Food quality and balanced nutrition are at the foundation of human development, but amid climate change, rising poverty, and social disparities in Latin America and the Caribbean, food producers are finding it increasingly difficult to offer food sustainably. This session brings together representatives of the key agencies responsible for food production, sustainable agriculture, and agribusiness to identify the main issues and practical solutions to food security in the region.
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#MetoWe with Impact Hubs!
Impact Hub, the world’s largest entrepreneurial impact network, will be showcasing their collective wisdom and impact on the world during Global Goals Week. Impact Hub Taipei is happy to deliver the #MetoWe event together with eight other Impact Hubs around the world! The 24-hour, non-stop event on the Gather Town platform will feature talks and demonstrations, each session in response to a certain SDG. Join us to scale the impact together!
Sustainable Cities: Today’s Projects for Tomorrow’s Quality
We must push for the replacement of linear ‘production-consumption-waste’ models with inclusive, circular, restorative, regenerative models based on eco-design, servitization, efficient and transparent use of resources, and the extension of the useful life of goods while ensuring the dignity of people. This Facebook Live event seeks to influence the urgent structural changes needed in the industry to make them part of the real scheme of sustainability.
How can we undertake projects to build inclusive communities?
How can we empower the leadership of minorities and what tools can we provide them to develop their own entrepreneurial initiatives? How can we fight poverty through social inclusion?
This Facebook Live event will discuss how the transition towards a #CircularIndustry will help ensure a healthy and livable planet that reduces inequalities while guaranteeing and respecting human rights.
Cities and Renewable Energies
Support the #Don’tChooseExtinction campaign today to make the complex technical issues related to fossil fuel subsidies and the climate emergency more accessible.
This Facebook Live event seeks to promote dialogue on the financing and management of renewable energy projects, energy resilience at the local level, and possible examples of implementation and outcomes.
Voices from Indigenous Community Youth
Through the voices of Indigenous youth, this event promotes awareness about the inequality, discrimination, and human rights violations suffered by vulnerable groups as well as the impact this inequality and violation has on the fulfillment of the SDGs.
In this Facebook Live event, Indigenous youth will share about their identities, their experiences, and the barriers they face regarding equality, non-discrimination and respect for human rights.
#WorldCleanAirDay: Youth-led Action to Fight Air Pollution
This youth event is organized by the Latin American Coalition for Clean Air, in collaboration with UNEP. It will focus on discussing the importance of air quality and its relationship with health, climate crisis and people’s quality of life. It will serve to promote awareness of the problem and encourage empowerment and collaboration, in order to contribute to the comprehensive and intersectional solutions that are required for effective public policies. The panelists will discuss in depth concrete solutions taken by young people to promote clean air for everyone.
Unlocking sustainable finance for nature-based solutions
Join us for an event on the sidelines of UNGA 77 in New York where Devex — in partnership with FinDev Canada, Pollination and ANZ — will show how private investors and development finance institutions hold the power to protect, sustainably manage, and restore ecosystems through investments in nature-based solutions.
Global Citizenship and Sustainability Education: Moving Beyond Awareness
For educators interested in global citizenship education & building a better understanding of sustainable, human flourishing in schools.
This one-hour online seminar is for educators and anyone interested in global citizenship education and building a better understanding of sustainable, human flourishing in education settings – or anything contained within SDG 4.7. Lyfta is a digital, immersive learning platform that brings the outside world into classrooms through real life human stories.
Responsible Business at the Forefront of South-South and Triangular Cooperation
Held on the sidelines of the Global South-South Development Expo in Thailand, this virtual side event will showcase concrete examples and lessons between the UN Global Compact, its Local Networks and participants, particularly at the regional level, on building back better from COVID-19 while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The event will showcase the inclusive and diverse nature of South-South and triangular cooperation that supports partnerships where each partner can contribute according to its own capacities and means, notably in the private sector.
