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This event is the concluding webinar of a series focusing on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus (WEF). These webinars aimed at providing a throughout understanding of why implementing the WEF is essential for human well-being, poverty alleviation, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The webinar will provide the audience with the opportunity to engage in a final discussion with the…
Virtual Regional Consultations (Africa) for the implementation of the United Nations Environment Assembly Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance will take place from July to September 2020.
The consultations will obtain feedback on the governance of extractive industries. More specifically, and as requested by the UNEA-4 resolution, the consultations will identify best practices…
This course is organized by the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) agencies UNIDO, UNEP, UNDP, ILO, and UNITAR in cooperation with the Central European University (CEU).
In many countries, industrial production and consumption patterns outpace the renewal capacity of natural resources and governments' capacity to manage waste products. These trends in resource use and energy…
Indigenous peoples, today, are arguably among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of people in the world, yet they are the best custodians of nature. More than a quarter of the global land area is traditionally owned, managed, used or occupied by indigenous peoples, and some of the world’s most biodiverse areas are found within their lands. Therefore, their traditional knowledge is…
The GEO for Cities Advisory Committee, co-chairs and author teams met in Abu Dhabi for a writer’s sprint to work towards producing the first-order draft of the four main chapters of the report.
Meeting objectives:
Review the overall status of the chapters and obtain feedback from the Advisory Committee Address all comments received from the Advisory Committee’s internal review Move…
UN-DESA organized a 3-day workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia on the findings of the GSDR and how these findings could be used to accelerate action on sustainable development in the region. UNEP was invited, as a member of the Task Team of the GSDR, to assist with facilitation of the sessions of the workshop on the Environment Commons entry point The session opened with remarks from officials of…
Around the world, young people possess the passion and potential to create solutions for the world’s toughest challenges—including climate change. Focused on the connection between localized learning and collective action, this webinar will build awareness around the issue of climate change, provide applicable skills and recommendations, and better equip young leaders and changemakers to take…
Pierre Boileau (Head, Global Environment Outlook) was invited to present to the 10th annual Earth System Governance conference in Oaxaca, Mexico. The conference was co-hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a number of other co-sponsors. More than 300 academic researchers in environmental policy gathered to present papers and discuss difficult issues related to the…
Inception meeting objectives:
1. Update Steering Committee members on the rationale and details of resolution UNEP/EA.4/RES.23 and lessons learned from the GEO process, in particular as it pertains to the preparation of GEO-4, GEO-5 and GEO-6.
2. Consider and approve the main issues to be reviewed in the options document;
3. Consider and approve the work plan and timeline…
The First Authors Meeting for the GEO-6 for Cities took place in Vancouver, Canada from 14-18 October 2019. This meeting saw a number of authors attend to meet the following objectives.
Meeting objectives:
Familiarize the authors with the GEO process, logistics and procedures. Allow for brainstorming on overall strategy on completing the chapters Provide orientation session for all…
Under the theme of ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People,’ the sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) is an integrated assessment which considers various scientific perspectives and inputs from across the world in a holistic manner. The assessment urges the world’s decision makers and all citizens to apply the principles of sustainable development to help ensure that Earth’s environment remains…
The Inception meeting of the Advisory Committee for GEO for Business was held on 24 September at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Headquarters in Paris, France. The objective of the meeting was to review the draft work plan and timeline for delivering the publication, its annotated outline and develop a potential list of authors that would write the publication…
The Third face-to-face meeting of the GEO for Youth authors was held at the Vienna International Centre, Wagramer Strasse 5, 1220 Vienna, Austria.
The Meeting Objectives were;
• Reduce the amount of text in each chapter to about 5000 words, in order to ensure a concise and focused product.
• Advance the chapters to their second order draft stage, including completed…
Inception meeting objectives:
Prepare a draft annotated outline of GEO for Cities document including structure, main points; Confirm draft work plan of GEO for Cities, including overview and context, timeline, anticipated impact, anticipated outcomes, project design, risks mitigation measures; Suggest prospective authors from different institutions, considering gender and geographic…Showing 1 - 10 of 20
