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.

Last year’s historic Paris Agreement and the overall trend to include climate change in the sustainable development agenda have set the direction for a broader global climate action. In line with these new developments, the World Bank Group will launch “Innovate4Climate - Finance & Markets Week” in Barcelona, Spain from May 22-26, 2017.

2017 Annual meeting of the GREEN Action Task Force

  • Date: 26-27 October 2017
  • Place: Rixos Hotel in Almaty, Kazakhstan (see the address).

The meeting will review the progress made in greening the economies of the EECCA region.

Has world economic growth become “safer” over the last few decades? Have social problems become more manageable or are we condemned to live in a world with increasing inequity? Can Europe, the first “sovereignty sharing” experiment among nation states, survive, or will it become a nail in the coffin of international cooperation?

Insights from the behavioural sciences – behavioural insights – can help policy makers obtain a deeper understanding of the behavioural mechanisms that contribute to environmental problems, and design and implement more effective policy interventions.

How have behavioural insights been used by governments to tackle environmental problems and which behavioural interventions have been shown to work in practice?

Context

The Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement have brought considerable focus on poverty reduction and climate change. Central to both poverty and climate, yet receiving much less attention is natural capital: life on land (SDG 15) and life in the water (SDG 14).

11 MAY: OECD-TEN CONFERENCE: BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY

Being Green, Consumer Centric and with well-Functioning Markets and Organisations

Behavioural insights are being used by public bodies around the world. How can the behavioural community support these efforts and what are lessons from the field? The conference will discuss these issues and also look at how policy officials can benefit from current experience and research in the following topics:  

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will host the International Conference on Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth on 23 May 2017 in Berlin.  The conference is being organised in collaboration with the German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety and in conjunction with the Petersberg Climate Dialogue. The 

The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is a policy and action research organisation. It promotes sustainable development to improve livelihoods and protect the environments on which these livelihoods are built. IIED specialises in linking local priorities to global challenges. IIED is based in London and works in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific, with some of the world’s most vulnerable people.