The objectives of the Youth CSET are meant to advance the work of the UN MGCY Youth Science-Policy Interface Platform, as it relates to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:

 

Engagement:

 

• Provide an open platform for youth organizations and practitioners to engage in science-policy discussions on the role of data, science, technology, engineering, & innovation to achieve the SDGs and affiliated intergovernmental processes within the UN system (DRR, SCP, SIDS, FFD, Goal 14, WUF, COP 23)

• Bring together a diverse group of youth from various backgrounds, experiences, and regions to formulate positions that will be communicated at high-level forums with member states, governmental officials, UN agencies, civil society members, private sector, and Major Groups & other stakeholders

• Facilitate communication, access to information, and progress reporting on the implementation, follow-up, and review of the 2030 Agenda.

 

Topics of Focus:

 

• Strengthening the science-policy interface at the global, national, and local level

• Increasing policy coherence and synergy across sustainable development agendas towards appropriate national S&T roadmaps for the implementation of the SDGs

• Role of young practitioners in sustainable development policy at all levels to achieve the 2030 Agenda

• Sharing tools to assess knowledge, use evidence for policy, and communicate science effectively

• Themes of the 21th Session of the Commission on Science & Technology for Development

• Themes of the 2018 Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation for the SDGs

• SDGs being reviewed at the 2018 UN High-Level Political Forum

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