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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 […]

Do not miss the Fifth IAERE Annual Conference Call for Papers – Submission Deadline: November 18, 2016. The Conference, organized by the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (IAERE), to be held at the University of Rome Tor Vergata on February 16th-17th, 2017. For more information click here.

Watch the short video of the Policy Workshop on “Climate Change Mitigation and Poverty Reduction: Trade-Offs or Win-Win Situations?” hosted by the European Commission, Brussels, last June, 14th, 2016. The event was jointly organized by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Directorate I (Climate Action and Resource Efficiency) of DG Research and Innovation, and the German

Around the world, people are calling for a new kind of globalization. The current version, once called the Washington Consensus, has delivered economic growth but at enormous cost: rising inequalities of income, massive environmental destruction, and growing lawlessness. The search is on for a new approach, sometimes called sustainable development, to ensure that economic growth

The new SDG16 Data Initiative, unveiled at the UN in New York during the High-Level Political Forum, showcases currently available data on all SDG16 targets from a variety of official and nongovernmental sources. The global data compiled and presented on the SDG16-DI website were selected by specialists from the fourteen independent organizations which collaborated on this new initiative.

On July 15, 2016, the SDSN, Ford Foundation, the Office of the Mayor of New York City, and 100 Resilient Cities co-convened a workshop on SDG localization. The workshop provided an opportunity to reflect on a range of practical tools to support implementation, including a new SDSN guide for cities getting started with the SDGs. Jointly developed by

The #SDGIndex launch brought together 150 UN diplomats, academics, private sector professionals, non-profit representatives and sustainability conscious citizens. The report prepared by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the SDSN helps countries get started with implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The event was broadcasted live on social media and mentioned in various media outlets.

The Hellenic Energy Regulation Institute has released its latest Newsletter, covering the most important developments in the Greek and EU Energy market. This month’s issue highlights the following topics: ·         EU Energy Law at the Crossroads: The ‘Athens Conference on European Energy Law and Policy’ ·         EU Environment Ministers

The UN Statistics Division just released the first official SDG progress report, available here: http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2016/ It provides a quick overview of aggregate progress on all of the goals and features regional groupings – which could be useful for your networks! The underlying database that was also released yesterday, featuring country by country data for available SDG

The SDG Index and Dashboards Report were launched by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Bertelsmann Stiftung, on July 20, 2016. According to Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, “this is a crucially important time in humankind’s quest for peace and prosperity on a healthy planet. Last year’s agreement by the General Assembly on the

The Mediterranean Sustainable Development Solutions Network (MED Solutions) was launched on July 3-5 2013 in Italy with the 1st International Conference of SDSN Mediterranean, hosted by the University of Siena while the 2nd international UN SDSN Mediterranean Conference was held again in Siena on March 5-6, 2015. The 3rd International Conference of SDSN Mediterranean, to

The 2nd annual Solutions Summit is a catalytic gathering that will take place at UN Headquarters in New York on the evening of 21 September 2016 during UN General Assembly week. The deadline to submit proposals for inclusion in the Solutions Summit is 28 August 2016, so please disseminate widely with your networks (post in your group etc)! The purpose

ICRE8 has been granted funding for the H2020 (EINFRA-2016-1) OpenAIRE project – CONNECTing scientific results in support of Open Science. The main concept behind OpenAIRE-Connect is to realize, operate, and leverage the uptake of two new services that build on and extend the existing OpenAIRE technical and networking infrastructure, to stimulate a technical and cultural

Professor Andreas Papandreou (UoA, ICRE8) represented UN SDSN Greece in the UN SDSN Mediterranean General Assembly, which was held in Rome, at CRUI, Piazza Rondanini, on February 16. He made a presentation of SDSN Greece and submitted to the assembly the progress that has been made on the organization of the 2016 SDSN MED Conference, to be held in

Prof. Phoebe Koundouri (ICRE8, AUEB, LSE), in her capacity as Co-Chair of United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) Greece, participated in the SDSN Leadership Council Meeting at Columbia University and various other meetings of the UN Sustainable Development Summit, 23-25 September, 2015, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA, where the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030