The United Nations Development Programme, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, UN Environment and the Folke Bernadotte Academy will organize a dialogue in Stockholm on how to improve the management of natural resources for more sustainable and peaceful outcomes that advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Stockholm Dialogue on the Nexus between Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability, and Conflict Prevention will bring together representatives from the governments, the UN, academia, civil society, and the private sector from countries that have large mineral reserves, including Colombia, Peru and Kenya.
During this one-day Dialogue, policy makers will explore how to bridge the human rights, sustainable development and peace agendas through integrated natural resource management solutions, using the extractives industry as an example.
The demand for metals and minerals continues to grow including to advance durable growth and green technologies required for a low-carbon future. As extractive industries encroach further into environmentally pristine areas, greater efforts are needed to protect human rights and the biodiversity and ecosystems on which local communities and society more broadly depend.
Expert speakers will highlight these challenges and the solutions that governments and partners are advancing to integrate human rights and the environment into the governance of the mining sector. Case studies will show how such approaches can ensure a better balance between social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development, reduce the drivers of social conflict, and help sustain peace.
The Dialogue will showcase initiatives and country examples supported by the joint UNDP-Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Governance Programme; the joint UN Environment-UN Women- UNDP Programme on Women, Natural Resources and Peace; and the Folke Bernadotte Academy.
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