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Youth from all over the world can apply until 31 August 2018 for the 2018 Global Youth Video Competition. The initiative, which is in its 4th edition, aims to highlight, through videos, climate action being taken by youth.

On 13-14 March 2018, partners of the Green-win project met stakeholders from around the world at Casa Convalescència of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) for the final conference of the project on Actions for climate: Narratives, win-win solutions and climate finance.

Economics for Nature is a six year programme focused on ensuring that nature has a voice in economic and planning processes. The GGKP is part of the core team alongside the Green Economy Coalition (GEC), The Scottish Wildlife Trust, Finance Watch and WWF-France.

The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and Festival for the Earth have launched the 2018 Best Climate Solutions Award for innovative projects and ideas to communicate climate change in education, advocacy and media production.

CLARA (Climate forecast enabled knowledge services) - a Horizon 2020-funded innovation action - has issued an open call for participation in the Multi-User Forum established in the context of the CLARA H2020 innovation action.

The UN Environment Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System has launched its final global report, Making Waves: Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development. The report highlights opportunities to align the financial system with sustainable development, as well as pathways to success.

The Regional Environmental Centre for Сentral Asia (CAREC) Launches Student Research Competition on Sustainable Resource Management in Central Asia and Afghanistan. The deadline to apply is 25 May 25 2018.

A new working paper from the GGKP Working Group on Behavioural Insights outlines steps that decision makers can take to ensure effective planning of behavioural interventions for green growth and presents case studies on initiatives that aim to achieve behaviour change in sustainable consumption and resource use.

Resource Watch is an open-data solution to help people everywhere monitor the planet’s pulse, uncover insights and take action for a more sustainable future. It includes over 200 global data sets on topics ranging from food insecurity to electricity access, and overlay them to find previously unexplored connections.

Commitments to conserve peatlands in the Congo basin were announced on Friday, 23 March 2018 as the Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia signed the Brazzaville Declaration at the third meeting of the Global Peatlands Initiative, involving IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, UN Environment and partners.