ENB Update – 16 May 2019 | STI Forum 2019 | Global Platform 2019

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STI Forum 2019
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14-15 May 2019 | UN Headquarters, New York
The fourth annual meeting of the Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—STI Forum 2019—convened under the theme of “STI for ensuring inclusiveness and equality.” The two-day Forum featured a series of 90-second innovation pitches and nine substantive panel discussions. The Forum also examined the way forward for the facilitation of STI for the SDGs, with calls for, inter alia, greater science-business connections to drive implementation, more resources and funding, operationalization of an online inventory of STI, and making the STI Forum a culmination of intersessional work. The outcomes of the STI Forum 2019 will be summarized by its Co-Chairs and serve as inputs to the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in July 2019.
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Global Platform 2019
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Thursday, 16 May 2019 | Geneva, Switzerland
iisDiscussions on DRR and resilience continued at the 2019 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2019) in Geneva, Switzerland. Sessions on risk-informed investments suggested that disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures such as promoting energy efficiency, building resilient infrastructure, and addressing conflict and security threats make good business sense, while sessions on health and disaster-induced displacement focused attention on the human cost of disasters.
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