WCC 2016 Res 096 - Activity Report

ECO included aspects of the CBD and SDG policies and processes in our annual conferences. We reported on these matters and events we were aware of also to our member bodies and to the other readers of our weekly email bulletin. ECO participated in Hui E! discussions and in an Auckland University of Technology conference on the SDGs and helped to facilitate round table discussions.

ECO is reporting on several years for this report. We made submissions (in 2017 or 2018) on the process of the development of the post 2020 targets to CBD; We submitted directly to the CBD on a few substantive matters. We made submissions to the NZ government on these and the SDGs, and quoted IUCN submissions and suggestions in the process. We collaborated in a civil society alternative national report on the SDGs, particularly SDG 14 "Under the Surface". . ECO wrote that particular chapter though there was a bit of editing done by a committee.
We have supported the provisions for the transition in New Zealand to give greater recognition to and governance rights of Maori in a variety of legal and policy decision making and other processes.