Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Guest blog by Jeffery Huffines, Senior Advisor for the Coalition for the UN We Need   1)     Civil Society meetings: The UN High-Level Week was preceded by the SDG Action Weekend, convened by the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, with a focus on SDG Mobilization Day on 16 September and SDG Acceleration Day on 17 September. Among the highlights of the SDG Mobilization Day was the unveiling of the  Open Letter signed by 53 former Presidents, Heads of Government, and UN leaders calling on current world leaders to build on the outcomes from this year’s SDG Summit and utilize the 2024 UN Summit of the Future to strengthen the United Nations system. The Open Letter was announced during the side event hosted by Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN), UN Department of Global Communications and partners to discuss ' From the SDG Summit to the Summit of the Future: Building the UN We Need '. Watch the recording that was broadcast on UN WebTV here   (Ple...

  Guest blog: by the Coalition for the UN We Need  Prolonged discussions on Scope and Elements for the Summit of the Future Discussions on the Scope and Elements of the Summit of the Future, under the leadership of Co-Facilitators, H.E Ms. Antje Leendertse, Permanent Representative of Germany, and H.E Mr. Neville Melvin Gertze, Permanent Representative of Namibia, continued last week with informal consultations July 19 and the morning of July 20, immediately followed by “informal Informal's” (i.e. negotiations closed to observers).   The proposed structure for the Scope and Elements of the Summit of the Future and the Pact for the Future includes an overarching chapeau and four individual chapters. The four proposed chapters are to include elements on “Sustainable Development and Financing;” “Peace and Security;” “Global Digital Cooperation;” and “Transforming Global Governance.”  At this stage, Member States have provided numerous comments on a Zero Draft that ...