COMMITTEE MANDATE

The United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) was established in June 2013 through a Resolution by the UN General Assembly as the main forum for sustainable development issues within the UN framework. Its establishment is one the main outcomes of the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development. The HLPF replaces the Commission for Sustainable Development, which was a functional Commission under the UN Economic and Social Council, established at the 1992 in the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

It is mandated to cover the following:
• Monitoring and reviewing the implementation of 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
• Providing leadership and guidance to governments.
• Recognizing and addressing new and emerging sustainable development challenges.
• Enhancing integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
• Bringing together input and expertise from a wide range of stakeholders.


The simulation under HLPF is that of the Higher Education Sustainable Initiative.The Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) for Rio+20 was initiated in 2012 by a group of UN partners (the Executive Coordinator of Rio+20, UN DESA, UNEP, UNESCO, UN Global Compact, UN Global Compact's Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and UNU) as an initiative for Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in the run-up to the Rio+20 Conference. The essence of HESI is to enable multiple stakeholders to allow agency into prioritizing best practices and marking them as future goals.

It is mandated to cover the following:
• Educate current and future decision makers.
• Build more sustainable societies and develop new paradigms.
• Promote development through research and training.
• Provide leadership on education for sustainable development.
• Provide platform for higher education institutions to showcase their integration of SDG's into research, training and pedagogy.