The 4th OECD Green Investment Financing Forum (GIFF)  will be held under the aegis of the new OECD Cent

Natural capital can be defined as the world’s stocks of natural assets which include geology, soil, air, water and all living things. Business leaders, government representatives and environmental experts from around the world will gather in Edinburgh this November for the third World Forum on Natural Capital. Join us for the world’s leading natural capital event. 

The meeting of the high-level political forum on sustainable development in 2017 convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, will be held from Monday, 10 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2017; including the three-day ministerial meeting of the forum from Monday, 17 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2017.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require an unrelenting focus on the environment-development nexus and a radical decoupling of environmental degradation from economic growth. This is the key message that PAGE and the government of Finland will be delivering at a side-event of the High-Level Political Forum later this month.

The 10th International Conference on “Energy and Climate Change will take place at the Kostis Palamas of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – NKUA on 11-13 October 2017, in Athens, Greece and is set under the auspices of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC). The Conference is divided into three (3) main parts.

COP23 is the informal name for the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC was adopted in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit, which marked the beginning of the international community’s first concerted effort to confront the problem of climate change. Known also as one of the Rio Conventions, the UNFCCC established a framework for action to stabilise concentrations of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere.

The World Green Economy Summit (WGES) is one of the leading global forums on the green economy. It brings together world-class experts in critical sectors from around the world to directly focus on advancing the global green economy and sustainability agenda, achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and implementing the recommendations of COP21 & 22.

The new OECD report Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth shows that integrating measures to tackle climate change into regular economic policy will have a positive impact on economic growth over the medium and long term.

A climate-friendly policy package can increase long-run output by up to 2.8% on average across the G20 by 2050 and if avoided climate damage are also taken into account, this rises to nearly 5%.

EXPO has been bringing together the world’s innovators for over 150 years, to demonstrate science and technology developments for the public to be inspired and for businesses to be discovered. EXPO is a global event that aims at educating the public, promoting progress and fostering cooperation through interactive exhibitions, live shows, workshops, conferences and more. It is the world’s largest meeting place of countries, the private sector, the civil society and the general public.

The international forum ‘Economy for a Living Planet’ will bring together national policymakers, international economists and sustainable development experts and business and public sector leaders from Europe and Asia. 

This forum will offer possible solutions on how a multilateral world can successfully transition to a green economy, navigate the current multitude of political and economic crises, and ensure attainment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.