The MAVA Foundation is a Swiss-based philanthropic foundation, founded in 1994 by the late Dr. Luc Hoffmann. The MAVA Foundation conserves biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature by funding, mobilising, and strengthening its partners and the conservation community. It is active through five programmes: Mediterranean Basin, West Africa, Switzerland, Sustainable Economy, and Impact and Sustainability.

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) will hold Global Green Growth Week 2017: Unlocking Africa’s Green Growth Potential (GGGWeek2017), on October 17-20, 2017, at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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%.