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Sustainable Development and High Seas Fisheries

This article examines the role of the concept of sustainable development in the legal regime governing the exploitation of the natural resources of the oceans, particularly fisheries on the high seas.
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Issue 1: Development cooperation in the light of sustainable development and the SDGs: Preliminary e

The purpose of this paper is to explore the nexus between the sustainable development agenda -- from the Earth Summit in 1992 to Rio+20 in 2012 -- and development cooperation. It explores the evolutio
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Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2019

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Youth as Partners in Sustainable Small Island Development

Youth as Partners in Sustainable Small Island Development “Being young does not mean we are insignificant” Leaders, today you stand again to discuss the major issues affecting our island homes in sear
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Contribution of Sustainable Transport to the Post 2015 Development Agenda

Organized By • United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs • Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport On 25 January 2012 the Secretary-General announced a Five Year Action Agen
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Leaders Dialogue 5: Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Co-Moderators: H.E. Ms. Sahle-Work Zewde, President of Ethiopia Speakers: SEYCHELLES (Head of State) GEORGIA (Head of State) REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA (Head of State) ROMANIA (Head of State) CZECH REPUBL
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WOLMI/CALL Foundation for Environment & Sustainable Development

STATEMENT TO THE PREP COMMITTEE OF THE UN CONFERENCE ON OCEANS Distinguished Co-facilitators, Your Excellencies, delegates, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I would like to make a Statement on beh
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Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report - Executive Summary

The Rio+20 outcome document (paragraph 85k) calls for a Global Sustainable Development Report, in order to bring together dispersed information and existing assessments and to strengthen the science p
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Brazil: A Country Profile on Sustainable Energy Development

This publication is the product of an international project led by the IAEA to develop an approach suitable for the comprehensive assessment of national energy systems within a sustainable development
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Workshop on Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development Planning and Implementation

Since the Rio Summit of 1992, Integrated planning for, and implementation of, national sustainable development strategies have remained challenging. Member States noted this challenge by recognising i
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2017 Sustainable Development Transition Forum (SDTF)

The 2017 SDTF was convened from 30 October - 1 November 2017 in Incheon, Republic of Korea.
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18th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development

It is a pleasure to join His Excellency, Dr. Luis Alberto Ferraté Felice, in welcoming you to this important session of the Commission on Sustainable Development. The Commission turns its focus in t
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Toward UN Sustainable Development Goals

UN Sustainable Development Goals Oceans & Seas, Biodiversity and Forests Keynote February 3, 2014 United Nations, New York Jane Lubchenco Valley Chair in Marine Biology Oregon State University Lu
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ECA Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (RFSD)

The ninth session of the ECA Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD-9) will deliberate on statutory and programmatic matters related to the ECA subprogramme on innovations, technologies and the man
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Global Sustainable Development Report 2014 (GSDR 2014)

The Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report illustrates a range of potential content, alternative approaches, and various ways of participation, in order to support Member States' deliberation
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Mainstreaming Sustainable Development Goals into Higher Education Institutions in Small Island Devel

In support of the SAMOA Pathway mid-term review, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), has organized regional partnership dialogues in the margins of the regional SAM
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Exploring Sustainable Development: A Multiple-Perspective Approach

The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) signalled a new purpose for education. This purpose, articulated in the Bonn Declaration, is that “education should be of a qu
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Expert Group Meeting on Science and Sustainable Development Goals

One of the main outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, was the agreement by Member States to launch a process to develop a

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How to build sustainable development goals: integrating human development and environmental sustain

Combining human development and environmental objectives is firmly on the agenda for a new set of global priorities after 2015. The High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons endorsed this approach in the Mo
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Report of the 2018 Sustainable Development Transit

Sustainable Development Transition Forum outcome: Incheon Communique” by “Report of the 2018 Sustainable Development Forum - Accelerating Progress towards the SDGs: Enhancing the Role of the High-leve
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Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Development Goal 17

Sustainable Development Goal 17 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, "Strengthen the means of implementation (MoIs) and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development" seeks

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The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative discusses integrating the Sustainable Development Goa

New York, 1 June 2022— The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) hosted the second of a series of three webinars organized in the lead-up to the HESI+10 Global Forum which will highlight t
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Sustainable Development Innovation Briefs: Issue 8

Foreign land purchases for agriculture: what impact on sustainable development? Private investors and governments have recently stepped up foreign investment in farmlandin the form of purchases or lo
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Linking Sustainable Development Goal 6 and Sustainable Development Goal 10

Brown Bag Lunch Sustainable Development Goal 6 calls for water and sanitation for all by 2030. By definition, this means leaving no one behind. But today, billions of people are still living without s
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Presentation of a Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report

Moderated Dialogue “How to improve the conversation between science and policy: scope and methodology of a global sustainable development report” • What lessons can be learned from the key findings
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The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024

The annual report reviews progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development utilizing the latest available data and estimates assessing progress on each Goal and its associated targets. The repo
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Voluntary Commitments for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14

The high-level United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable developmen
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High Level Event on Urban resilience and Sustainable urban development in Small Island Developing S

Organized by Maldives (Chair of AOSIS), UN-DESA, UN-OHRLLS, and UN-Habitat Background
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Kaveh Zahedi, Deputy Executive Secretary for Sustainable Development, UNESCAP

Developing Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals in support of the reviews of the High-level Political Forum - Asia and Pacific 28 November 2016, Meeting Room F of the United Nations Conf
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Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Development Goal 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), the United Nations’ central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainabl