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The Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) initiative, launched last year by UNEP together with strategic partners, will address the lack of food waste data in the Global South, by providing capacity building on the Food Waste Index methodology, enabling coherent measurement and comparable data across countries, and facilitating regional collaboration on measurement issues, strategy development and food waste action.

The recent Baltic Circular Procurement Congress highlighted the leading role of public procurers in driving forward the movement towards circular economies.

Increased demand for mineral raw materials has led to an urgent need and a political momentum to improve mineral resources governance and sustainable infrastructure. The outcome of these activities will be reported to the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5), to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, in February 2021.

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Unleashing potential of digital finance could have transformational impact on sustainable development says group of financial, business, government and development leaders convened by the UN Secretary-General.

The GEO-LDN Competition is an international technology innovation competition to design and build software analytics solutions to support more transparent and well-informed land use decisions at the local to national level across the globe.

The 3Returns Framework not only accounts for economic benefits, but also considers environmental, human and social capital when it comes to investing in mangrove forest restoration in the Ayeyawardy Delta.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) will apply and customize the Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) methodology for quantifying and valuing natural capital provided by the Kagera River and the surrounding ecosystems in Northern Tanzania. We will pay particular attention to how natural capital can be affected by hydropower developments. For this purpose, we are seeking baseline data and studies on natural capital/ecosystem services/biodiversity value along and derived from that section of the Kagera River.

The world’s seventh largest economy based on GDP doesn’t belong to a single country, and isn’t even on land, yet it’s valued at around $3 trillion annually, and supports the livelihoods of more than 3 billion people.

A new product from the Global Opportunities for SDGs (GO4SDGs) initiative offers policymakers, industry players and civil society a range of tools to help support countries accelerate the transition to inclusive green economies and sustainable living.