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Main Milestones
2017
The Ocean Conference
2015
Addis Ababa Action Agenda
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Paris Agreement
2014
SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway
2013
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
2012
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, RIO +20: the Future We Want
2010
Five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy of Implementation: MSI+5
2005
BPOA+10: Mauritius Strategy of Implementation
2002
World Summit on Sustainable (WSSD) Rio+10: Johannesburg Plan of Implementation
1999
Bardados Programme of Action (BPOA)+5
1997
UNGASS -19: Earth Summit +5
1994
Bardados Programme of Action (BPOA)
1993
Start of CSD
1992
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Agenda 21
1987
Our Common Future
1972
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference)
Creation of UNEP
Information and Telecommunication Technologies for Environmental Challenges
Eye on Earth Summit, 2011
by: International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

The Eye On Earth Summit - and multi-stakeholder event and exhibition to convene the thought and action leaders in the worldwide environmental and societal information networking consensus on key areas of mutual importance, and to collaborate towards strengthening existing initiatives and filling gaps towards more future. The Summit is expected to: · Identify commonalities in existing environmental information networks in an effort to strengthen, align and synergize these initiatives while collectively filling the gaps through coordinated alignment of common efforts; · Strengthen, synergize, and extend global processes for bridging the environmental knowledge gap and provide data, information and tools for decision (transformative action); · Reinforce multilateral policies and institutional arrangements to leverage investments in environmental data while ensuring the preservation of the investment in this information to improve information infrastructure in countries needed coordinated, effective and sustainable development; · Support technical cooperation to accelerate the building of a federated global environmental information infrastructure; · Accelerate capacity building and technology support programs around the world to further close the gap between developed and developing nations. · Strengthen access to resources to support developing countries

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