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Environmental issues and sustainable development


ENV/DEV/1344
ISTANBUL, 5 April— Recognizing that healthy forests support a broad range of economic development activities, all 197 Member and observer States of the United Nations Forum on Forests will meet in Istanbul, Turkey, from 8 to 19 April, for the tenth session of the Forum to consider a range of measures to improve sustainable forest management.
ENV/DEV/1340
Member States have completed a first round of discussions aimed at articulating a set of new set of sustainable development goals that will shape the United Nations development agenda. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a two-day inaugural meeting of the new General Assembly working group tasked with proposing new universal sustainable development goals that should build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals while inspiring and galvanizing action.
ENV/DEV/1300
RIO DE JANEIRO, 21 June — Inequality — in both environmental and economic terms – took centre stage as the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development entered its second day, with many high-level participants emphasizing that a disproportionate share of the world’s woes still fell upon its poorest, smallest and least represented States.
ENV/DEV/1312
RIO DE JANEIRO, 22 June — Away from the podium and the media spotlight, Heads of State and Government, as well as ministers, United Nations system officials, representatives of major groups and other international actors held a series of round tables in parallel with the plenary, during which they discussed the main themes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development — Rio+20 — and the draft outcome document to be formally adopted today, 22 June.