The Inter-American Committee on Sustainable Development (CIDS) of the Organization of American States' (OAS) Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) will: examine a Secretariat report on the implementation of the 2010-2014 phase of the Inter-American Program for Sustainable Development (PIDS); discuss the proposed strategic areas of action for a post-2015 PIDS that take into account the work in the UN on the post-2015 development agenda; and adopt decisions necessary for conducting a PIDS review and update, with a view to approval of the post-2015 PIDS at the III Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and High Level Authorities on Sustainable Development, scheduled for October 2015 in Honduras. The PIDS establishes the OAS priorities and policy guidelines with respect to sustainable development and environment, covering strategic areas of action such as sustainable agriculture, climate change adaptation, water resources, natural hazards risk management, and promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency. The original PIDS was approved by the I Meeting of Ministers and High Level Authorities for Sustainable Development in 2006, extended by the II Meeting in 2010 until 2014, and further extended through December 2015 by the OAS General Assembly in June 2014.  

dates: 22-23 October 2014  
venue: OAS Headquarters  
location: Washington D.C., US  
contact: Department of Sustainable Development, OAS Secretariat  
e-mail: sustainable_dev@oas.org  
www: http://www.oas.org/en/sedi/dsd/flyer.asp