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Technology, science and capacity building are major pillars of the Means of Implementation of the Post-2015 Agenda and of the Rio+20 follow-up processes. The research, development, deployment, and widespread diffusion of environmentally sound technologies in the context of a Green Economy is also closely linked to other core elements and means of implementation, including innovation, business opportunities and development, trade of environmental goods and services, finance and investment, and institutional capabilities.

In order to eradicate poverty and reorient current unsustainable development trajectories over the period 2015 to 2030, affordable technological solutions have to be developed and disseminated widely in the next fifteen years. The Means of Implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda could nevertheless provide an opportunity to address some of the gaps hindering the facilitation and transfer of these technologies.

In 2012, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (“Rio+20”) called for identifying technology facilitation mechanism. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda, in its paragraph 123, decided to establish a technology facilitation mechanism. The mechanism will be launched at the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda in order to support the sustainable development goals.

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Dr. Michiharu Nakamura, Senior Advisor (Former President), Japan Science and Technology… Session 6 1-Mar-2019
Ms. Monika Matusiak, Diretorate General Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission… Session 6 1-Mar-2019
Mr. Dietrich Van der Weken, General Manager, Global Sustainable Technology and… Session 6 1-Mar-2019
Dr. Anthony C. Sales, Regional Director, Department of Science and Technology (DOST… Session 7 1-Mar-2019
Mr. Wei Liu, Coordinator, UN Inter-agency Task Team on Science, Technology and… Session 6 1-Mar-2019
Dr. Gong Ke, President Elect, World Federation of Engineering Organization; President… Session 5 28-Feb-2019
Mr. Chiung Song, Division of Global Innovation Strategy of the Science and Technology Policy… Session 4 28-Feb-2019
Ms. Minnie Degawan, Indigenous and traditional peoples programme, Conservation International,… Session 3 28-Feb-2019
Prof. Tateo Arimoto, Professor of GRIPS and Principal Fellow of the Japan Science and… Session 5 28-Feb-2019
Ms. Arisa Ema, Project Assistant Professor, Policy Alternatives Research Institute, The… Session 4 28-Feb-2019
Dr. Gong Ke, President Elect, World Federation of Engineering Organization; President… Session 4 28-Feb-2019
Dr. Anamika Dey, Honey Bee Network, India Session 3 28-Feb-2019
Mr. Yuan Guangxia, on behalf of Mr. Wang Ruijun, Head of Guangdong Science and… Session 2c 27-Feb-2019
Mr. Edward Lorenz, Professor, Universite Cote d’Azur, France Session 2c 27-Feb-2019
Dr. Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis, Manager Pulse Lab Kampala (UN Global Pulse) Session 2b 27-Feb-2019