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Building on its policy, industry and finance platforms, the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) rolled out at the end of 2020 a beta version of the Green Forum – an online interactive community space for professionals to share and discuss insights on a range of themes and issues in the pursuit of a sustainable economic transformation.

During this time of COVID-19, the Green Finance Platform – through a set of knowledge products – has helped the finance community articulate their unique role in this global health crisis and how they can align their efforts to maximize immediate impacts and optimize long-term outcomes.

The Green Industry Platform continues to provide sector- and country-specific technical and practical knowledge to support a green industrial transformation. In 2020, the Green Industry Platform offered technical training opportunities and stimulated discussion on how material efficient businesses can drive an inclusive, green economic recovery from COVID-19 worldwide.

AI4Cities, an EU-funded Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP), has launched its Request for Tenders (RfT).

Call for paper submissions for the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn) has issued a challenge "100,000 Stories for Climate Action" to mark the issuance of the 100,000th certificate of course completion.

UNEP invites universities, research centres, think-tanks, business associations, National Cleaner Production Centers, NGOs and other civil society organizations to submit their proposals to provide technical assistance for the GO4SDGs “SME Assessment” work stream in Latin America and the Caribbean. Proposals must be submitted in PDF format by 16 November 2020, 18.00 (EST).

The One Planet Network SPP Programme calls upon the procurement community to support change of the procurement system including legislative reform to enable the transition to a sustainable and circular economy.

The SME Climate Hub has joined forces with Oxford University to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with tools and resources to help them take climate action. Ahead of the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement signing, the freely available tools and resources are specially selected for SMEs to reduce carbon emissions, build business resilience and gain a competitive advantage, and help them achieve the Paris Agreement goals.

UNEP is looking for technical intermediaries that can act as UNEP’s implementing partners in Africa for its ‘In Tex’ project .