The 2018 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development – Taking stock and looking forward
5 July 2018 Once again governments will meet this July at the UN Headquarters in New York for the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), convened under the auspices of the ...
Call for case studies – share your solutions on protected areas and gender/cities/water by 23 October!
Are you a solution provider? IUCN is currently looking for conservation success stories, which demonstrate how protected areas contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals on Gender equality (SDG5) ...
Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development 2019
The SDG Global Festival of Action will be attended by leaders from governments, local authorities, international organizations, civil society, the creative industry and the private sector, the ...
MOOC: Introduction to data governance for monitoring the SDGs
The UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the UN Statistics Division (UNSD) have launched their new, free online course: "Introduction to data governance for monitoring the SDGs". Taking ...
4th G-STIC Conference
Please note: The 4th G-STIC conference will be a hybrid event, offering online participation possibilities in addition to the participation at Tour & Taxis in Brussels, Belgium. How do you capture new ...
SDG Acceleration Actions
In the lead up to the SDG Summit, UN DESA set up an online platform titled, SDG Acceleration Actions, to capture and collect new commitments or initiatives that are undertaken by Member States and ...
Stellenbosch University announces new School for Climate Studies
Due to the growing need of experts to understand and tackle the current climate crisis, Stellenbosch University has announced that it will be establishing a School for Climate Studies, launching in ...
Planet Budapest 2021 Sustainability Expo and Summit
The Planet Budapest 2021 Sustainability Expo and Summit is a sustainable development event for the Visegrád Countries. It aims to raise awareness of adverse environmental, social and economic ...
United Nations 2023 Water Conference
On 20 December 2018 the General Assembly adopted the resolution on the “Midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action, ‘Water for Sustainable Development’ ...
OECD Water Security for Sustainable Development in Africa – Call for Stakeholder Contributions
On 21 March 2018, Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, received the King Hassan II Great World Water Prize during the 8th World Water Forum (Brasilia). The Prize provides an impetus for the ...
Hot off the press: New Water Europe publication 'Water in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'
Water Europe, one of the AfriAlliance partners, has launched its new publication 'Water in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: How can Europe Act'. The publication has been jointly designed ...
Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2020
The Sustainable Development Report 2020 presents the SDG Index and Dashboards for all UN member states and frames the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in terms of six broad ...
Launch of the Global Center on Adaptation
17 October 2018 On 16 October 2018, the formal launch of the Global Center on Adaptation took place in The Hague, the Netherlands. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said that “the role of Global Center on ...
Handbook on adaptive management strategies and options for the water sector in South Africa under climate change
South Africa is characterised by a highly variable climate added to an already stressed water situation and an imperfect governance system. It became clear that projected amplification of the effects ...
MEP Water Group organizes public session on “Τhe role of Water in Adaptation to Climate Change”
21 December 2016 Under the theme ‘The role of water in Adaptation to Climate Change’, the MEP Water Group organised a well attended public session on the 6th of December at the European Parliament in ...
Course: Tools for Wetland Assessment
The course “Tools for Wetland Assessment” organised by Rhodes University, GroundTruth, Verdant Environmental and WRC introduces participants to a range of tools currently available to conduct or ...
WETPOL 2019
WETPOL is an international conference bringing together wetland scientists, engineers, and practitioners working on wetland ecosystem services, including water quality improvement, climate regulation ...
Wetland conservation and management
Civil society organisations need to support wetland conservation and management to ensure the provision of wetland ecosystem services which contribute to maintaining water quality and quantity ...
