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Hangout to take stock of first year post-Rio+20
On 13 June 2013, to celebrate the first anniversary of Rio+20, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) organized a Google+ Hangout to evaluate the progresses achieved to date and the...
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World Centre for Sustainable Development launched in Rio
The first anniversary of the United Nations-Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, has been marked today with the launch of its legacy: an international centre of excellence in sustainable...
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A year on from Rio + 20: where are we in Wales with Sustainable Development?
This time last year, leaders from across the world signed up to The Future We Want, the global agreement following discussions at the UN Sustainable Development conference, better known as Rio + 20....
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Sustainable Development Challenges
The world is faced with challenges in all three dimensions of sustainable development—economic, social and environmental. More than 1 billion people are still living in extreme poverty, and income...
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A Dynamic Dialogue for Sustainable Development Goals
Photo Credit: © United Nations/ UN DESA Major Groups and other stakeholders will have an intersessional meeting with members of the Open Working Group on sustainable development goals on 22 November,...
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Weaving a Single Thread for People and Planet
Photo Credit: UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform The General Assembly’s Open Working Group will come together for its fifth session from 25 to 27 November in New York, to discuss sustained...
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Fifth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
Photo credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe The Fifth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Conference Room 3,...
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Call for leveraging Africa’s potential for the good of all people
Photo: UNMIL/Christophe Herwig The world must do more to unleash Africa’s full potential in agriculture, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said while also urging the continent’s...
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International community commits to Global ICT Agenda for 2020
Photo: UN Photo/Mark Garten A global agenda to shape the future of the ICT sector has been unanimously adopted at the ITU 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-14). Resolution WG-PL/9 ‘Connect 2020...
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UN Global Compact Builds Momentum for Agribusiness and SDGs
Photo: UN Photo Stakeholders in global agribusiness have welcomed the United Nations Global Compact Food and Agriculture (FAB) Principles. Since their launch on 22 September 2014 at the United Nations...
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Looking ahead at the UN Sustainable Development Summit
Credit: Photo by Albert González Farran From 25-27 September 2015, over 150 World Leaders are going to attend the UN Sustainable Development Summit at UN headquarters in New York. The new sustainable...
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