New York Host City CSD 17 Preparatory Meeting Notice

Last May NYC successfully hosted the UN’s Commission on Sustainable Development meeting (CSD 16) and many FSNYC members participated in helping to organize side events including the City-Farm CSD Showcase and the City-Farm Linkages Showcase Learning Event at Teacher's College (Click here to view the live notes and summaries on the Sustainable Food Monitor website)

Please read below to learn of an opportunity for those interested in working on the local NYC host organizing comittee for CSD 17.

MAJOR GROUPS PLANNING SESSION

All interested groups planning to be active at CSD 17 are invited to a briefing and planning session addressing emerging and shared priority issues of Major Group Organizing Partners and CSD participants for the 2009 session. This will include initial plans for the Intergovernmental Planning Meeting (February 23-27) and CSD 17 (May 4-15), 2009,

The meeting will be preceded by a local New York City host organizing committee gathering for those who facilitated the May 2008 CSD 16 reception, weekend Showcase and Symposium and are organizing events for the upcoming CSD 17. Interested others based locally are invited.

Date: Friday, November 21, 2008

Place: Baha’i International Community United Nations Office
866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 120 (first floor), New York, New York 10018
(located just two blocks north of the United Nations near the northeast corner of
First Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets on Manhattan’s East Side)

Time:
1 - 2:30 pm
Local NYC host organizing committee
Chaired by Thomas Forster, IPSA and Hiram Larew, US Government

2:30 pm
Break/networking during overlapping time between the two meetings

3-4:30 pm
All CSD 17-interested participants -- priority issues briefing and planning session
Federica Pietracci, UN Major Group Programme (invited)

RSVP
ipsa@igc.org

Notes of the meeting will be available on our website. We are exploring call in capability and will advise further in the near future.

http://www.sustainablefoodmonitor.org

Thank you to the Baha’i United Nations Office for offering meeting space