Dear Colleagues,
Where are we nearly four years after the historic adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change? We have just released our summary of the sixth session of the Global Platform on DRR, which took stock of progress on the Sendai Framework. Now, our teams are preparing to cover events in July, September, and December that will answer similar questions with regard to the other two 2015 landmark agreements.
Hot Off the Press
The sixth session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction took stock of countries’ progress toward achieving the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and affirmed the role of DRR in scaling up action on climate adaptation and resilience. Delegates urged governments to step up their efforts in implementing the Sendai Framework. The Chairs’ Summary of the event includes recommendations for a mid-term review of the Sendai Framework and calls for DRR to be fully integrated in the implementation of the SDGs. http://enb.iisd.org/undrr/
The fourth annual meeting of the Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—STI Forum 2019—featured a series of 90-second innovation pitches and nine substantive panel discussions. The Forum also examined the way forward for the facilitation of STI for the SDGs, with calls for, inter alia, greater science-business connections to drive implementation, more resources and funding, operationalization of an online inventory of STI, and making the STI Forum a culmination of intersessional work. Results from the Forum will be forwarded to the July 2019 meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). http://enb.iisd.org/sdgs/sti/
Delegates at the 49th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-49) considered the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2019 Refinement), among other issues. On Sunday evening, 12 May 2019, they adopted the Overview Chapter of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2019 Refinement) and accepted the underlying report. The 2019 Refinement is expected to help the Paris Agreement implementation process. http://enb.iisd.org/vol12/
Happening This Week
Our team is in Nairobi, Kenya, for the third and final substantive session of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) to consider a global pact for the environment. The Co-Chairs’ summary of the second substantive session identifies different views on the nature and format that a pact should take, ranging from a legally-binding instrument to a high-level political declaration or a document agreed by the General Assembly. On the first day, delegates discussed the objectives that should inform the Group’s recommendations, the substantive recommendations themselves, and the process for achieving them. Differences in views emerged on process questions, particularly on references to considering adoption of an international instrument, with no consensus on whether to pursue a new international instrument, either binding or non-binding. Our daily webpage updates and photos from the meeting are here: http://enb.iisd.org/unep/
Later this week, will be in Heidelberg, Germany, reporting on discussions at the International Conference on Climate Action. This event will consider how vertical and horizontal cooperation can strengthen climate mitigation and adaptation activities. The event will also seek to provide inputs to the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit, which will take place in September 2019. http://sdg.iisd.org/events/
On the Horizon
We are looking forward to covering the proceedings of the UN Human Settlements Programme’s (UN-Habitat) first ever UN-Habitat Assembly session, which opens on 27 May. As decided in UN General Assembly Resolution 73/239, adopted in December 2018, the UN-Habitat Assembly replaces the Governing Council and will be the highest-level decision-making body on sustainable urbanization and human settlements. http://enb.iisd.org/habitat/
Next week we will also be at the fifth edition of Global Soil Week (GSW 2019), which will focus on the theme, ‘Creating Enabling Environments for Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Agriculture in Africa.’ We have been pleased to cover each of the four previous GSW events, and encourage you to review the issues discussed under the previous topics: Catalyzing SDG Implementation through a Land and Soil Review; Soil: The Substance of Transformation; Losing Ground?; and Soils for Life. http://enb.iisd.org/soil/gsw5/
Our calendar for June is filling up quickly. We will be bringing you news about the ideas discussed at the World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF 2019), the Annual General Meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED AGM), the 56th Global Environment Facility Council meeting, the 20th Meeting of the UN Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea and the 2019 Bonn Climate Change Conference, among other events. Watch this space for further updates on all of our coverage.
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