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The non-profit think tank 2° Investing Initiative (2DII) launched a new research program that aims to integrate future risks and challenges, notably those related to climate change, ecosystem service loss, and social resilience, into financial processes and regulations.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is looking for a technical institution partner to support a responsible and sustainable mining and metals sector to achieve the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals in the Context of the Green Recovery.

The Green Industry Platform convened a workshop on 20 May 2021, bringing together leading experts to address how to help drive small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) towards improving resource efficiency in their day-to-day operations and throughout supply chains.

The Anatomy of Action (AoA) and GO4SDGs are disseminating the 3-day social media challenge #MadeinAfrica that engages organisations, global influencers and the public to encourage their communities to make sustainable lifestyle changes.

In the wake of World Environment Day, the Graduate Institute and UNEP are proud to announce the launch of their new partnership, the Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), to support dialogue and action on trade policies to address urgent global environmental crises and advance implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Call for Abstracts for the World Resources Forum (WRF) 2021 is open until July 1st.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and The Yield Lab Institute aim to identify AgTech Startups, with a scalable business model, that can tackle some of the most pressing issues of climate change in agri-food systems in the Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC).

UNEP/EA.4/Res. 19 on Mineral Resource Governance requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), on the basis of reports such as those prepared by the International Resource Panel, UNEP/GRID-Geneva and GRID-Arendal, to, inter alia, collect information on sustainable practices, identify knowledge gaps and options for implementation strategies...

The Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) initiative was launched in the Africa region on 11 May 2021 in a virtual event organized by the United Nations Environment Programme’s Regional Office for Africa. The event brought together high-level participants from the public and private sectors from 35 countries –...

The world’s economy predominantly relies on gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of economic health and prosperity. But the natural assets that underpin this economic growth – soil for crops, vegetation-absorbing carbon dioxide and water for drinking – are often unaccounted for in economic modelling. To improve recognition and accounting of nature in policy and economic decision-making, a review on the economics of biodiversity, led by Sir Partha Dasgupta of the University of Cambridge, asks that we change our model to one that measures inclusive wealth.