At the High Level Political Forum in New York, countries around the world reported on progress to achieving sustainable development goals on clean water and sanitation; affordable and clean energy; sustainable cities; responsible consumption and production; and protection of the environment.
My visit had two aims: to draw attention to the central role that environment plays across the Goals, and in particular UN Environment’s role in ensuring that the environmental dimension in all the Goals is well understood and acted on. Second, to launch several new partnerships that could fundamentally impact our progress on these targets.
At the ‘No Planet B: Let’s Protect this one together’, UN Environment launched an exciting new partnership with Google, which combines environmental science, big data and unprecedented accessibility, to expand what the world knows about the impacts of human activity on global ecosystems.
I spoke at the high level event organized by the Partnership for Action of Green Economy and the Government of Germany and about the role of biodiversity in sustaining life on land at a high-level event on biodiversity co-hosted with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity. And finally I spoke at a series of events on chemicals and waste, and private sector leadership in innovating for sustainable development goals.
