On 19 June, The European Commission’s DG Development & Cooperation, EuropeAid and the United Kingdom jointly organise a side event to the Rio+20 Conference, on Sustainable Development Goals: From ‘silo thinking’ towards an integrated approach. Insights from the European Report on Development.
The high-level panel will provide the opportunity to discuss how the integrated thinking of The European Report on Development (ERD) could inform the development of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Keynotes speakers include Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for the Environment and Caroline Spelman, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. From ODI, Dirk Willem te Velde, ERD Team Leader will give an introduction to the European Report on Development, together with Imme Scholz from the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).
