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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 3 September 2019 3:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> asiapacificrcem <asiapacificrcem@googlegroups.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: {Women_Major_Group} Global Policy Watch UN Monitor: UN General Assembly Week of Summits: Q&A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Subject: {Women_Major_Group} Global Policy Watch UN Monitor: UN General Assembly Week of Summits: Q&A<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">UN Monitor #06</span></strong></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">28 August 2019</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#185776">UN General Assembly Week of Summits: Q&A</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From Barbara Adams, Roberto Bissio, Karen Judd and Elena Marmo</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.globalpolicywatch.org%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2019%2f08%2f20190829-UN-GA-week-of-Summit-06.pdf&c=E,1,ffBaqlaNp3D-5PBVZgLsSqOSU_u8GP6aqmuUuBoFdai2XiMt6hut1OqyyzNiV2ZuG_AnwU1J4RaPO5sgf0E_puNQWctMJmkKBXCdzLPA4A,,&typo=1" target="_blank">Download
UN Monitor #06 (pdf version)</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Over a hundred Heads of State or Government are expected to arrive to New York in the last week of September for a series of back-to-back summit meetings at the opening of the General Assembly of the United
Nations. On top of the usual photo opportunities and a myriad of bilateral meetings between leaders, this High-level week provides an opportunity for multilateral action to shift away from ‘business as usual’ and address some enormous current challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The calendar is certainly crowded: the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/un-climate-summit-2019.shtml" target="_blank">Climate Action Summit</a> and the <a href="https://www.un.org/pga/73/event/universal-health-coverage/" target="_blank">High-level
Meeting on Universal Health Coverage</a> on 23 September, the <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgsummit" target="_blank">Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit</a> on 24-25 September, the <a href="https://www.un.org/esa/ffd/ffddialogue/" target="_blank">High-level
Dialogue on Financing for Development (FfD</a>) on 26 September, and the <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=4181" target="_blank">High-level Midterm Review of the SAMOA Pathway</a> on 27 September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">These multiple events enable world leaders to confront policy gaps, address interlinkages among these issues and design policies and actions in an interconnected way. Similar vested interests that resist regulation
of the corporate sector to protect the largest greenhouse gas emitters also block increased access to affordable medicines and vaccinations. Further, the conversations on financing the SDGs, particularly on ecological and climate issues cannot be divorced
from the programme on Small Island Developing States (SIDS).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The incoming <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgsummit#programme" target="_blank">President of the General Assembly</a>, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria, calls the High-level week a “key opportunity
to demonstrate that multilateralism works”. <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgsummit#programme" target="_blank">Secretary-General (S-G) António Guterres</a> notes that the summits hold the power to affect “transformative change that is fair
and sustainable.” With such emphasis on the potential of the High-level week, civil society organizations (CSOs) are also emphasizing the urgency to address systemic and structural changes across all the meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#961D22">Climate Action Summit</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Climate Action Summit will see the presentation of specific “initiatives” as developed by a series of working groups, each assigned to a different “track.” These tracks include: mitigation strategy, social
and political drivers, youth and mobilization, energy transition, resilience and adaptation, nature-based solutions, infrastructure, cities and local government, climate finance and carbon pricing and industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Closely linked to the issues faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the S-G has requested the Climate Action Summit address systemic issues and promote action needed to slow global warming and both
mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. Central to climate discussions, even when not explicit, are the issues of extraterritorial impacts of national actions and the principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) that point to
larger responsibilities of high-emissions countries both within their borders and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Will the emphasis on accelerating action result in big corporations and large countries reducing their harmful activities or will the conflict with perceived short -term interests prevail?</span><o:p></o:p></em></p>
<p><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Will the largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG) reduce their emissions first, as agreed to in the 2030 Agenda?</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Will priority be placed on climate change mitigation by the major emitters (both public and private) or will Small Island Developing States be burdened further with their need to adapt to survive?</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#961D22">High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC)</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The High-level meeting on UHC will take place on 23 September with opening and closing segments and multi-stakeholder panels. The meeting will adopt a <a href="https://www.un.org/pga/73/2019/08/09/high-level-meeting-on-universal-health-coverage-silence-procedure-broken/" target="_blank">Political
Declaration</a> currently being negotiated, with consensus lacking on issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights. The panels will discuss health as a driver of equity as well as making the case for investment in UHC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">UHC is hindered by systemic inequalities that the mainstream indicators fail to acknowledge. Global health specialist Manjari Mahajan discusses the issue of statistics in her article on <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.12605" target="_blank">“The
