Side Event: Halfway towards 2030 - Russian regions, cities and businesses - accelerating transformations to achieving SDGs in the ECE region
The main objective of the side-event:
- Promote the sharing of best practices, ideas, tools and experiences among a broad range of actors relating to the implementation of sustainable development, including successes, challenges and lessons learned;
- Present plans of Russian regions, businesses and NGOs for the second halfway towards 2030.
Expected outcomes:
- A fruitful discussion on the presented sustainable practices, plans and ways to accelerate development of sustainable projects in Russia and the ECE region.
- Identification of the sustainable activities, realized in Russia, which might be upscaled and replicated in other countries of the region or realized in collaboration.
- Expanding motivation to integrate commercial and sustainable development strategies, achieving public commitments and multi-format partnerships in the interests of the SDGs.
- Analysis of practical tools, initiatives and resources for businesses involved in the implementation of the Agenda 2030.
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Background
The event will focus on the current achievements and lessons learnt from SDGs’ strategies and practices. Within the framework of the event, the participants will consider sustainable practices of Russia, which are implemented in various sectors, at various levels and can be expanded and replicated in the region. Sustainable strategies, partnerships, business projects related to the SDGs 6,7,9,11 and 17 along with the Voluntary local reviews of Russian regions and cities will be presented and discussed. Special attention will be devoted to plans for the second halfway towards 2030.
The event will feature representatives of the Russian Regions (Ministers and members of the Government from Moscow, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Sverdlovsk, Samara regions and others), heads and members of the NGOs, top managers from business, professors from the top Russian Universities, representatives of the UN bodies, representatives of the Russian and other countries embassies and missions. The participants will briefly speak on issues relevant to the Forum and proceed to fruitful discussions based also on the experience accumulated from previous events.
United Nations Association of Russia; UN Global Compact Association Russia
