MDG Summit & Exhibition 2013 – Under New Management

Following the launch of the MDG Summit & Exhibition in Cape Town in May 2012, we are pleased to announce the follow up MDG countdown event on the 29th – 30th May 2013.

As from November 2012 EMS Solutions took over the organizing of all the future MDG Summits / Exhibitions scheduled starting with the Birmingham, United Kingdom event in May 2013.

This next meeting is best positioned to prelude the UN Summit in New York scheduled for September 2013 during the General Assembly.

We want to take to the world leaders a detailed synopsis from all present at this meeting in the UK next April.

UN Summit in New York is where the world leaders will again sit and evaluate how the last three years since the last meeting in 2010 have turned out, and also agree on a way forward to the target year and post 2015.

As in the launch summit in Cape Town, the role of business as one of the solutions to achieving these goals was clearly displayed through the various keynotes and presentations done by our sponsor organizations such as ABSA, Alcatel Lucent, Sumitomo, Vestergaard Frandsen, Agco, Ericsson, Roche and AECF.

While some notable progress has been made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, success remains very uneven. Bridging the gaps that still exist within the remaining three years will require a concerted effort by all, including the private sector as the most critical driver of innovation, investment and job creation.

The next MDG Summit and exhibition themed: Sustainable Business Solutions That Deliver Change is set to be a bigger platform for all the stake holders to share ideas and also learn of new technologies and processes that contribute to the attainment of the MDG Goals, we are confident that the next months of preparation will be focusing on creating just that. Below are some of the key sectors the next event will focus on and also showcase some of the worlds leading solution providers and policy makers.

SECTORS CONFIRMED FOR NEXT SUMMIT, BOTH CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION

• Energy & Environmental Issues
• Water & Sanitation
• Health & Pharmaceutical
• Education
• Information Technology (ICT) as a developmental tool
• Construction & Development
• Transport & Logistics
• Gender & Equality
• Food and Agriculture

A snippet of the proposed event Programme keynote topics

• Development and business performance through impact measurement
• Implementing Innovative Public-Private Partnership Models to Fight poverty & hunger
• How inclusive is inclusive business?
• MDGs post 2015
• Putting women at the heart of Africa’s economic future
• A Global Business Coalition for Education
• Capacity Development in Africa
• Water & Sanitation
• Financing for development

GOALS

Prime Minister Julia Gillard urges UN to set new goals against poverty

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has urged world leaders to set new goals to fight global poverty through green jobs, clean energy and a new global oceans’ treaty.

One of more than 100 world leaders at the United Nations sustainable development conference in Rio de Janeiro, Ms Gillard delivered a seven-minute official address just after 0800 AEST.

Given that the leaders had “already lowered other important ambitions”, it made it all the more important that the summit sign off on a new agreement to put in place “sustainable development goals” (SDGs), the prime minister said.

Ms Gillard and the Australian delegation have pushed hard for the SDGs to replace the millennium development goals (MDGs), which were put in place to fight global poverty in 2000 and expire in 2015.

The prime minister during the UN summit was appointed to co-chair a special task force to oversee the final years of the millennium goals and ensure all nations met their commitments.

“Everyone here knows that collective action is hard – and that global collective action can be even harder,” she said.

“(But) everyone here also knows that targets work … (and) set the firmest possible basis for long-term success.”

Australia’s aid budget is set to increase 60 per cent in the next five years, even though the federal budget delayed meeting its own MDG by one year.

Ms Gillard said Australia was “playing its part” in addressing climate change and creating green jobs by putting in place a price on carbon from July 1 and investing in renewable energy.

Australia was also putting a new focus on the health of the oceans and managing the “blue economy” that they underpin, she said.

She called for a “strong oceans governance convention” to be put in place and new marine protected areas to be established.

“We are not here this week just to talk to each other. We’re here to decide, to agree – and then to act,” the prime minister said.

The final day of the summit is expected to adopt a 50-page statement which includes a commitment to working on the detail of the new SDGs, which have the endorsement of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

On the second day of the summit, Ms Gillard addressed a breakfast function where she announced $A33 million for action to protect fish stocks and conserve marine ecosystems, working with Asia-Pacific nations.

She also addressed a UN women’s forum, where she called inequality between men and women a “serious economic blind spot”, worth an estimated $47 billion a year.

Ms Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister, lamented the fact that only 10 per cent of UN member nations are led by women, including two per cent of Pacific nations.

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