issues: May 2010 Viewpoints - by 28 Feb 2010 November 2010 Special Issue on Transport - by 15 Apr 2010 |
- GA-64 Secretary-General Reports and Briefings on the reports
- Jan 2010:
Innovation Briefs - Issue 8:
Foreign land purchases for agriculture: what impact on sustainable development?
- Policy Brief #27: Can we Avert the Next Dollar Crisis? - Dec 2009:
- A Global Green New Deal for Climate, Energy, and Development (Technical Note)
- COP15 DSD Policy Brief #1: Ocean Acidification: A Hidden Risk for Sustainable Development
Technical Note: A Global Green New Deal for Climate, Energy, and Development
- Policy Brief #26: Ocean Acidification: A Hidden Risk for Sustainable Development
- Policy Brief #25: The challenges of adapting to a warmer planet for urban growth and development - Nov 2009:
UN-Water Key Messages on Climate Change and Water
Natural Resources Forum:
Volume 33 Issue 4 - FREE
Special Issue: climate change & sustainable development
Sustainable Development Insights - Issue 2:
Rio + 20: Another World Summit?
CSD News
- CSD-18 Home Page
- MSI+5: deadline 15 March '10
MSI+5 application for non-accredited Major Groups organisations - Seminar Postponed
Thematic Seminar Series
11 Feb 2010: Mining - Postponed - CSD-17 Follow-up:
Multistakeholder Dialogue on Implementing Sustainable Development
1 Feb 2010 - UNHQ - Side Events: Guidelines
- Germany to fund two African youth representatives at CSD-18
- Learning Centre: Call for Proposals
- Jan 2010:
MGs Pre-registration for CSD-18 & Rio +20 PrepCom Opens - Innovation:
CSD-17 Follow-up - Multistakeholder Dialogue on Implementing Sustainable Development:
1 Feb 2010 - UNHQ - Discussion papers submitted by MGs
- Innovation:
Thematic Seminar Series
12 Jan 2010: Waste Management
e-discussion - Video Format Guidelines
- Status as of Dec 09:
National Information Reporting for CSD-18/19 - CSD-18 Bureau meetings
- RIMs
- "A Much-needed Consensus on Agriculture & Rural Development for Food Security"
by Nikhil Chandavarkar
Sustainable Development
DSD promotes sustainable development as the substantive secretariat to the CSD and through technical cooperation and capacity-building at the international, regional and national levels.
The achievement of sustainable development requires the integration of its economic, environmental and social components at all levels. This is facilitated by continuous dialogue and action in global partnership, focusing on key sustainable development issues
Spotlight - MSI+5
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Spotlight - CSD-18 Thematic Seminar Series
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Spotlight - CSD-17 Follow-up
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DSD in Focus
Milestones Core Publications (Agenda 21) Calendar of Events
Working Together
- Inter-agency Coordination – DSD supports UN-OCEANS and hosts the Secretariat of UN-Energy and UN-Water, the interagency mechanisms to strengthen coordination and coherence among all UN bodies dealing with energy and water related issues.
- International Mobilization
- Water for Life Decade - to promote the fulfillment of international commitments made on water and water-related issues by 2015.
- International Year of Sanitation 2008 - to put the global community on track to halve the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015.
- Technical Cooperation – DSD targeted advisory services at the request of individual governments to support specific policy initiatives, institutional development and capacity-building.