Stockholm+50: Creating a culture of accountable promises and bold action

Lack of accountability is a common problem across global environmental and sustainability regimes, which hinders progress on the SDGs. This event will discuss how accountability can be incentivized and operationalized for countries and companies via new mechanisms for nurturing constructive accountability and creating a culture of upholding promises. We will explore constraints and learnings across existing regimes and highlight findings of the Stockholm+50 Scientific Report by SEI and CEEW.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres opens Stockholm+50 Conference. Photo: UN Photo / Evan Schneider.

Friday, 11 November

Name: Stockholm+50: Creating a culture of accountable promises and bold action
Start: 2022-11-11 13:15:00
End: 2022-11-11 14:30:00

Investing in Climate Smart Solutions

The Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity report from June 2022 presents a synthesis of scientific evidence on the state of global environment, and identifies concrete actions under three broad shifts: redefining the relationship between humans and nature; ensuring lasting prosperity for all; and investing in a better future. The report analyses the barriers to change and underlines the ways to unlock progress by improving coherence, accountability, solidarity and a renewed multilateralism. It makes recommendations for reform and new thinking on complex issues of de-risking finance, co-development of technology, sustainable lifestyles, and others which need bold action now.

Agenda

1315 – 1320: Welcome and Introduction | Prayank Jain, CEEW
1320 – 1330: Presentation of the S+50 scientific report | Dr Arunabha Ghosh, CEEW
1330 – 1338: Keynote remarks
1340 – 1415: Panel Discussion | Moderated by Robert Watt, SEI

Kelly Gallagher, Centre for International Environmental Research and Policy, Fletcher School
Sébastien Duyck, Centre for International Environmental Law
Dominic Waughray, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Minorua Takada, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

1415 – 1425: Audience Q/A and reflections by Dr Arunabha Ghosh
1425 – 1430: Short film presentation | “Portrait of a silver lining” by SEI and CEEW

The panellists will be experts representing different regimes, such as finance, human rights, international law, and environment monitoring. For any questions, please contact Mr Prayank Jain, Special Assistant to the CEO, CEEW at [email protected] or at +91-9910240032.

Stockholm+50: Creating a culture of accountable promises and bold action — Graphic: CEEW.

Robert Watt

Communications Director and Head of Strategic Policy Engagement
SEI Headquarters
Communications
@wattrob

SDG Pavilion at COP27

FAO expert Piyush C. Agrawal from India conducting a class in measurement by estimation at the College of Agriculture and Forestry near Monrovia, Liberia [c. 1974]

Stockholm+50: Shifting Sustainability from the Margins to the Mainstream

The event explores the role of universities, educational institutions and industry bodies on how they can normalize sustainability and dynamic learning systems.