Report of the Arab High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development, Amman, 2-4 April 2014

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and its partners, namely the League of Arab States, the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, organized the Arab High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development, held in Amman from 2 to 4 April 2014, in cooperation with the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the Ministry of Environment of Jordan. The Arab Forum served as a regional preparatory meeting for the second session of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, to be held in New York, in July 2014. The Arab Forum also included a session focusing on the regional preparations for the 2014 Annual Ministerial Review on the theme “Addressing on-going and emerging challenges for meeting the Millennium Development Goals in 2015 and for sustaining development gains in the future”.