Be a part of the largest business-focused event taking place during the annual Conference of Parties (COP22) – the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2016 – taking place on 14-15 November at the Four Seasons Marrakech, Morocco. Building on year-round work from Climate Action and the UN Environment Programme, the 2 day Forum will convened cross-sector participants from business, …
Keynote speakers include: Jyrki Katainen, European Commission Vice-President Anton Stredák, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic More information: ThinkForest website
Klea Morianou, manager at UN SDSN – Greece and general administrator at ICRE8 participated in the 1st the Stakeholder Engagement Event of the European funded H2020 project ICARUS – “Integrated Climate forcing and Air pollution Reduction in Urban Systems”. The event was organized by the Environmental Engineering Laboratory (EnvΕ-Lab) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.) …
UN SDSN-Greece participates in ICARUS H2020 project 1st Stakeholder Engagement Event Read More »
The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in collaboration with the University of Warwick and the University of Malta have the pleasure to invite you in the closed workshop on “Crossing the Mediterranean by Boat: Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences”* “Crossing the Mediterranean by Boat: Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journeys and Experiences” …
Tune in Monday, November 7 at 12:30pm CEST for a live webinar with Aromar Revi, Director of the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), India’s prospective independent national University for Research & Innovation addressing its challenges of urbanisation. Aromar will continue the conversation on urban sustainability from Habitat III and speak about his upcoming course, Sustainable Cities. Join as he talks about his passion for cities, how he came …
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The World Ocean Council’s Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS) 2016 features a Plenary Session focusing on the SDGs and What They Mean for Ocean Industries. The global ocean business community will gather at the World Ocean Council (WOC) Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS), Rotterdam, 30 Nov-2 Dec, to advance industry leadership and collaboration in ocean sustainable development. With …
Ocean 2030: Sustainable Development Goals and the Ocean Business Community – SOS 2016 Read More »
Seven years of crisis and austerity in Europe are placing great strain on the European project. In Europe’s nature, life goes on: Greece hosts a unique ecological treasury, which is threatened by increasing pressures for rapid but unsustainable growth and environmental deregulation. Greece’s debt can hardly be deemed sustainable and is crippling for the prospects …
We hope you will join us in celebrating the Paris Climate Agreement’s entry into force on November 4th by participating in a social media thunderclap! Just click here and a Tweet and Facebook post will be scheduled from your account and released worldwide at the same time! There is also a UNFCCC Newsroom article about the …
Say with a thunderclap: “All systems go!” for the Paris Agreement on climate action! Read More »
EFI info pool is now at our service! EFI info pool is a platform for EFI and its network to share news about funding calls relevant for the forest sector, capacity building opportunities, useful meetings to attend, etc. The service is exclusively offered to EFI Member Organisations. If your organisation isn’t registered to EFI Info Pool …
Join the SDG Academy this Thursday for an interactive discussion on communicating sustainability in an age of Trump, Putin and Twitter. Dr. Michael Shank, Head of Communications for the SDSN, will lead the virtual discussion by taking questions from the audience and pulling from his decades of experience in media. The discussion is open to the public and …
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ICRE8 senior researcher and Assistant Manager SDSN Greece Dr. Achilleas Vassilopoulos participated in the workshop “The implementation of sustainable development goals in Local Governance” organized by the Development Company OTA, ANATOLIKI SA in cooperation with the Municipality of Thessaloniki, on October 17, 2016 with a presentation on Sustainable Consumption and Production Watch the video of the …
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All 17 SDGs set by the UN are linked with the mobile industry. The mobile ecosystem added $ 3.1 billion to the global economy in 2015. Read more
The SDSN Greece-Youth first official meeting took place on October 4, 2016 at ICRE8, one of the co-hosting institutions of SDSN, in Maroussi, with great success. Many university students and some NGO volunteers attended the event and committed to help empower the youth network of SDSN Greece to create sustainable solutions. At the beginning of …
The “Entrepreneurship in Higher Education and Research Commercialization”, was organized by AUEB in collaboration with the Embassy of Israel the EC and OECD on Entrepreneurship in Higher Education and Research Commercialization at the Athens Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation – ACEin on Tuesday 20 September 2016. ICRE8 participated in the event session on Academia-Industry Links …
ICRE8 Presentation of UN SDSN Academia-Industry Links at the ACEin Read More »
ICRE8 senior researcher and Assistant Manager SDSN Greece Dr. Achilleas Vassilopoulos chaired a session on “Sustainable Development in a changing world” in the International Workshop on “Analytical tools to evaluate the impact of public policies on Sustainable Development Goals”, held on September 27th, 2016, at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Milan headquarter, Italy. In September 2015, the adoption …
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Corso Magenta 63, Milan In September 2015, the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations, as the Millennium Development Goals follow-up, defined broader and more ambitious development targets for both developed and developing countries, encompassing all sustainability dimensions (economic, financial, institutional, social and environmental). These goals will …
SDSN’s online education initiative SDSNedu is now the SDG Academy! The SDG Academy is a virtual platform that provides high-quality online courses. Our global faculty comprises leading experts in sustainable development from around the world who believe in the power of sharing knowledge to improve the lives of everyone. All course materials are available free of …
SDSNedu has transformed into the SDG Academy to build on our mandate to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Here is the SDG Academy Trailer:
The 4th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development is today and it will be broadcasted through live streaming, all day, on the SDSN YouTube channel and Periscope! The aim of the conference is to identify and share practical, evidence-based solutions that can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year’s conference theme is Moving Forward: The …
Live streaming of the 4th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development Read More »
The SDSN published its first ever SDG Index and Dashboards – Global Report on July 20th 2016. To mark the occasion, our partner Bertelsmann Stiftung created a short film on the event. You can watch the video here: The video features interviews with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, as well as Aart …
Short Film and Interviews from the SDG Index & Dashboards Launch Event Read More »
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