Breakout session | Stage 2
Host: Parliamentarians for the Global Goals
This session acts as the official launch event for ‘Parliamentarians for the Global Goals’ (PfGG), which is a new initiative for and by parliamentarians who work on SDG implementation. Parliamentarians play a crucial role in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda: As legislators, holding governments accountable, as representatives and as the link between the multilateral/regional spheres and the people. Unfortunately, the number of parliaments actively engaged in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda is still limited. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), only 14 % of parliaments around the world are actively working with the 2030 Agenda. The UN has launched the ‘Decade of Action’ to intensify the efforts to achieve the SDGs. This will only succeed if parliaments are actively involved. Parliamentarians for the Global Goals will act as an umbrella organization for national parliamentary SDG groups/committees and individual parliamentarians with the purpose of strengthening peer-to-peer learning and sharing of best practices on parliamentary work on the 2030 Agenda, increasing knowledge sharing and awareness raising among parliamentarians, building and supporting national all-party parliamentary groups, and sharing and supporting policy and campaign initiatives to accelerate action. The aim is to inspire and empower more parliamentarians to push for the most ambitious implementation of the 2030 Agenda, to allocate budget resources and promote legislation that accelerates SDG action on a national, regional and global level.
Speakers
Thure Krarup - Moderator Executive Director for Sustainable Development Initiatives, UNF Thure Krarup is Executive Director for Sustainable Development Initiatives and is heading UN Foundation’s work on the broader SDG agenda. Prior to joining UNF, Thure was working in the Climate Team in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General. Kirsten Brosbøl Founder, Parliamentarians for the Global Goals Gabriela Cuevas Barron President, IPU, senator, Mexico President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Member of Parliament at the Mexican Congress. Active in politics since she was 15 years old, Gabriela Cuevas was elected Federal Member of Parliament for the first time at age 21. In 2017, she became the youngest and the second woman to become President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Kanni Wignaraja UNDP, Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific Kanni Wignaraja is Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She brings over twenty-five years of experience of the United Nations mission and UNDP’s role in the sustainable development agenda. Ms. Wignaraja recently served as the Acting Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Management Services, UNDP and as Special Adviser to the UNDP Administrator, roles that she has performed throughout 2019, after working as the Director of the United Nations Development Operations Coordination Office (DOCO) from 2014 to 2018. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration (Development Economics) from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from Bryn Mawr College, USA. Trisha Shetty Founder, SheSays Lukas Köhler MP, German Bundestag Dr. Köhler has been a Member of the German Bundestag since 2017 and spokesman for climate change of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag. He is chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid, as well as a full member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development. Niels Fuglsang MP, European Parliament Niels Fuglsang was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. As part of the parliamentary group Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, he has since been serving on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the parliament's delegation for relations with China. |
Accountability, Government, Multilateralism, Partnerships
| Host: Parliamentarians for the Global Goals |, Gabriela Cuevas Barron (IPU), Kanni Wignaraja (UNDP), Kirsten Brosbøl (Parliamentarians for the Global Goals), Lukas Köhler (MP German Bundestag), Niels Fuglsang (MP European Parliament), Thure Krarup (UNF), Trisha Shetty (SheSAys)
