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CSD-15: UN Meeting on Sustainable Development

Learn about the 15th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-15), side events, partnerships fair, and learning center activities. Understand how to engage as an NGO and navigate UN language.

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CSD-15: UN Meeting on Sustainable Development

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  1. Tuesday Attending a UN Meeting – Felix Dodds session 5

  2. The Bureau

  3. The members of the CSD • Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia,, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sudan, Thailand, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tunisia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America, Zambia, Zimbabwe

  4. Side events? • The proposed side event should be directly related to the goals and objectives of the Commission on Sustainable Development and should reflect an approach to sustainable development that integrates its economic, social and environmental dimensions. • Every effort should be made to align the proposed event with the main thrust of the agenda of the 15th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development. • Preference will be • given to events that are organized jointly by non-governmental, governmental, and • inter-governmental partners.

  5. What is this partnership stuff? • The CSD Partnerships Fair provides a venue for registered Partnerships for Sustainable Development to showcase progress, launch new partnerships, network with existing and potential partners, create synergies between partnerships and learn from each other's experiences. The Partnerships Fair gives CSD participants an opportunity to gather information on and discuss the important contribution of these innovative initiatives towards supporting the implementation of inter-governmentally agreed sustainable development goals and objectives. • The Partnerships Fair is an official part of the CSD and a summary of its activities will be included in the Report of CSD-15. A detailed account of the Partnerships Fair Activities will also be available on-line through our newest publication the “CSD 15 Partnerships Overview: a summary of Partnerships Fair Activities”

  6. Partnerships • In particular, partnerships working in the areas of the CSD-14/15 thematic cluster - energy for sustainable development; industrial development; air pollution/atmosphere; and climate change are encouraged to participate.

  7. Learning Centre • The Learning Centre which constitutes a series of 3-hour courses focused on the specific themes of the session, as well as on cross-cutting issues. • The CSD-15 themes are: energy for sustainable development, air pollution atmosphere, climate change and industrial development. Courses related to the CSD cross-cutting issues will also be held. In the past, such courses have focused on financing, education, national sustainable development strategies, gender and sustainable development law. • The Learning Centre is intended to at facilitate teaching/training at a practical level on various aspects of sustainable development. Courses are designed to impart useful practical knowledge to enable CSD participants to implement Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and the Mauritius Strategy for Small Island Developing States in their home countries. • Courses are held in parallel to the CSD plenary sessions with the exception of the Opening session and the three days of the high-level segment. Instructors are usually experts from universities and organizations with hands-on expertise.

  8. What not to do Do not go up to a government when they are speaking Do not sit in a government seat – unless you are on that government’s delegation Do not interrupt the meeting Do not target a government in your intervention Do not wear inappropriate clothes

  9. Who is able to speak • Getting access to the floor as an NGO (working through NGO or stakeholder groupings) • It might be possible to take the floor as an individual accredited organisation on some occasions • Have 200 copies of your intervention – give copies to the UN staff for the interpreters and to distribute • Short and to the point

  10. What are brackets and how to understand UN language • Alternative brackets • Contentious brackets • Suspicious brackets • Tactical or trading brackets • Uncertain brackets • Waiting brackets • Weary brackets

  11. Brackets • Who put the bracket in? • When you know who put it forward, ask why. • The ‘why’ may not be clear to other delegations and you can play an important role in highlighting the ‘why’ in your lobbying. • Depending upon the answer to ‘why ’, there may be different actions. These might include:

  12. Strength of terms

  13. Some rooms

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