In supporting the implementation of the Rio+20 outcome document on Sustainable Development Goals and the Post 2015 Development Agenda, the EMG senior officials in their eighteenth meeting in December 2012 agreed to provide a contribution, within the existing processes and through the frameworks established by the Secretary-General, providing the perspectives of the UN system agencies on the environmental sustainability dimension of the future development agenda.
The EMG contribution would facilitate the integration of the environmental dimension into sustainable development goals (SDGs), drawing on the information, assessment, and strategic views of EMG members. It would look into how the environmental goals and targets established by the multilateral environmental agreements such as on biodiversity and desertification could be integrated into the future development agenda.
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