The International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) provides a forum for academia, government, civil society, UN agencies, and the private sector to come together to share practical solutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2 day event will feature over 450 academic presentations and several keynote speeches from key leaders such as heads of states and UN officials.
SDG 11: CITIES
Covid, Climate and Cooperation: What Will It Take to Fix Our Fractured World?
Ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, political, business, and civil society leaders face new urgency and rising demand to show common purpose and deliver solutions at scale. The Financial Times, in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, is delighted to host this strategic preview of the UN General Assembly bringing together diverse and insightful speakers to discuss what to expect, what’s at stake, and why it matters to you.
The Youth SDG Summit
As a part of Global Goals Week, UNITE 2030 is organizing the Youth SDG Summit from September 22 – 24, 2021.
The Youth SDG Summit convenes the brightest talent from every country and sector, working to accelerate social impact and the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, all from your home! 🏠
Throughout the Summit, attendees from 100+ countries are supported by influential political, business and humanitarian leaders, amongst many other global figures.
UNITAR Asia Pacific Day 2021
UNITAR, in collaboration with KIDsforSDGs, will host a public Global Goals Week event to celebrate the launch of the inaugural UNITAR Youth Ambassador Asia Pacific Programme.
The seminar will comprise of panel discussions:
Panel 1: Accelerating Youth Changemaking through the United Nations SDGs
Panel 2: Scaling Student Agency: Asia’s Best-In-Class Case Studies
Panel 3: Defining Youth Ambassadorship: Building Next-Generation Leaders
+ Youth Panel and SDG Showcase.
UN High-Level Dialogue on Energy
Convened virtually by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the event is shaping up to be an historic and game-changing mobilization for action and cooperation towards clean, affordable energy for all by 2030 and towards net-zero emissions by 2050. A global roadmap to 2030 has been proposed with several actions to make this happen. The event is also calling for “Energy Compact” commitments, with 25 such compacts already formed, and with more being submitted for registration. 30 Governments serve as Global Champions for the Dialogue and the private sector and philanthropy organizations are also making strong commitments.
2021 YOUNGA Forum
The YOUNGA Forum is a pioneering annual global youth takeover event uniting young people with decision-makers using VR/XR technologies to co-create solutions for a more inclusive, sustainable world during the United Nations Decade of Action. Through an inclusive, forward-looking youth-driven dialogue, YOUNGA amplifies the youth voice, creating a global interactive and participatory platform for the hopes, concerns and ideas of young people to be seen and heard by the world’s top decision-makers.
Global Week to #Act4SDGs – Latin America & The Caribbean
For the sixth consecutive year, MY World México is co-hosting the Global Week to #Act4SDGs (17-28 September) for Latin America and the Caribbean. The Global Week aims to drive collective action, mobilizing key stakeholders from all sectors to drive change while reminding world leaders that people around the world are doing their part to accelerate progress on the SDGs. Held during the high-level week of the United Nations General Assembly, this year’s mobilization will also drive action around the Food Systems Summit, pre-COP in Milan, and keep up momentum in the lead up to COP 26 in Glasgow.
UNITAR Youth Ambassador Asia Pacific Program Launch
United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) and KIDsforSDGs will jointly launch the inaugural UNITAR Youth Ambassador Asia Pacific Program on Sept 25, 2021.
The 10-week programme empowers high school students to help our world build back better, greener, and stronger through a STEMxSDG Approach.
The Program advocates for youth entrepreneurship, both for-profit and not-for-profit, through the 6Ps Approach: Power, Purpose, Partnership, Playfulness, Publicity and Profit!
Caminata de la Solidaridad 2021
En el 2021 seguimos ayudando con fuerza solidaria a quienes más lo necesitan. Del 6 al 12 de septiembre, podrás disfrutar de 200 contenidos exclusivos en nuestra plataforma virtual con diferentes temáticas: Infantil, Bienestar, Entretenimiento, Cultural y Nuestra Fundación.
Desde hace 43 años la Caminata de Solidaridad por Colombia se ha convertido en un símbolo del país; es el cuarto evento más importante en Latinoamérica, contando con millones de asistentes cada año. En esta versión continuará su marcha con la presentación de importantes artistas como Pipe Peláez, Gusi, Flora Martínez, Juan Se Quintero y muchos más que se unirán a nuestra fuerza solidaria en las cuatro tarimas que tendremos el próximo 12 de septiembre en el Teatro Cafam, El Parque el Tunal, el Parque Nacional y el Centro Comercial Nuestro Bogotá.
