HLPF Weekly Update 3 - Wednesday, 27 May

Appologies for the delay in posting

There were no new updates to this weekly email but please take note of the processes marked with [final call].

HLPF Format

Download the [2020 HLPF Programme] from the 'Latest' column of the HLPF 2020 website. 

It is likely that the 2020 HLPF will be virtual.

Funding.

Due to the likely virtual format of the 2020 HLPF, there will not be any funding available to bring participants to New York this year.

Registration

The HLPF meeting will have registered participants who will be able to attend the virtual meetings. Others will be able to follow the meeting through UN Web TV (http://webtv.un.org/) or YouTube. Further details will be shared soon.

New Stakeholders Webpage

The weekly updates will be added to the new HLPF 2020 Stakeholders page here: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2020#stakeholders

Ministerial Declaration

All documentation can be found in the Library section of the Stakeholders, 2020 HLPF website. This includes the Draft Outline – Structure of the HLPF Ministerial Declaration 2020. Three meetings of informal consultations will take place on the dates below.

• Monday, 8 June 2020
• Tuesday, 16 June 2020
• Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Lead Discussants - Official Thematic Sessions

UN DESA will be requesting 11 Lead Discussants from the Major Groups and other Stakeholders to participate in the official thematic sessions of the 2020 HLPF.

Each of the Major Groups and Stakeholder Groups (MGoS) will conduct its own process to nominate Lead Discussants. These nominations will then be reviewed by the Steering Group of the MGoS Coordination Mechanism. A slate of nominations will be submitted by the Steering Group to ECOSOC for review. Please do not contact UN DESA directly to submit a nomination, await instruction from your Major Group and/or Stakeholder Group about its own nomination process.

The deadline to submit the slate of nominations to ECOSOC will be on Monday, 22 June at 12pm (New York time). Please note that the deadlines for the MGoS' own nomination processes will conclude much earlier than the date above and may differ between each Group.

Stakeholder Perspective - Official Thematic Session

The MGoS Official Session is listed in the 2020 HLPF Programme on Tuesday, 7 July 2020 from 5 - 6pm (New York time). The title of the session is: Transformative pathways to realize the 2030 Agenda: a whole of society approach taking into account the impact of COVID19 (Stakeholder perspective). UN DESA will be working with the MGoS Coordination Mechanism Steering Group to organise the session. You will be able to view the session on UN Web TV (http://webtv.un.org/) or YouTube.

Reports

• Executive Summaries

The deadline for the executive summaries of the MGoS Sectoral Position Papers has passed. An advance unedited version of the compilation of the executive summaries of the position papers on the theme of the HLPF, submitted by MGoS, can be found here: E/HLPF/2020/2

• Sectoral Position Papers [final call]

The deadline for the MGoS Sectoral Position Papers (in full) is Friday, 29 May. Please contact your Major Group and/ or Stakeholder Group to find out about the process for contributions.

• Paragraph 89 Reports

The (soft) deadline for MGoS Paragraph 89 reports will be Monday, 1 June. Please submit reports to: bekelee@un.org. Receiving reports before the deadline will ensure that there is time for them to be reviewed and posted as inputs on the Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform

Official Side Events & Exhibitions [final call]

All Side-events and Exhibitions will be held virtually. The application process for both will be open until Friday, 29 May. Further information can be found under ‘Other Events’ on the HLPF 2020 website: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2020#other

 Library

There are no updates to the ‘Library’ section on the ‘Stakeholders’ page of the HLPF 2020 website this week.