High-level Forum on “The Africa We Want in 2030, 2063 and Beyond: Early Action and Results of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in the context of the First Ten-Year Implementation Plan of Africa’s Transformative Agenda 2063: Opportunities
Author: Libby MacDuffee, Representing the Fyera Foundation
Notes:
- Roundtable 1 on “Pharmaceutical manufacturing, energy, and productive capacity development as entry points to Africa’s recovery”
- Roundtable 2 on “Preparing for COP27 – an “African COP”
- Roundtable 3 on “Domestic resource mobilization, innovative financing and global partnerships for recovery and progress on the SDGs and Agenda 2063”.
(NOTE: The Opening Remarks and Roundtables began to blend together, so some notes are in order of presentation and others are combinations of items that speakers said and repeated as main points throughout).
Opening Statements & Early Speakers from NGO’s and Nation States:
- All speakers focused on the disproportionate impact of climate change on