News

The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) is currently accepting applications from interested countries to join the Partnership.

The World Economic Forum’s Scale360° initiative announced today the 10 city-based hubs joining its Circular Shapers programme. Scale360° leverages innovation hubs in cities, countries and regions worldwide, bringing together leaders in science, policy and business to trigger circular change.

This July 23 event will reveal how these leaders implemented pilot initiatives over 6-months that made their cities more circular--innovating, collaborating and bringing about grassroots change. The event, livestreamed at this link, will celebrate these Global Shapers, announce new cities joining this pilot program and share how the one-of-a-kind, tested Scale360° Circular Innovation methodology leverages design-thinking to bring about local change for global circular impact.

ICLEI and Taoyuan City invite local and regional authorities, start-ups and civil society organizations to take on the EcoLogistics challenge and submit a short-term pilot project addressing sustainability in last-mile logistics that highlights innovative approaches and partnerships.

AfDB and GGKP have launched a Request for Proposals (RfP) to identify a technical partner to apply robust natural capital methods, support data collection and generate convincing results to influence infrastructure decision making in African development finance, in particular an AfDB project in Madagascar and Mozambique.

Mohan Munasinghe, a senior adviser with the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP), has been awarded the 2021 Blue Planet Prize in recognition of his pioneering work in solving global environmental and sustainability problems, which is considered equivalent to an “Environmental Nobel Prize”.

SEED announced the winners of the SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development (SEED Awards), at the UN’s High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).

The hashtags #MadeInAfrica and #AnatomyofAction recorded a reach of 3.3 million, with 1,000+ social media posts and stories spanning the continent.

SEED piloted a new Lab format together with the GO4SDGs platform: the SEED Regional Practitioner Labs for Policy Prototyping. The Labs showcase innovative, breakthrough policies and policy programmes, the Labs were based on the theory of change that replication is an effective and efficient way to solve similar problems across geographies.

In a high-level online session earlier today, a coalition of governments and organizations, led by the United Kingdom (UK) and India, launched the new Clean Energy Ministerial’s Industrial Deep Decarbonization Initiative (IDDI). Coordinated by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), this ground-breaking effort aims to create market demand for low-carbon industrial materials, especially more sustainable steel and cement.