Asia Pacific Forum of Ministers and Authorities of Environment | 3rd to 6th October, 2023 • UNEP organizes Regional Forum in all the 6 regions of the UN before each UNEA. This time UNEA is being organized during 26th February to 1st March 2024 at UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. In the Asia Pacific region, it was organized as titled “5th Forum of Ministers and Authorities of Environment in Asia Pacific.’ It was organized in collaboration with the Govt of Sri Lanka at Shangri-La Colombo on 4th and 5th October. The objective of the Regional Forum is to provide to input regional priorities for the UNEA. More than 50 CSOs belonging to the Major Groups and Sri Lanka’s CSO participated in the Forum. Ajay K Jha, Regional Facilitator (Asia Pacific)…
Ajay K Jha was the Focal point of the APRCEM during the SDG Summit. He was invited to speak in the SDG Summit (Leader Dialogue 5) on the 18th September representing Asia Pacific Regional CSOs Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM) and CECOEDECON. He was also invited to speak in the MGOS Coordination Mechanism (MGOS CM) side event titled “Breaking the barriers and Leaning no one behind” on the 16th September. SDG Summit SDG Summit Leaders Dialogue 5 (19th September) was entitled “Unity and Solidarity; Strengthening the Multilateral system for enhanced support, cooperation, follow up and review.” The dialogue was moderated by the President of Mozambique and the Prime Minister of Iceland. Ajay K Jha was the only CSO speaker in the event. Around 20 Heads of the Government (Prime Minister)…
Jaipur. PAIRVI was invited to provide an update on global regional and national developments on climate change and sustainable development issues. The meeting was organized by CECOEDECON on the occasion of its Annual day, where more than 150 farmers, women farmers (federations), partners and other stakeholders were invited. Ajay K Jha represented PAIRVI and apprised the audience of the state of affairs on climate change (urgency and scale) and the sustainable development goals (covid 19 pandemic set back). The emphasis of his presentation was that there is a very small window of opportunity available now if the global rise in temperature by the end of the century has to be kept below 1.5 degrees Celsius. It requires that global carbon emission must peak by 2030, emissions must be halved by…
Raipur, 19th to 21st Sept; More than 50 organizations and networks attended the SDG training organized by the CSODE network India. Ajay K Jha was the principal trainer for the workshop. Dehradun, 8th to 10th Dec; A workshop was organized for Uttarakhand partners by Mount Valley Development Association. The workshop, along with other dimensions of sustainable development also focused on climate change and risk assessment, and how to align local projects with the SDGs.
Pre-COP 27 Podcast series: A four-episode podcast series was released before COP 27 with a focus on the history of the conference of parties (COP) and expectations from COP 27. The language of the podcast series is Hindi but the episode 'expectation from the COP 27' is available in English also. Episode 1: Brief History of COP (Part-I) (Hindi) Episode 2: Brief History of COP (Part-II) (Hindi) Episode 3: Expectation from COP 27 (Hindi) Episode 4: Expectation from COP 27 (English) COP 27 Preparation Call, online, 12th Sept; The preparatory meeting was organized to finalize logistics and fine-tune preparation towards the COP 27 and COP side events. The meeting was attended by PAIRVI, CECOEDECON and other participants in the COP 27. Peoples Assembly, online, 21st Sept: In parallel with the…
Manila, 28th to 30th November; Ajay K Jha was invited to participate in the Global Sustainable Development Report Regional Consultation for Asia Pacific organized by UNDESA and the Govt of Philippines. Ajay K Jha contributed by giving remarks on energy security and climate action. Inputs to the GSDR 2023 Regional (Asia Pacific) Consultation by Ajay K Jha CECOEDECON/PAIRVI India | MGOS Coordination Mechanism on the SDGs Broad overarching concerns Local Vs Global; While it may be good to draw lessons from what works locally; it should not undermine the fact that that many of the problems that we are talking about (climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, lack of sustainable development etc.) are global challenges and can only be dealt with globally. No amount of local solution will be appropriate to deal…
ESCAP SSWA organized South Asia Forum on the SDGs on 5th to 7th Dec at Islamabad. APRCEM South Asia decided to boycott participation in the South Asia Forum as ESCAP SSWA was supporting only one participant for the Forum. However, APRCEM South Asia decided to hold the Peoples Forum on 15th & 16th November 2022. A prep meeting was held for planning towards the South Asia Peoples Forum on 10th October.
Online: A review of the HLPF 2022 was organized by ADA wherein more than 50 organizations participated from various regions. Ajay K Jha provided a comprehensive review of the HLPF 2022. He also provided key inputs in the Review of the HLPF 2022 organized by the APRCEM on 2nd September. HLPF2022_whither the Promise of the Agenda 2030 Asia Pacific Perspective on the Sustainable Development for HLPF 2022
Ajay K Jha was invited as a resource person for the training of Apex Institutions by CECOEDECON at Shilki Dungri, Chaksu Block. The training was attended by more than 70 heads of the CBOs from 5 blocks Chaksu, Phagi, Malpura, Niwai and Shahbad, majority of them being farmers from the Kisan Seva Samiti. Ajay K Jha had a detailed session on the sustainable Development Goals and its progress in Rajasthan and what local communities can do. The presentation was divided into following parts; (i) What is sustainable development (included traditional definition of development, as well more broad definition including dimensions of (i) sustenance, (ii) freedom from servitude and (iii)self esteem (ii) What are SDGs (including transition and difference from the MDGs, Sustainable development goals, why SDGs and what is the…
19th to 21st July, Kathmandu. Ajay K Jha was lead facilitator in the workshop. More than 25 CSOs from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal participated in the training workshop. Key note address by Ajay K Jha.
