Economic and Social Council

Note: Following is a partial summary of today’s meetings of the Economic and Social Council Operational Activities for Development Segment.  A complete summary will be available on 24 May 2023.

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its 2023 resumed session today, deferring action on conferring special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council to nine entities.  The Committee also rejected, by recorded vote, the application of two organizations for consultative status.

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its 2023 resumed session today, recommending 2 entities for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and deferring action on 93 others. The Committee also rejected, by a recorded vote, the application of five organizations for consultative status.

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its 2023 resumed session today, recommending that the Economic and Social Council grant special consultative status to 12 entities, while postponing consideration of 31 others.

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its 2023 resumed session today, recommending four entities for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and deferring action on 80 others.

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its 2023 resumed session today, recommending 16 entities for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and deferring action on 120 others.

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its resumed 2023 session today, recommending 72 entities for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and deferring action on 76 others.

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations resumed its 2023 session today, recommending 61 entities for special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and deferring action on 44 others.

The United Nations Forum on Forests concluded its eighteenth session today, approving a draft decision that its nineteenth session will be held at United Nations Headquarters from 6 to 10 May 2024 along with the draft provisional agenda for that session, sending both texts to the Economic and Social Council for formal adoption following week-long discussions on topics ranging from the importance of sustainable forest management to the potential offered by wood-based bioenergy.

As the Forum on Forests addressed its preparations for the midterm review on the effectiveness of the international arrangement on forests and the status of its Trust Fund, as well as emerging issues facing forest management, speakers today underlined the need to improve transparency, increase funding and build on the forests-energy-livelihoods nexus.