SDGs and climate action: Promoting synergies on the ground based on VNRs and NDCs

Background
Documentation

Background

This session will share findings from desk studies focused on providing HLPF/SDG context incl VNRs and how they could help promote synergies with climate action both in adaptation and mitigation including through NDCs at the country level.

Moderator:

Mr. Shantanu Mukherjee, Chief, Integrated Policy Analysis Branch, DESA

Presentation:

Mr. David O’Connor, Sustainable Economist, SDG Delivery Team, WRI
Ms. Leena Srivastava, Vice Chancellor, TERI University

Panel

H.E. Mr. Ian Fry, Ambassador for Climate Change and Environment, Tuvalu
Mr. Carlos Fuller, International and Regional Liaison Officer, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
Ms. Khin Thida Tin, Director, Yangon Regional Environmental Conservation Department, Secretary of Yangon Region Environmental Conservation and Climate Change Supervision Committee, Myanmar
Mr. Zafar Makhmudov, Head, Project Implementation Unit, Committee for Environment Protection, Tajikistan

Biographies

Mr. David O’Connor

Representative to the UN, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Ms. Leena Srivastava

Co-Chair of the Secretary-General’s Science Advisory Group for Climate Summit

Mr. Shantanu Mukherjee

Chief, Policy Analysis Branch, Division for Sustainable Development, UN-DESA

H.E. Mr. Ian Fry

Ambassador for Climate Change and Environment, Tuvalu

Mr. Carlos Fuller

International and Regional Liaison Officer, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

Ms. Khin Thida Tin

Director, Yangon Regional Environmental Conservation Department, Secretary of Yangon Region Environmental Conservation and Climate Change Supervision Committee, Myanmar