Including Health in Global Frameworks for Development, Wealth, and Climate Change Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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, invited experts within the fields of economics, environmental health, global health, and public policy to present their experiences and thoughts on the webinar topic areas. Participants in these webinars examined frameworks for global development goals and connections to 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the workshop summary has been prepared by the workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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A workshop summary based on all three webinars will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with National Research Council policies and procedures. health indicators, the role for health in the context of novel sustainable economic frameworks that go beyond gross domestic product, and scenarios to project climate change impacts.
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. The global community set a 15-year implementation plan to achieve the specific targets established for each MDG in order to realize overarching objectives such as poverty eradication, improved human health, and protection and management of the natural resources base.
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In July 2012, the UN High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons for the Post-2015 Development Agenda was convened and tasked to make recommendations for this development agenda that will extend beyond 2015.2 Their report was released at the end of May 2013 and titled A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform 2 The UN High-Level Panel was convened by the UN Secretary General to advise on the global development framework beyond 2015, the target date for the MDGs. The panel comprises 27 eminent leaders from civil society, the private sector, and government (http://www.un.org/sg/management/hlppost2015.shtml [accessed August 26, 2013]
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. In considering new goals and targets for post-2015 that will promote sustainable development, the High-Level Panel considered tangible topics such as hunger, poverty, sanitation, and water, as well as projections related to cross-cutting topics such as population growth and climate change.
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1992. Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992.
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