1st Multi-stakeholder platform on SDGs meeting, 10 January 2018

Background information:

This Platform was set up to support and advise the European Commission on delivering the Development Goals at EU level and aims to provide a forum for exchange of best practice at local, regional, national and EU level.

The creation of the Platform was announced in the Commission's Communication on next steps for a sustainable European future, adopted on 22 November 2016. The subsequent selection process, launched by the Commission on 22 May 2017 sought an inclusive and balanced stakeholder representation, including civil society, non-governmental organisations and the private and corporate sector, and covering the social, economic and environmental as well as the internal and external policy dimensions of sustainable development.

+ Appointment of Platform members, October 2017

The first meeting of the European Commission's High-Level multi-stakeholder platform on the follow up to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the European Union was held on 10 January 2018.

• Primary Source

European Commission: Press Release, 11.01.18: Sustainable Development Goals: first meeting of the Commission's high level multi-stakeholder platform http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-82_en.htm

European Parliament: EPRS At a Glance: Understanding Sustainable Development Goals http://www.europeansources.info/record/understanding-sustainable-development-goals/

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