Delivering economically just, and globally inclusive solutions to the challenges posed by the climate crisis sits at the heart of the climate justice debate. This session will delve into this topic, exploring the intersection of people and planet. Participants will be joined by leaders from the climate and environmental justice movement to analyze the current state of the movement in North America and the Global South.
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The Climate Pledge in action: Net-zero carbon by 2040
The Climate Pledge is a cross-sector community of companies working together to reach net-zero carbon by 2040. The partnership formed by signatories Amazon and Infinium, is a great example of this collaboration in action.
Join this session to learn more about The Climate Pledge, The Climate Pledge Fund and more about signatories working together to reach net-zero carbon by 2040.
Accelerating the transition to clean energy and a green economy
The 2020s are critical to laying the bedrock for achieving ambitious climate goals laid out by countries, governments and the private sector. Over the next decade, moving towards low carbon alternatives such as renewable energy, hydrogen and clean electricity and deploying new, innovative technologies will be pivotal in meeting the challenges of the climate crisis. The panel will bring together government, business, and industry experts to reflect on the barriers, solutions, and policy required.
Under2 Coalition General Assembly
The Under2 Coalition General Assembly is the annual meeting of our member states and regions. It brings us together to share knowledge and first-hand experience of climate action and to challenge the international community to increase its ambition and play its part.
This year we look forward to hearing from our five co-chairs for 2022-2024 as well as governors, premiers and first ministers from across our global membership. We look at how we and our networks work towards a net zero world.
How to win in an age of extremes: Climate Group North America strategy consultation
Post-Pandemic, we’ve swapped one age of extremes for another. With climate leadership ever more critical, how can we navigate myriad political and economic challenges to come out on top? To meet the moment, the Climate Group is refreshing its strategic approach to climate action in North America.
The Climate Pledge in action: net-zero carbon by 2040
The Climate Pledge is a cross-sector community of companies & organizations working together to address the climate crisis and solve the challenges of decarbonizing our economy. Bringing together those that are prepared to run the furthest and fastest, The Climate Pledge calls on its cross-sector community of more than 300 signatories and counting to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040‚ years ahead of the Paris Agreement.
Advancing Environmental Health Equity
Climate change is a global public health crisis, but the impacts are not distributed equally. While work to mitigate climate change is essential, action must also be taken to accelerate resiliency and adaptation – especially in communities that are feeling the impacts of climate change today. This session by Johnson & Johnson will bring together frontline healthcare workers, climate specialists and community advocates to discuss both the challenges and opportunities for climate change and health equity.
It’s a material world: Making the right investments for industrial decarbonization
We live in a material world. Significantly more investments are needed to support the decarbonization of some of our most used materials, steel and concrete. But a lack of understanding in where the investment opportunities and risks lie are delaying progress in some of the highest emitting sectors.
Accelerating Supplier Climate Education and Action
Addressing the carbon impacts beyond a company’s direct operations is one of the biggest challenges and areas of opportunity for global businesses. Large corporations can significantly contribute to the need for collective climate action by bringing their suppliers along the greenhouse gas emissions reduction journey, but where do they begin?
Join Estée Lauder Companies and Supplier on Leadership on Climate Transition (S-LoCT) for a discussion on reducing these wide-ranging emissions.
Ideas in Motion with Cara Boccieri
Ideas in Motion is a fast-paced “speed-gifting” process to move something along from idea to action or challenge to opportunity.
For this session, we will be gifting for Cara Boccieri, founder of Akamae, an ethical fashion brand that connects creatives and refugee artisans. Then the audience will be broken up into small groups for rapid ideation. Participants will use who they are, what they know, who they know, and the resources they have at hand to provide their “gifts” (insights, ideas, connections) to Cara.
Sustainable Food Systems: Active Childhood
13.3% of the world’s food is lost after harvest and before reaching retail markets, while 17% of all food is wasted at the individual consumer level. In this Facebook Live event with Chef Oropeza, we will learn about the importance of a sustainable and healthy diet, healthy snacking, reducing the use of plant-based proteins, and raising awareness and how to reduce food waste and loss.
Report on Progress and Setbacks around SDG 16
According to the United Nations, a record number of 100 million people have been forced from their homes since May 2022 alone. As of the end of 2020, a quarter of the planet’s population lives in countries affected by violent conflict. In this Facebook Live event, we will address the challenges, progress and setbacks that SDG 16 has faced in calling for a #CeaseFire to prevent loss of human life and socioeconomic instability.
Circular Economy and Sustainable Water Management
Water is at the heart of sustainable development, yet today our water sources are at risk. In this Facebook Live webinar, Strategy Circular MX will share how it has helped companies and organizations to define and implement strategies based on the principles and business models of a circular economy. In particular, it will discuss how the transition to a circular economy can help achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water through technological development.
Paying Early Attention to Zero- to Six-Year-Olds
This Facebook Live event seeks to discuss an approach focusing on the population of zero- to six-year-olds with perinatal sequelae and follow up on their neurodevelopment through a specialized transdisciplinary team in order to prevent or minimize negative outcomes. The approach includes their family and environment with the aim of improving participation and social inclusion.
Role of the Legislative Power in the Fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda
The involvement of all sectors and actors is of vital importance in working towards the 2030 Agenda. Governments play an important role through programs and the designation of taxes for the improvement of their countries and localities. For this reason, they need to understand how they can act.
This Facebook Live event will discuss how daily decisions made by legislative powers can be used to fulfill the 2030 Agenda.
Preservation of the Ecological Balance
Mexico’s biodiversity is being threatened by pollution, climate change, and the destruction of habitat for endangered species such as sea turtles, who nest on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico.
This Facebook Live event will discuss how climate change affects endangered species. Specifically, it will cover Gulf of Mexico sea turtles, ocean and beach pollution, and our actions to preserve the ecological balance.
Building Alliances for Youth
Alliances are vital for a sustainable future. Nothing can be achieved without a #SustainableAlliance at all levels and the understanding that all crises and ways to prevent them are comprehensively addressed by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs.
This Facebook Live event will discuss the importance of youth who are full of ideas and have been practicing leadership, two key elements needed to achieve the 2030 Agenda.
What is Sorority and Why Live it?
#RecoverInEquality seeks to build spaces through a gender perspective in which women, adolescents and girls are the main catalysts and participants in decision-making processes at all levels.
This Facebook Live dialogue will address how sorority is experienced through following topics: the concept of sorority, romanticized sorority, sorority in the public sphere, and sorority for personal growth.
Voices in Miami: College Thoughts
Voices in Miami is a Social Impact Movement podcast created in 2021 by two Miami change makers, Josie and Olivia, as a celebration of the anniversary of the SDGs. This year, we join Global Goals Week from our hosts’ college campus. By interviewing students while they walk into their classrooms, Josie and Olivia will look for answers to the question: What do you think is the biggest problem in the world today?
Publish your SDG Article during Global Goals Week
Join the fast-growing movement of young change-makers writing content and sharing articles about the Sustainable Development Goals. From your classroom, dorm, library, or just from home, choose your theme and start writing today!
SDGtalks.ai articles published during Global Goals Week will be highlighted on the Social Impact Movement website.