High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2025

When

July 14, 2025 - July 23, 2025    
12:00 am

Event Type

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will be held from 14 to 23 July 2025, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations Headquarters.

The theme of the HLPF is “Advancing sustainable, inclusive, science- and evidence-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals for leaving no one behind”.


Within the HLPF, the side event “Science Day 2025: Unlocking tomorrow’s solutions, today” organized by the International Science Council will be held on 15 July from 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM EST (New York time).

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The live broadcast will be available on UN Web TV in this page.


On the afternoon, the official meeting “Accelerating SDG achievement in African countries, LDCs, LLDCs and middle-income countries” will be held in-Person on 15 July 2025 from 03:00 to 06:00 PM EST (New York time).

This meeting will be held in two parts:

  • Part I: Africa, Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing Countries (3:00 to 4:30)
  • Part II: Middle-Income Countries (4:30 to 6:00)

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Dr. Bill Kelly, WFEO-UN Relations Committee (WURC) Member and Senior Advisor to ASCE will attend both events and the one page summary of the WFEO Engineering Capacity Building for Africa Programme (ECBAP) will be shared.
 
For more information:

Engineering Capacity Building for Africa Programme (ECBAP)

WFEO-UN Relations Committee (WURC) website