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

New York

Date:

22 January 2015

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

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

Provisional Agenda

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