Expert panel on “Integrating population issues into sustainable development, including in the post-2015 development agenda”

UN Headquarters, Conference Room 5, New York, 22 January 2015 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

The special theme for the forty-eighth session of the Commission on Population and Development, which will take place in April 2015, will be “Realizing the future we want: Integrating population issues into sustainable development, including in the post-2015 development agenda”. In preparation for the Commission, six invited experts will present their recent work and engage in a moderated discussion on the state of scientific knowledge on some of the main substantive issues that are expected to be discussed during the week of the Commission.

Provisional Agenda

• Opening Remarks
  • H.E. Ms. Bénédicte Frankinet, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative, Belgium
• Brief overview of major population trends
  • Mr. John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division/DESA
• Session 1: Inter-active dialogue on “Population dynamics, economic development, and poverty”
  • Jocelyn Finlay, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
  • Sajeda Amin, The Population Council, New York
  • Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Cornell University
  • Moderator: Mr. John Wilmoth
• Session 2: Inter-active dialogue on “Population, resources, the environment, and climate change”
  • Lori Hunter, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Leiwan Jiang, National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • Alex de Sherbinin, Columbia University
  • Moderator: Mr. John Wilmoth
• Closing Remarks
  • H.E. Ms. Bénédicte Frankinet, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative, Belgium

Report of the Meeting

Expert panel on “Integrating population issues into sustainable development, including in the post-2015 development agenda”

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Background Documents

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