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16 May 2008

8:30 - 10:00

ECOSOC Chamber
(closed)

Early-Morning, Closed Ministerial Meeting/Straight Talk: Introductory Session
10:00 - 13:00

Conf. Room 4
(Plenary)

The Way Forward (cont.)
15:00 - 16:30

Conf. Room 4
(Plenary)

Closing Session

The Chair's Summary - Part II will be distributed at 15:00.

16:30 - 18:00

Conf. Room 4
(Plenary)

Chair: CSD-16 Chair

The Chair will invite delegates to make brief factual comments on Chair's Summary - Part II. The Chair will ask the meeting to adopt the Report of the 16th sessions of the Commission on Sustainable Development.

The Chair will then invite closing statements. The meeting will adjourn and reconvene as CSD-17 to elect a Chair and Bureau for CSD-17.

 
10:00 - 13:00   No activity scheduled
15:00 - 17:30

 

No activity scheduled
 
10:00 - 13:00

Conf. Room 6

Breakthrough Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture, Land, Drought and Rural Development

Sponsor: State University of NY at Stony Brook

15:00 - 18:00  

No course scheduled

 
13:15 - 14:45 Conf. Room 6 Gender Justice and Rural Development - 3rd Helena Benitez Global Forum

Organized by: Philippine Women's University
Conf. Room B Land Use and Sustainable Development for Host Communities in the Extractive Sector

Organized by: Women's Right to Education (WREP)
 

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North East Gallery, Visitors' Lobby, UNHQ

Hard Rain - Our Headlong Collision with Nature: Photographs illustrating climate change, poverty and the sixth great extinction

Organized by: Still Pictures, UNEP and UNDP

10:00 - 17:00 UNFF Website Webforum on "Reversing the loss of forest cover, preventing forest degradation in all types of forests and combating desertification, including low forest cover countries"

Organized by: UN Forum on Forests Secretariat

10:00 - 17:00

UN Visitors Lobby

Natural World Museum International Art Exhibition: Art, Attitudes & Environment

Organized by: UN DPI, UNEP, Natural World Museum

 
8:30 - 9:00

Conf. Room A

Youth and Children
9:00 - 10:00 Conf. Room A NGOs informational meeting
10:00 - 11:00 Conf. Room A Global Public Private Network on Water and Sanitation
11:00 - 12:00 Conf. Room A Scientific and Technological Community
12:00 -13:00 Conf. Room A Local Authorities
13:00 - 14:00 Conf. Room A Indigenous People
14:00 - 15:00 Conf. Room A African Region
15:00 - 16:00 Conf. Room A Business and Industry
16:00 - 17:00 Conf. Room A Drylands
17:00 - 18:00 Conf. Room A Workers and Trade Unions
18:00 - 19:00 Conf. Room A NGOs review strategy meeting
19:00 - 20:00 Conf. Room A