The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will be held from Monday, 8 July, to Wednesday, 17 July 2024, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. This includes the three-day ministerial segment of the forum from Monday, 15 July, to Wednesday, 17 July 2024as part of the High-level Segment of the Council. The last day of the High-level Segment of ECOSOC will be on Thursday, 18 July 2024.
The theme will be “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions”. (A/DEC/77/553).
As in previous, years, the Global Platform for the Right to the City’s participation at the HLPF is intended to give visibility and raise awareness about local and global struggles for the Right to the City; continue to ensure the inclusion of the Right to the City in international agendas; monitor the implementation of the SDG’s, particularly Goals 11 and 13; and align NUA and SDGs commitments with existing human rights obligations and the different components of the Right to the City.
The Right to the City offers a framework to ground climate-related advocacy and action at territorial level, through a human rights-based approach that prioritizes acknowledging and rectifying the disproportionate impact of environmental degradation on historically marginalized communities. The Right to the City perspective provides both conceptual and concrete tools and pathways to advance climate and socio-territorial justice to support National and Local Governments, as well as non-governmental organizations and social movements in urban peripheries.
Agenda
In order to achieve these goals, the GPR2C will be organizing and co-organizing the following events:
1. The Right to Food, Food Sovereignty, and the Right to the City: Advancing Co-Constructed Policies for Environmental Justice
This event brings together diverse perspectives that address locally embedded human rights strategies for sustainable food systems, contributing to the review of SDG 2 (zero hunger) and 13 (climate action) at the 2024 High Level Political Forum. The Right to the City offers a framework to ground climate related advocacy and action at territorial level, through a human rights-based approach that prioritizes acknowledging and rectifying the disproportionate impact of environmental degradation on historically marginalized communities.
🗓️Tuesday, 9th of July, 8:30h EDT. Check your local time here
Please, register through this registration form.
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2. Using the Right to the city to accelerate prevention of impacts on climate change in urban peripheries
The side event is based on the premise that climate change adverse effects are unevenly distributed among populations living in urban peripheries and precarious settlements, making it imperative to address it as a matter of social justice. It will shed light on the importance of grounding climate action through a Right to the City perspective, by providing both conceptual and concrete tools and pathways to advance climate and socio-territorial justice to support National and Local Governments, as well as non-governmental organizations and social movements in urban peripheries.
Co-organized by CDES Human Rights, the Global Platform for the Right to the City and the Brazilian Cities Ministry under the framework of the 2024 High-Level Political Forum.
🗓️Wednesday, 10th of July, 8:00 am NYC time. Check your local time here.
Please register through this Zoom registration form.
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About the
The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will be held from Monday, 8 July, to Wednesday, 17 July 2024, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. This includes the three-day ministerial segment of the forum from Monday, 15 July, to Wednesday, 17 July 2024as part of the High-level Segment of the Council. The last day of the High-level Segment of ECOSOC will be on Thursday, 18 July 2024.
The theme will be “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions”. (A/DEC/77/553).
The HLPF in 2024, without prejudice to the integrated, indivisible and interlinked nature of the Sustainable Development Goals, will review in-depth: Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere; Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts; Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels; and Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
The HLPF in July 2024 will be the first HLPF under the auspices of ECOSOC after the 2023 SDG Summit – the HLPF convened under the auspices of the General Assembly in September 2023. The 2024 HLPF will support the implementation of the Political Declaration and other outcomes of the SDG Summit for advancing the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.
Following states have expressed interest to carry out voluntary national reviews (VNRs) of their implementation of the 2030 Agenda at the 2024 HLPF: Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belize, Brazil, Chad, Colombia, Congo (Republic of the), Costa Rica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Georgia, Guinea, Honduras, Kenya, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Libya, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Namibia, Nepal, Oman, Palau, Peru, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Other events, including Side Events, VNR Labs, Special Events, and Exhibition will be organized on the margins of the 2024 HLPF.
More information in the official webpage.
