Sustainable Development Diary – September 2024 to July 2025

The remainder of 2024 and the first half of 2025 will see three Rio Conventions (COPs) and, of course, the Summit of the Future in September. For those engaged in all of them it will be an exhausting year, but also filled with opportunities to move global sustainability policy forward.

Thanks to Felix Dodds, Fellow at Stakeholder Forum and Adjunct Professor at the Water Institute, University of North Carolina, we have compiled a diary that we hope stakeholders of all kinds find to be useful.

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Sustainable Development Diary – September 2024 to July 2025

With thanks to Felix Dodds, Fellow at Stakeholder Forum and Adjunct Professor at the Water Institute, University of North Carolina

The remainder of 2024 and the first half of 2025 will see three Rio Conventions (COPs) and of course the Summit of the Future in September. For those engaged in all of them it will be an exhausting year, but also filled with opportunities to move global sustainability policy forward.

Thanks to Felix Dodds, Fellow at Stakeholder Forum and Adjunct Professor at the Water Institute, University of North Carolina, we have compiled a diary that we hope stakeholders of all kinds find to be useful.

2024

September

10 – 24^th – 79^th Session of the UN General Assembly, New York, USA

22 – 24^th – Summit of the Future, New York, USA

22 – 29^th – New York Climate Week, New York, USA

25^th – High-level Meeting on Sea-Level Rise

26^th – High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

October

21^st – 1^st – November – Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16), Cali, Colombia

21^st – 25^th – Commonwealth Heads of State, Apia, Tuamasaga, Samoa

25^th – 27^th – World Bank Group meetings, Washington DC, USA

November

4^th – 8^th – World Urban Forum, Cairo, Egypt

5^th – US General Election

11^th – 22^nd – UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29), Baku Azerbaijan

18^th – 19^th – G20 Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

18^th – 21^st – Fifth World Data Forum, Medellin, Colombia

25^th – 1^st December – Plastics Pollution INC 5, Busan Pusan-Jikhalsi, Republic of Korea

December

2^nd – 13^th – UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 

2025

January

1^st – Group of Seven (G7) Presidency – Canada takes over

1^st – G20 Presidency – South Africa takes over

20^th – 24^th–  World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 

February

3^rd – 8th – Third Session of Financing for Development 4 Preparatory Committee, New York

5^th – The UN Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) Partnership Forum, New York

March

11^th – 14^th – Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Global Forum 2024, Barbados

12^th – 13^th – UN Development Cooperation Forum 2025, New York

20^th – 24^th – 20th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome

25^th – 27^th – Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health Cartagena de Indias, Bolivar, Colombia

April

14^th – 25^th – Prep Com 1 of the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), New York

25^th – 27^th – 2025 World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings, Washington, DC

28th – 9^th May – Basel Convention COP17, Rotterdam Convention COP12, and Stockholm Convention COP12, Geneva 

May

5^th – 9^th – 20th session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF 20), New York

7^th – 8^th – UN Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum),  New York

June

2^nd – 6^th (Tentative) – Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on Plastic Pollution Treaty, Ecuador (Tentative)

9^th -13^th – Third UN Ocean Conference, Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote D’Azur, France

30^th – 3^rd July Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), Spain

July

14^th – 24^th – High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), New York