Pardee Center to Host Event at the United Nations; Three New Publications to be Launched
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Knowledge Network (SDKP) will host a side-event at the 18th meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. The Pardee Center side-event at the CSD will meet from 1.15PM to 2.45PM, in Conference Room C at the United Nations Headquarters Building in New York. The side event, held during the High-Level segment of the CSD, will be titled “Governance for Sustainable Development: Institutional Challenges for 2012.”
The side-even will look at key global governance challenges for sustainable development and will feature: Amb. Carsten Staur, Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations; Amb. Kaire Mbuende, Permanent Representative of Namibia to the United Nations; Dr. Ashok Khosla, President of the World Conservation Union (IUCN); Dr. Tariq Banuri, Director for the UN Division of Sustainable Development; Dr. Tom Bigg, Head of Partnerships for the International Institute for Environment and Development; and Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
During the CSD meeting, and at the event itself, the Pardee Center will release three new publications in its series Sustainable Development Insights, which is edited and published at the Pardee Center in collaboration with SDKP, which is itself a public-private partnership of the United Nations via the UN Division for Sustainable Development. The Pardee Center is the only academic institution in the partnership.
The focus of the discussion will be global governance for sustainable development and will be in the context of the planned Rio+20 Summit of 2012. Governance and institutions is one of the two designated themes for the 2012 Summit (to be held in Brazil) and this panel is a contribution to that discussion. It will be held in advance of the first Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meeting for the Rio+20 Summit which will be held at the UN in New York the following week
The event will also serve as the launch of three new policy papers in teh Pardee Center/SDKP series Sustainable Development Insights. The three new papers, are by Candice Stevents on women and sustainable development (SDI 003), by David Satterthewaite on cities and sustainable development (SDI 004), and by Adil Najam and Mark Halle on accountability as a tool of global governance (SDI 005). This follows on two earlier papers in the series: Alan AtKisson on “pushing reset” on sustainable development (SDI 001) and Miquel Munoz and Adil Najam on setting priorities for Rio+20 (SDI 002).
The Pardee Center had also hosted a side-event seminar at the 17th Meeting of the CSD in 2009.