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UN General Assembly, climate summit & SDGs summit

17 September 2019 - 25 September 2019

All 193 Member States of the Organization are represented in the General Assembly – one of the six main organs of the UN – to discuss and work together on a wide array of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations, such as development, peace and security, international law, etc. Every year in September, all the Members meet in this unique forum at Headquarters in New York for the General Assembly session, this is the 74th session. We will be in New York for UNGA, the climate & SDGs summit together with two of the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award winners from 2018, Trupti Jain and Dorothée Lisenga.

Climate summit

21 23 September, UN Headquarters 

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the Climate Action Summit in late 2018, aware that global efforts to tackle climate change are running off-track – a fact underlined by the dire warnings in the IPCC 1.5°C report. He said he wanted a summit where leaders would only get to speak if they have plans in line with 1.5°C. It’s not the same as the annual COP: this will still take place in 2019, in Chile (COP25). Learn more about the climate summit.

SDGs summit

24 25 September, UN Headquarters 

Heads of State and Government will gather to follow up and comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The event is the first UN summit on the SDGs since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in September 2015. Learn more about the SDGs summit.

 

Timeline, including civil society events

2 – 6 September: Asia-Pacific Climate Week, Bangkok, Thailand

4 September: US general debate on climate, in NYC (at Colombia Uni maybe)

17 September: Opening of UNGA regular session 

18-19 September: people’s summit on climate rights and human survival 

20 September: Global Climate Strike: strikes in 150 countries registered, register your strike here.

20 – 27 September: Global Week of Action

21 September: Youth Climate Summit

21 – 25 September: Community Corner 

22 September: Costa Rica will showcase the importance of gender commitments of climate summit by having stories shared inside UNHQ

22 September: Feminists solutions to end climate chaos event by Women & Gender Constituency

22 September: climate resilience event, inside UNHQ

22 – 25 September: NatureHub – co-convened by Nature4Climate and UNDP.

23 September: Universal health coverage meeting

23 September United Nations Climate Summit 2019, New York City

23 – 27 September: Action Zone – The UN Sec Gen office is setting up a large tent in the Rose Garden of the UN Compound for programs. 

23 – 29 September: Climate Week NYC, United States – The Climate Group, an international nonprofit, runs Climate Week NYC each year in coordination with the United Nations and the City of New York, and this year it will run in parallel with the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit. 

24 September: Opening of the UNGA 

24 September: Launch of a feminist green new deal event

24 – 25 September: UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)

24 – 25 September: People’s Assembly (CCUN, NYC)

25 September: Global Alliance for the Future of Food event – one-day event will focus on climate and the global food system.

26 September: High-Level Dialogue on FFD

27 September: High-Level Review of SAMOA Pathway

Details

Start:
17 September 2019
End:
25 September 2019
Website:
https://www.un.org/en/ga/

Organiser

United Nations

Venue

United Nations Head Quarters
New York, NY 10017 United States + Google Map
Website:
https://visit.un.org/
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