IHME in the Shifting Landscape of Global Health Metrics”</a> recently published in the journal <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Global Policy</span></em>, stating that an “emphasis on quantitative metrics has narrowly conceptualized development
and erased complex social and political processes”. Her study examines how the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), a global health statistics institute founded (and primarily funded) by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has operated independently
of the WHO and at times in competition with it in an effort to measure and monitor health information. IHME represents what Mahajan has called “a sidelining of international agencies” and an outsourcing of knowledge production. This in turn creates challenges
in holding private actors accountable and creating regulations to ensure universal health coverage. Topics like this and intellectual property rights are missing from the proposed agenda of the High-level meeting on UHC. Further, the World Bank has been invited
to deliver an opening statement, implicitly placing it at the same level as the WHO in the health field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">What does universal coverage mean and how is it measured—market access or a change to the market itself?</span><o:p></o:p></em></p>
<p><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Where does responsibility for increasing access to public health goods (vaccinations, medicines, healthcare, etc.) lie? Governments or Big Pharma?</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Does the international community turn to private donors—philanthropists and the private sector—to finance vaccinations and medications or will multilateral institutions establish regulations on Big Pharmaceuticals
to reduce costs?</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#961D22">SDG Summit</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The SDG Summit will include several panels discussing mega-trends, the <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/globalsdreport/2019" target="_blank">Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR</a>) and
its entry points and levers, local action to achieve the SDGs, and partnerships for sustainable development. The SDG Summit will also adopt a pre-negotiated <a href="https://www.un.org/pga/73/2019/07/02/political-declaration-of-the-hlpf-silence-procedure-not-broken/" target="_blank">Political
Declaration</a>, outlining the key challenges and commitments to the SDGs. The proposed programme places emphasis on Member States registering “<a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgsummit#acceleration-actions" target="_blank">SDG Acceleration
Actions</a>” prior to the Summit, where such actions “to contribute to a speeded up implementation of the 2030 Agenda” can be presented. However, beyond a presentation of acceleration actions at the Summit in September, it remains unclear whether any mechanisms
exist to measure and assess the actions and their fulfillment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The SDG Business Forum takes place on UN grounds parallel to the SDG Summit’s partnerships dialogue, highlighting the important role given by the UN to the corporate and business sectors. This partnership priority
has been further spelled out by the recently signed agreement (MoU) between the UN and the World Economic Forum (WEF), about which many CSOs have expressed concern. The MoU provides for mutual access to global meetings organized by both parties, and also offers
expanded (and privileged) access for members of the WEF to local UN offices and programmes, furthering private business influence on the sustainable development agenda. In <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.opendemocracy.net%2fen%2foureconomy%2fhow-united-nations-quietly-being-turned-public-private-partnership%2f&c=E,1,vgscPuvGV4Tgh6tPtylAHKMdGbzZfFJEiRp0f-df5jntXida1HJRB7EQ8gA3dC96eUi7psOnCLCIbJ6HbSOoeYIlEMQ-zaA4w_48PYLpjQXacM1C9uE,&typo=1" target="_blank">“How
the United Nations is quietly being turned into a public-private partnership,”</a> global governance specialist Harris Gleckman explores how this could undermine preferential clauses in country procurement regulations that favour locally-owned small and medium
enterprises. Notably, the WEF will be actively involved in the Climate Action Summit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) meets under the General Assembly only once every four years to review progress and implementation of the 2030 Agenda, this year presents a critical opportunity to address
many of the concerns raised annually at the 2019 HLPF under the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Voices amongst CSOs raised important questions regarding corporate capture and impunity of the dominant players, public and private, debt sustainability and
wealth redistribution, and questioned whether or not the HLPF as currently configured is fit for its purpose of overseeing the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">How can the HLPF be reformed to better address global obstacles to the SDGs? Would regional fora be a better place to discuss national reviews among peers, with the global meeting focusing
on cross-border and extraterritorial responsibilities?</span><o:p></o:p></em></p>
<p><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">How can indicators of sustainability--material footprint, depletion of stocks of natural resources, natural ’budgets’ (e.g., emissions budgets) be incorporated into the global statistical framework for measuring
progress on the SDGs?</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Will the SDG Business Forum move beyond congratulating business for stop-gapping the financing gap to establish concrete means to hold the corporate sector accountable to the 2030 Agenda in not only their
financing but also in their practices?</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#961D22">High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The proposed agenda for the dialogue has three interactive sessions, together called “putting public resources to work for more equal and sustainable societies”. These include: 1) combatting illicit financial
flows, 2) financing the SDGs and climate action against rising debt burdens, and 3) moving the money to fill the climate action and SDG financing gap. While the first two panels raise important topics like illicit financial flows and debt burdens, the third
