Sustainable Development Diary September 2024- July 2025



September

10-24th: 79th Session of the UN General Assembly, New York, USA

22-24th Summit of the Future, New York, USA

22-29th New York Climate Week, New York, USA

25th  High-level Meeting on Sea-Level Rise

26  High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

October

21st – 1st November: Convention on Biological Diversity, Colombia

21st-25th Commonwealth Heads of State, Apia, Tuamasaga, Samoa

25-27th World Bank Group meetings, Washington DC, USA

November

4-8th World Urban Forum, Cairo, Egypt

5th US Election

11-22nd UN Climate Change Conference COP29, Baku Azerbaijan

18-19th G20 Summit, Rio, Brazil

18-21st Fifth World Data Forum, Medellin, Colombia

25th – 1st December: Plastics Pollution INC 5, Busan Pusan-Jikhalsi, Republic of Korea

December

2-13th UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 


January 2025

1st G7 Presidency - Canada takes over

1st G20 Presidency - South Africa takes over

20-24th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 

February 2025

3-8th Third Session of Financing for Development 4 Preparatory Committee, New York

5th  The UN Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) Partnership Forum , New York

March 2025

11-14th Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Global Forum 2024, Bardados 

12-13th UN Development Cooperation Forum 2025, New York

20-24th 20th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome

25-27th Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health Cartagena de Indias, Bolivar, Colombia

April  2025

14-25 Prep Com 1 of the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) , New York

25-27th 2025 World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings. Washington DC

28th to 9th May Basel Convention COP17, Rotterdam Convention COP12, and Stockholm Convention COP12, Geneva 

May 2025

5-9th 20th session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF 20), New York

7-8th UN Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum)  New York

June 2025

2-6th Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on Plastic Pollution Treaty

9-13th Third UN Ocean Conference, Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote D'Azur, France

30th to 3rd July Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), Spain

July 2025

14th-24th High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) New York



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