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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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Paraguay Member States 22-Apr-2015
Ideas for a work plan for Task 4 Presentations 11-Feb-2015
Ideas for a work plan for Task 5 Presentations 11-Feb-2015
Task 1 –Mapping exercise Presentations 11-Feb-2015
Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, DESA Keynote statements 15-Jan-2015
India Statements 23-Jul-2014
ETC Group Statements 23-Jul-2014
European Union Statements 23-Jul-2014
Japan Statements 23-Jul-2014
Developing Policies for 21st Century Innovation Session 3.1 4-Jun-2014
Dr. Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General, Department of Economic and Social… Session 3.2 4-Jun-2014
Group of 77 and China Session 3.2 4-Jun-2014
United States of America Session 3.2 4-Jun-2014
Professor Carlos Correa, Special Advisor in Trade and Intellectual Property, South… Session 3.1 4-Jun-2014
Japan Session 3.2 4-Jun-2014