panel has guiding questions that suggest a desire to increase private sector financing of the development agenda, potentially further de-linking the public sector from financing responsibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Across the High-level meetings, the importance of extraterritorial obligations and the need for international cooperation as a means to address them is very clear. Issues of greenhouse gas emissions by donor
countries and the private sector, illicit financial flows, arms sales, corporate and individual tax havens all relate to not only the Financing for Development dialogue, but also to the various meetings taking place during the week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Is the governance trend shifting responsibility from the public sector and outsourcing financing to the private sector?</span><o:p></o:p></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">What has been the impact of leveraging private investment for the SDGS? Have there been significant results? Not only may it sideline the importance of public resources as opposed to private, it may also
be a misuse of them. What are alternative strategies?</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#961D22">High-level Meeting on the implementation of the Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This High-level meeting will take place on Friday, 27 September, the final day of the UNGA week. The event will see two roundtables followed by interactive dialogue, focused on “progress, gaps and challenges”
and “priorities, solutions and the way forward”. The meeting will serve to review the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) priorities on the implementation of the SAMOA Pathway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Throughout the 2019 High-level Political Forum (HLPF) review of SDG 13 on climate change it has become clear that SIDS are being asked to adapt to consequences they are not responsible for—while major emitters
claim the funding doesn’t exist for serious mitigation to take place. Ambassador Courtenay Rattray of Haiti stated that “contrary to the Green Climate Fund’s 50/50 rule, 70 percent (US$ 30 billion) went to adaptation and only 30 percent (US $12 billion) to
mitigation in 2018”. This tension around financing mitigation needs to be addressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#961D22">Parallel and Civil Society Meetings</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In parallel to the five Summits of the High-Level week at UN Headquarters, the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/youth-summit.shtml" target="_blank">Youth Climate Summit</a> will take place on 21
September, the <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.sdgbusinessforum.org%2f&c=E,1,XTFcjri1vvUloGtk41yyUb1OEh8UQ5OsMVu1abqqYenXKiwWEZuFy1ORk86PoyWUj2zqVnEOknFnEMnVlPurcnm0l8EWWMTPG3CdPx7-2zPi17R85qEDlYKW6Cfj&typo=1" target="_blank">SDG
Business Forum</a> on 25 September, the <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fsdgaction.zone%2f&c=E,1,qdtm2Vk14ai7Rwv4B6mGK5ivOHGcP4GU9LNPQ-Ley31_4u81CU6o6ejEabllGD0OhJp3QFb8xwpo0pm2T75e2T2kdEvDkNWt4WA6XrMF63oscM7TwbPObedLPruu&typo=1" target="_blank">SDG
Action Zone</a> on 21-27 September and the recently announced Civil Society SDG Forum on 24 September. Also taking place outside of UN Headquarters are various civil society initiatives including the <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fungaguide.com%2flisting%2fyouth-climate-strike-public-engagement%2f&c=E,1,XI94Xdy9XV41E73GwIPOItlkuVJNyHao51n0DgrfqFrbdLV2LoSxMqdgkZYiNOTHFFmpK0nLB0_a9inv_FveVmt9dAfefdMdn_qo0JNBJHs,&typo=1" target="_blank">Youth
Climate Strike</a> on 17 September, the <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fglobalclimatestrike.net%2f&c=E,1,WZJ2MxCr6qYAzv-mCwxq2ecPhnoq2ray5dCj_Dfy7uuVAcV1GOVRhPExCaPZrMsKz_S0A4Urp-jcenX4aL_lb1OcCIBX75SZ1aIsUJ5n3g1wKwtlYJg,&typo=1" target="_blank">Global
Climate Strike</a> 20-27 September, and the <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fgcap.global%2fpeoples-assembly%2f&c=E,1,B50g9bSibN05s3qmyEo_pzswOtPkIOx5CQiubYQOFSKg_zJFZwX5vp-yn2l4RWkpU8meljIaJv9ZAgttU_zVOIhTOlMyF00flcBZ-_zt9qgs&typo=1" target="_blank">People’s
Assembly</a> 24-25 September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">UN DESA describes the Civil Society SDG Forum as “a dedicated space for stakeholders at the margins of the SDG Summit,” announcing the forum on 22 August, a mere month before the forum is scheduled to take place.
The Civil Society SDG Forum will build on issues raised at the 2019 HLPF, ranging from a debt workout mechanism to tax justice and fundamental paradigms that produce and sustain inequality within and among countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The corporate sector has been accorded considerable space both in the official Summits and the SDG Business Forum and present will be many CEOs that oversee yearly incomes greater than the whole economy of many
UN Member States. CSOs will be monitoring this engagement for concrete commitments to solve the finance gap for sustainable development and abandoning questionable business practices that undermine human rights and sustainability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Youth Climate Summit will take place on Saturday 21 September, and while participation by Member States is neither confirmed nor unconfirmed, the Summit is described as “a platform for young leaders who
are driving climate action to showcase their solutions”. How will the content of presentations at the Youth Climate Summit find its way into the Climate Summit on 23 September? Many youth leaders, notably Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Our Future movement
have spectacularly raised complex and difficult conversations related to climate change in multilateral arenas before, will this continue at the Climate Summit?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#961D22">Looking ahead to September</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The September Summits (UN General Assembly High-level Week) and the global problems to be discussed present an unprecedented opportunity to raise critical cross-cutting issues that necessitate multilateral action.
Across the High-level week, Member States are confronted with opportunities to address the urgency of ecological devastation and of securing all human rights for all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Many assessments in the preparation of High-level week demonstrate that the global community is off-track to achieving the SDGs. UN <a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/dsg/statement/2019-06-14/deputy-secretary-generals-statement-the-informal-plenary-meeting-of-the-general-assembly-brief-member-states-the-scope-and-format-of-the-activities-of-hlpf-under-the" target="_blank">Deputy
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