A Call to Action - Enabling Solutions at Speed & Scale
The Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) has been continuously working to catalyse game-changing public-private partnerships to accelerate this transition, and bring transformative solutions to a global scale.
The President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Mogens Lykketoft, will convene a high-level thematic debate on sustainable development, climate change and financing. This event is one of three high-level events the President will convene during UNGA 70. Lykketoft said on 19 October 2015 that the meeting will involve a range of stakeholders.
The Sustainability Summit 2016 will look at how short-termism dominates the global mind-set, with the need to achieve growth in the present often overshadowing critical preparations for our future. However the call for transformational, systemic change is growing louder as is the demand for a world in which our people and planet form the bottom-line of our economy. But what will serve to catalyse the shift in both policy and practice needed to bring about a sustainable future?
Lord Stern of Brentford will be joined by OECD chief economist, Catherine Mann, to discuss how countries can gain competitive advantage from the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI) (formerly Sustainable Prosperity) is a national research network and policy think tank based at the University of Ottawa, Canada. They deliver world-class research and work with public and private partners – all to advance practical policies and market solutions for a stronger, cleaner economy.
Final Workshop
The need to integrate ecosystem service assessment findings and development policies to ensure stronger linkages between macroeconomic, economic growth and poverty alleviation has been expressed during the last recent years. The focus on developing analytical framework and adopting tools and methods for decision and policy-makers to assist in mainstreaming ecosystem management approaches into development and poverty alleviation policies with close involvement of national and local stakeholders has been pursued in a series of countries.
On 8-10 June 2016 the Eighth Ministerial Conference Environment for Europe (EfE) will be held in Batumi, Georgia. UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) serves as the secretariat to the Conference.
EfE process as a political framework presents a unique partnership format of member States within the ECE region, organizations of the United Nations system represented in the region, other intergovernmental organizations, Regional Environment Centers, non-governmental organizations, the business sector and other representatives of civil society.
Adopted in 2012 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP) is a global commitment to accelerate the shift towards sustainable consumption and production in both developed and developing countries.
Sustainable consumption and production has been included as a stand-alone goal (SDG 12) of the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda, and Target 12.1 calls for the implementation of the 10YFP .