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!
SDG 13: CLIMATE
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.
#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.
New Partnerships to Unlock A More Sustainable Future
Please join the United Nations Foundation, APCO Worldwide and leaders representing the private and public sectors, philanthropy, civil society, multilateral organizations and next generation of change-makers, to catalyze cross-sectoral collaboration to address today’s pressing challenges. This breakfast program will build further on the momentum of the UN General Assembly High-Level Week, Unlock the Future of Learning Festival and Transforming Education Summit and help inform partnership opportunities and contribute to critical processes in the lead-up to the Summit of the Future in 2023.
Tech for Democracy: Problems, Progress and the Copenhagen Pledge
This gathering will bring together senior leaders from across geographies and stakeholder groups based on their support for the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy, launched by the Danish government last year.
The event will feature opening remarks by Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith followed by a keynote address from the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Jeppe Kofod. Subsequent panel discussions will feature leaders from government, industry and civil society exploring how digital technology can continue to be a force for improving lives and strengthening societies around the world in an inclusive manner. The event will culminate in the debut of a new Al art exhibit demonstrating how technology can empower human creativity.
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.
American Leadership in Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals have been embraced in American boardrooms, city halls, and classrooms as a shared understanding of what it means to build a resilient future where no one is left behind.
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution and the United Nations Foundation will convene U.S. leaders from across sectors to discuss how they are using the Sustainable Development Goals to advance progress and build collaboration at home and around the world.
The Amazon as a Bioeconomy Superpower: Investing in Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Development
The aim of this session is to create awareness of the potential for a bioeconomy of standing forests and flowing rivers in the Amazon, leveraged by investments in science, technology, and innovation as called for in SDG 9.
The Amazon Basin is one of the world’s most biologically diverse areas, home to >10% of the world’s described species. Yet, the region is under threat; approximately 17% of the basin has been deforested, and an additional 17% of the biome has been degraded. Deforestation contributes to climate change and places the region in danger of crossing a tipping point beyond which today’s forests can no longer exist.
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.
Building an African Innovation Ecosystem in New York
With the aim to catalyze collaborations to advance the SDGs, this UNGA side event will highlight leading Africa-focused innovators from both sides of the Atlantic.
This year’s event will feature a vibrant discussion about the opportunities to do business and create impact between New York and African markets. It will also feature breakout sessions in emerging technology, remote work, sustainable fashion, startup investment, and health innovation.
Impact State of Mind 2022
Impact State of Mind is a three-day UNGA side event at the intersection of Climate Action and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Climate Change is the greatest challenge of our generation, but it’s not the only one! We are organizing this event because we believe we have a responsibility to help advance efforts to combat climate while also taking into account the many other urgent issues that demand our attention now.
Impact State of Mind brings together local and global innovators to explore various intersections through co-creation, fire-side chats, panels, and networking. Our partners bring together a mix of sessions that leverage their deep and authentic experiences, while engaging audiences to magnify impact.
CulinaryAction! On the Road!
CulinaryAction! On the Road! is a food-tech and gastronomy innovation event that includes a roundtable with leaders in the innovation space, a pitch competition, food, drinks, and networking.
Alliance Action Forum: Corporate Accountability
Measuring and evaluating business impact is a critical part of the successful delivery of 2030 Agenda. However, the world currently lacks a mechanism to hold its most influential companies accountable for their impact. This workshop with multi-stakeholder participants will look at how we can collectively embed business accountability into the UN’s core working principles and turn narrative into commitments.
#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.
Goals House at UNGA & Climate Week NYC
Goals House will be at UNGA 77, bringing together a community of internationally renowned activists, thinkers, political figures and business leaders that convene at global moments, united in the drive to achieve the UN SDGs.
Among the topics that will be discussed are achieving net-zero; the impact of the pandemic on education and healthcare; a sustainable fashion industry; modern slavery; circular cities; climate tech; and the role the private sector has to play in achieving the SDGs.
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?