Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 22, 2015

On January 20, the SDSN, with the Governments of Mexico and Germany, hosted a side-event entitled “Tracking Progress on the SDGs: Indicators and Review Mechanisms” at the 1st session of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiations on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

According to organizers, the World Biogas Association (WBA): “The event represented a historic milestone for the Brazilian biogas industry and marked the start of the development of a National Biogas Roadmap with the support of WBA.”

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 3, 2017

SDSN and our partners hosted the following events in and around the UNGA: Meet the Networks September 17, 2017 In advance of the UN General Assembly in New York, SDSN hosted a special event at Columbia University for Permanent Representatives from the UN in New York to showcase the work undertaken by SDSN’s National and Regional Networks.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

After years of negotiation, the fund, which will launch in 2024, received pledges of more than US$700 million from countries at the event. This is well below the US$387 billion a year that developing countries need, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)’s Adaptation Gap Report.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2023

The investor-led initiative will be advised by UNEP and is backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of Cape Town and the UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). It will further attempt to identify where existing ESG data can be consolidated, so investors and corporates can align.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We’ve seen another record year of deadly, extreme weather events that are costing us lives, impacting vulnerable communities, and amassing hundreds of billions of dollars in damages. Co-hosted by AIGCC, CDP, Ceres, IGCC, IIGCC, PRI and UNEP FI. This event will be live-streamed. The work at COP27 can further support the U.S.

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Chris Hall

JULY 16, 2024

Scientists at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have now warned in a new report that many more “reservoirs of ancient, mostly uncharacterised microorganisms and viruses” could be lurking under the tundra – which is warming at four times the global average. Some of the identified risks are, unsurprisingly, environmental.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The CEET is grateful to the Council’s Steering Committee members, Gajanana Hegde, Team Leader, Regulatory Development (Energy), UNFCCC, and Chibulu Luo, Programme Manager, Sustainable Energy Hub, UNDP, for their support in the organization of this event.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2023

The report said that FIs are realising the importance of integrating climate-related risks, with the risks being divided primarily into physical and transition risks.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

According to the UN Environment Programme – Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), the finance sector has ground to make up too, albeit at least some of the responsibility for this also sits with governments. Private sector investment in nature had swollen to US$102 billion by May 2024, an eleven-fold increase on May 2022, apparently.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Every year more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) is produced across the planet, as shown in the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Global Waste Management Outlook 2024. It’s very much driven by UN SDGs and the UNEP priorities,” Mollin explained. billion tonnes. The economic cost is also substantial.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including WWF, UNEP, S&P Global Sustainable1, ISS ESG, and CHOOOSE. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a Biodiversity Risk Filter, which looks to aid companies in tackling nature-related risks. Karen Ellis, WWF’s Chief Economist.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The report also highlighted that although during the last decade the interval between mass coral bleaching events has been insufficient to allow coral reefs to fully recover, some recovery was observed in 2019 with coral reefs regaining 2% of the coral cover. We are running out of time: we can reverse losses, but we have to act now.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Sachs visited Istanbul to discuss the current state of SDG implementation with representatives of government, industry, academia, and NGOs on the occasion of the launch event of the SDG Index at Boğaziçi University, host of SDSN Turkey. A full account of the event and Prof. Following this event, Prof.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

It’s therefore vital that cities are built or renovated to be more sustainable and resilient in the face of climate change-induced extreme weather events. “As However, the focus has been on how to build back better after a climate-induced event has already occurred,” says WBCSD’s Hunziker. How strong are the materials used?

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Martha Rojas Urrego, Commissioner at the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, went one step further and stressed that there are “very clear” links between nature and climate change, but little focus is paid to their interlinkage of water.