Sustainable Development Impact Summit
For over a year, countries have struggled to address a pandemic that respects no borders, destroys lives and livelihoods, and deepens pre-existing global challenges like inequality, climate change and education. With less than a decade left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, the fully virtual Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2021, hosted alongside the United Nations General Assembly, will bring together global leaders from diverse sectors, disciplines and geographies. Ensuring the world exits the pandemic stronger than it entered it will only be possible if leaders work together across sectors and borders to share and deploy know-how, innovation and promising approaches and accelerate the recovery.
#2030Now
To commemorate the start of the #GlobalDayofAct4SDGs, we accelerate the implementation, monitoring, financing, follow-up, socialization and evaluation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs within the framework of the Decade of Action. We urge people and organizations from all sectors to rethink the five areas of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership to undertake actions that reinforce their message and inspire.
Global Day Of Act4SDG
As part of the #GlobalDayofAct4SDGs, we invite you to highlight the achievements and increase the knowledge of people and organizations on how to materialize the 17 SDGs and their 169 goals. There needs to be a new commitment from all of us to ensure a sustainable recovery that reduces carbon emissions, conserves natural resources, creates better jobs, promotes gender equality, and addresses growing poverty and inequalities.
#GreenEquality
Unplanned and poorly managed urban development leads to increasing inequality, growing poverty, and disastrous impacts on the environment. Cities and metropolitan areas account for around 70% of global carbon emissions and more than 60% of resource use. This day seeks to raise awareness about the urgent need to promote and act for a #GreenEquality that makes cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable places.
SDG Action Zone 2021
Bringing the UN to the world and the world to the UN.
Over the course of three days during the UN General Assembly, the SDG Action Zone brings together the highest levels of UN leadership, activists, government officials, business leaders, changemakers and disruptors in a virtual collaborative space – to highlight the ecosystem-wide solutions, plans, and investments needed to positively impact people’s lives and the future of our planet.
Celebrating 100 Data Partnerships: A Global Partnership Townhall
Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data has come a long way since we were founded six years ago. In 2016, we brokered three data partnerships across two countries.
This summer, we hit 100 partnerships in 35 countries. That’s hundreds of new connections to harness the power of data to bring us closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We’re celebrating this major milestone with a Town Hall event during Global Goals Week.
GGWCUP Nigeria 2021
Global Goals World Cup Nigeria is a 5 aside football tournament for all-women teams. Each team champions one of the SDGs, and is ranked by the action taken for their Goal on and off the field. The teams are scored in four distinct categories: Action, Crowd, Style and Football. Those awarded not only win a tournament. They amplify their calls to action and create impact, locally and globally.
Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Youth Power for the Global Goals
Join us to celebrate #YOUTHPOWER and learn how young people are making an impact on the Global Goals.
This event will feature a diverse range of speakers sharing their own personal experience on the power of youth leadership and how we can support young people to thrive, not just survive. We will also be announcing who our winning Youth Power Hacks teams are and exploring the ideas they have developed to help tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges.
Launch of the 2021 Food and Agriculture Benchmark
The World Benchmarking Alliance will launch its first Food & Agriculture Benchmark, assessing 350 key global food and agriculture companies on their performance towards food systems transformation. The benchmark is the first of its kind to take a value-chain approach, measuring progress of companies across their environmental, nutritional and social impact towards 2030. Co-hosted with the Swiss government, the event will include speakers from government, business, farmers and civil society.
Immersive Technologies to Empower Sustainable and Inclusive Cities
Join Facebook, Raleigh and the Town of Cary, NC, and Philadelphia, PA, at the UN General Assembly, for a discussion on the influence of emerging technologies on our cities and hear how Augmented Reality tools and programs are helping cities become more equitable, sustainable, and economically inclusive.
Global Goals Week: Liverpool launch and the City’s role in National SDG Leadership
An online event to launch Global Goals Week: Liverpool and explore the city’s role in advancing local impact and wider place-based adoption of the SDGs.