Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee)

Documentation for the 74th session

 

♦  ITEM 16:   Information and communications technologies for sustainable development

♦  ITEM 17:   Macroeconomic policy questions:

(a)   International trade and development

(b)   International financial system and development

(c)   External debt sustainability and development

(d)  Commodities

(e)  Financial inclusion for sustainable development

No advance documentation

(f)  Promotion of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows and strengthen good practices on assets return to foster sustainable development

No advance documentation

♦  ITEM 18:  Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development

♦  ITEM 19:   Sustainable development:

(a)   Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development and of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

(b)   Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

(c)   Disaster risk reduction

(d)   Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind

(e)   Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

(f)   Convention on Biological Diversity

(g)  Report of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme

(h)   Education for sustainable development

(i)   Harmony with Nature

(j)   Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

(k)   Combating sand and dust storms

(l)   Sustainable mountain development

♦  ITEM 20:   Globalization and interdependence

(a)   Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence

(b)   Science, technology and innovation for sustainable development

(c)   Culture and sustainable development

(d)   Development cooperation with middle-income countries

♦  ITEM 21:   Groups of countries in special situations:

    (a)   Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

    (b)   Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries

♦  ITEM 22:   Eradication of poverty and other development issues:

(a)  Implementation of the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018-2027)

(b)  Women in development

(c)   Human resources development

(d)  Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

♦  ITEM 23:   Operational activities for development:

    (a)   Operational activities for development of the United Nations system

(b)   South-South cooperation for development

♦  ITEM 24:   Agriculture development, food security and nutrition

♦  ITEM 60:   Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources

♦  Item 121:   Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly

No advance documentation

♦  Item 136:   Programme planning

No advance documentation

 

[9 October 2019]

 

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