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3BL Media

JUNE 23, 2022

In his Fireside Chat, Vincent Clerc, whose purview includes Maersk’s 750 cargo ships, offered an appropriately nautical metaphor for the current moment.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The event, held both virtually and in person at the Marriott Panama Hotel in Panama City on October 26, brought together key stakeholders to explore innovative technological solutions aimed at accelerating the decarbonization of the region's transport sector.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The ‘ Nature Target Setting Framework for Asset Managers and Asset Owners ’ seeks to provide guidance to investors in establishing targets and directing financial resources in line with the mission of the GBF, aiming to protect 30% of terrestrial and marine habitats by 2030.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SDSN will be hosting and participating in a variety of events alongside COP27. Below are the details of those events. A key question of this year’s report is: what progress has been made in ambition and action since COP26 and how can the necessary transformations be initiated and accelerated?

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 25, 2017

OSPAR, UNEP Regional Seas Programme, MSFD), national, and local scales. The HLPF session produced an official thematic review of SDG 14 and hosted a multitude of events proposing and outlining action toward its achievement. For this reason, this year’s High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) placed specific emphasis on SDG 14.

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

Analysis from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) concludes that a 45% reduction in global methane emissions by 2030 is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 Our compensation is tied to performance, including annual goals to reduce both the intensity and the number of events where methane could be emitted.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 19, 2021

SDSN and our networks hosted a number of events alongside the UN's High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). We invited our networks and the SDG community to join us at the following events, which SDSN hosted or were organized by our partners. Event summaries are below.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Sticking point – The G20 failed to agree on the phasing down of fossil fuels, leaving climate scientists and environmental campaigners frustrated amid weeks of extreme weather events around the globe demonstrating the escalating climate crisis.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 18, 2023

with UNEP Financial Initiative) and engage in dialogues with financial institutions at high-level summits and events. Identify potential key partners to be engaged in the dialogue for sustainable solutions for the Amazon and build a database of contacts. Support the establishment of partnerships (e.g.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Speaking in New York , UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen, noted that ‘30×30’ is just one of 21 elements of the draft framework, and urged governments to go beyond commitments to “hold each other and ourselves to account”. I’m not a scientist,” he said, at an event hosted by the New York Times.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Adaptation finance represents just 10% of global climate finance ( UNEP ), while investments in nature-based solutions and biodiversity remain underfunded despite their crucial role in combating climate change. Gaps in Funding for Adaptation, Biodiversity, Decarbonization, and Nature: Despite these advances, critical funding gaps remain.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It is now squarely a central and strategic risk management issue.” From voluntary to mandatory The recommendations were launched at an event at the New York Stock Exchange as part of New York Climate Week. The TNFD will now encourage and support voluntary market adoption of the recommendations.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says: “This vulnerability is driven by the prevailing low levels of socioeconomic growth in the continent. UNEP wants to see more investment diverted towards supporting African countries in meeting their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). This is the case in Africa.”.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Nature does everything.” – the words of UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson at Davos 2024 during a session exploring if the financial risks of climate change are under-priced. How did the high-profile World Economic Forum event prioritise nature? This article first appeared in Forbes.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2022

Both events have acted as catalysts for investors to intervene, said CEPB. The initiative developed a Global Tailings Portal and Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, together with UNEP and industry.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

At COP26, the FABLE Argentina team participated in the side event ' Is it possible to achieve carbon neutrality for the AFOLU sector in Argentina? ', hosted by Euroclima+ and presented their modelling results, as part of their collaboration with Argentina's government to develop its Long-Term Strategy on Energy and Climate Change 2020-2050.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

A recent UNEP report found that plastic pollution could be reduced by 80% by 2040 if countries and companies “make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies”.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“Stakeholders have been quite clear that that level of transparency is essential.” Reporting in harmony On the eve of the fourth anniversary (24 January) of the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster, the UNEP and Church of England Pensions Board (as a representative of Principles for Responsible Investment) announced the formation of an independent (..)

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2023

Further, a recent report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, showed that climate litigation is becoming an integral part of securing climate action and justice.

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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

Recent events are forcing us to consider new economic paradigms. The repercussions of these dramatic events are reverberating around the world and calling us to confront deeply entrenched weaknesses in our economic systems. This economy contains many diverse approaches to enhance efficiency, eliminate pollution and recycle waste. .

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