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Advancing sustainable development governance and implementation at the national level

2014-05-28T11:29:49+00:00

Stakeholder Forum, as administrators of the Global Network of National Councils for Sustainable Development and Similar Bodies (GN-NCSDs), recently co-organised a series of SDplanNet regional workshops in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. The workshops brought together national-level sustainable development practitioners to helping to identify capacity building gaps for planning, implementation and monitoring processes, and consolidating regional communities of practice.

Expert Group Meeting Emphasises the need to link HLPF to NCSDs

2014-05-12T11:02:20+00:00

On the 30 April-1 May, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) held a meeting on agenda setting for the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) at UN Headquarters in New York. The purpose of the expert group meeting (EGM) was to provide room for discussion on how the HLPF could best achieve effective agenda-setting for sustainable development in the context of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The session involved panel discussions, discussions with experts and keynote presentations.

First AGM of the Global Network takes place in Korea

2014-05-06T16:42:59+00:00

The first Annual General Meeting of the Global Network of National Councils for Sustainable Development and Similar Bodies took place on the Wednesday 9th April, in Incheon, Republic of Korea, during the UN Office for Sustainable Development’s 2014 Sustainable Development Transition Forum.

Regional sustainable development planning workshops

2014-03-18T15:19:14+00:00

Stakeholder Forum together with SDplanNet, which is sponsored in its current phase by GIZ on behalf of BMZ, is convening a series of three sustainable development regional workshops in Asia & Pacific, Latin America & the Caribbean and Africa designed to articulate an innovative set of practices for transformative strategy-making, planning and implementation at the national and sub-national levels.

German Council for Sustainable Development evaluates the Peer Review on Germany's Sustainable Development Policies

2013-11-26T16:00:42+00:00

After having subjected the Peer Review report 'Sustainability – Made in Germany' to close scrutiny, the German Council for Sustainable Development has issued an opinion in which it concludes that the report represents a strong plea for a new start in sustainability policy.

German Council for Sustainable Development delivers its report “Sustainability - Made in Germany. The Second Review”

2013-09-30T10:37:38+00:00

At the outset of the new legislative period, the German Council for Sustainable Development has released its second peer review on Germany’s sustainable development policies summarising what has been achieved so far and advancing recommendations for the future integration of sustainability into all sectors of German government, business and society.

National Climate Change Legislation - the key to high international ambition

2013-08-27T09:24:13+00:00

GLOBE International and the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) have published a paper examining the linkage between domestic legislation on climate change and countries' positions at the international negotiations in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. One of its main findings being that national legislation does not merely underpin international agreements but can, in fact, work as their main enabler, the paper advances specific recommendations for governments to increase the level of ambition of international negotiations.

German Council for Sustainable Development Reappointed

2013-07-22T11:40:02+00:00

On 26 June 2013 the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) was reappointed by the German government, seeing the selection of several new members and the reappointment of a number of existing members.

The Council was first appointed in 2001 and last reappointed in 2010. It advises the German government in matters of implementing and further developing its National Sustainability Strategy. The Council can also make suggestions and put its own topics on the agenda. It carries the issue of "sustainability" into society and the public sphere.

High Level Panel report emphasises the need to unify global goals with national plans for sustainable development

2013-06-03T18:42:54+00:00

The UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post-2015 has recently launched its report entitled ‘A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development’. The report states that a universal post-2015 agenda should be driven by several transformative shifts, including ‘putting sustainable development at the core’, and provides an example of how new goals and measurable targets could be framed in the wake of these transformative shifts.

Global Network engagement with NCSDs both within and outside Europe

2013-05-16T11:11:29+00:00

Stakeholder Forum, as the administrators of the Global Network of National Councils for Sustainable Development (NCSDs), will be in attendance at the European Environmental and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC) Working Group on Sustainable Development meeting in Berlin, Germany on the 23-24 May. Stakeholder Forum President Derek Osborn and Project Officer Jack Cornforth will be presenting on the Global Network to the numerous NCSD representatives from across Europe in attendance, with a view to engaging them in the activities planned to further develop the Global Network, including the potential engagement of Councils with the UN process on sustainable development goals (SDGs).