17 Books: Higher Education and the SDGs
Emerald Publishing’s book series, Higher Education & the SDGs, launches at the United Nations Transforming Education Summit on September 16, 2022 at 10AM Eastern with its first webinar discussion as part of an upcoming series in partnership with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Youth.
Befitting the Summit’s ‘Youth Mobilization’ theme that the day, Series Editor Dr. Wendy M. Purcell will be joined by students and some of her book editors from the series to explore the role of higher education in delivering the SDGs to help create a world that leaves no one behind.
#2030NOW: On Track, Off Track or Stalled
With eight years left to make progress on the 2030 Agenda, whether we can still achieve the Global Goals is the big question on the front burner of conversations. Intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 2 billion individuals have been pushed back into extreme poverty with a significant number of children unable to return to school post-pandemic. This event will measure our progress on the SDGs and determine a way forward.
Powering Jobs Census 2022: The Energy Access Workforce
Join us on 19 September 2022 at 10:00 am ET as we launch the findings of the Powering Jobs Census 2022: The Energy Access Workforce. To create advocacy and awareness around the immediate need to increase the human capacity pipeline for the DRE sector, Power for All is launching the Powering Jobs Census 2022: The Energy Access Workforce report. It compiles findings from a comprehensive survey conducted across five countries (Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda).
The Cold Truths for a Warming World: What’s Stopping us from “Getting It Done”?
We have the tech, tools and cash. So why is the gap between what people say and what they do getting wider? How is progress on halving emissions being slowed down? What, and who, is stopping us from “Getting It Done”? Commitments won’t deliver themselves. We must follow through on promises, and we need to show the world how.
Getting It Done: Being Accountable
Committing to climate action means nothing without accountability. We all need to hold ourselves answerable to the promises we’ve made, and we all play a part in holding others to their commitments – especially those who aren’t committing at all. With climate strategies and actions being scrutinized more than ever, being accountable must become as important as the commitments themselves.
Getting It Done: Now or Never for Bold Leadership
Current climate leadership is not working well enough. Emissions aren’t peaking and are not on course for the 50% drop we need to see in this decade. It’s now or never for bold climate leadership in all forms. We need entire sectors to move as one, as well as leaders and innovators in business and government to push us forward further and faster. This session explores how leadership must change to keep us on track.
The New Climate Reality: Responding to Complex and Connected Crises
Our world is connected, complex and changing. The impacts of climate change are compounding existing and growing global crises: from energy and supply chain pressures, to food and economic inequalities. These crises are impacting progress on climate, too. Ahead of COP27, what should be the international response to the multiple interlinked crises we are now experiencing?
The New Climate Reality: Energy Certainty in an Uncertain World
As the world faces the biggest energy crises in this century, creating access to clean, affordable, and reliable energy in a resilient system must become a priority. But we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. So how can the world double down on clean energy strategies to meet demand, deliver security of supply and build energy independence? And how can we deliver short-term solutions to addressing the current crises without turning on the taps for fossil fuels and undermining our long-term goals?
Global People’s Assembly
As we approach the halfway point in the Agenda 2030 it is clear that new policies and new approaches will be required if the Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved. The #FlipTheScript campaign speaks directly to many of the needed course corrections at the national and international levels. As a part of the campaign, CSOs are encouraged to sign up to a joint statement entitled “Time is Now: Act for Peace, Climate and Justice” here.
One of the main highlights of the Global Week to #Act4SDGs will be the 2022 Global People’s Assembly (GPA) involving activists from around the world in a three-day online forum taking place September 20-22. Led by the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) and network partners, including C4UN, this year’s GPA builds on national and regional preparatory events held in 30 locations around the world. See the GPA programme of events and activities. Zoom links are provided in the programme to register for each of the sessions.
India’s Big Idea: A Roadmap for Net Zero
By 2030, India’s green economy could contribute more than $1 trillion globally. By 2050, this could rise to $15 trillion. In this event, we’ll ask critical influencers from government, business and wider society to explore how we can unlock the opportunities presented by greater climate action in India.