The Annual Responsible Business Gala happening on 11 July 2016 is our partner's - Business in the Community - biggest calendar event, bringing 1600 guests from businesses, communities, NGOs, government and media together to celebrate and inspire with the best examples of businesses creating a fairer society and more sustainable future in the UK and abroad.
End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. Whoa. The Global Goals are important, world-changing objectives that will require cooperation among governments, international organizations and world leaders. It seems impossible that the average person can make an impact. Should you just give up?
No! Change starts with you. Seriously. Every human on earth—even the most indifferent, laziest person among us—is part of the solution. Fortunately, there are some super easy things we can adopt into our routines that, if we all do it, will make a big difference.
We’ve made it easy for you and compiled just a few of the many things you can do to make an impact.
Climate change is the defining issue of our age. The landmark Paris Agreement reached last December commits all countries to holding global temperature rise to “well below 2 degrees Celsius”. This feat will require economy-wide global and national transformations. A robust, multi-sector response will be a key component of this solution to pivot societies toward a more sustainable future for all – the future we want.
Rock in Rio-Lisbon is back to Parque da Bela Vista on the 20th, 21th, 26th, 27th and 28th of May 2016. In addition to the musical that will celebrate the 30 years of the event, the organization will also launch of a book collection and a movie inspired by the history of the festival, expected to hit the cinemas in the spring of 2016.
The Energy Efficiency Global Forum - EE Global - is an invitation-only opportunity to join hundreds of executives and policymakers from across sectors, disciplines, and borders. The energy efficiency elite will convene in Washington, D.C. for two days, 11-12 May 2016, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, with a goal of advancing the productivity and profitability of energy efficiency.
The One Young World Environment Summit is the first One Young World event to focus solely on environmental challenges and the role young leaders can play in solving them. 500 young leaders will be joined by experts from science, politics, the arts and business at Biosphere 2 in Arizona, 19 – 21 May 2016.
Connect4Climate partner, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido CarliApril - LUISS, will host a series of six Academic Gym talks to promote awareness on sustainability and its positive economic effect. Healthier consumption and lifestyles to create new jobs, fight global warming and pollution efficiently, and create social justice.
A record number of countries are expected to sign the historic climate agreement adopted last December in Paris at a signing ceremony hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 22 April.
More than 130 countries have confirmed that they will sign the Paris Agreement on 22 April, the first day that the agreement will be open for signature. This would surpass the previous record of 119 signatures for an opening day signing for an international agreement, set by the Law of the Sea in Montego Bay in 1994. In addition, more countries have informally indicated that they will sign the agreement, with the numbers increasing rapidly each week.
Over 60 Heads of State and Government will attend the ceremony, including French President François Hollande, demonstrating the continued high level of engagement by world leaders to accept and implement the Paris Agreement.
The signing ceremony will mark the first step toward ensuring that the Paris Agreement enters into force as early as possible. The agreement will enter into force 30 days after at least 55 countries, accounting for 55 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, deposit their instruments of ratification or acceptance with the Secretary-General.
A number of countries have also indicated that they will deposit their instruments of ratification immediately after signing the agreement on 22 April.
The 22 April signing ceremony will also bring together leaders from civil society and the private sector to discuss efforts to boost financing for climate action and sustainable development, and to increase actions that would achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting average global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
“Paris was historic,” the Secretary-General said. “But it’s only the beginning. We must urgently accelerate our efforts to tackle climate change. I encourage all countries to sign the Paris Agreement on 22 April so we can turn aspirations into action. ”
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Information on the 22 April Signing Ceremony can be found at www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/climatechange
Media accreditation for the Signing Ceremony event ends 8 April. For information, see http://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/confirm.shtml
For further information, please contact Dan Shepard, tel 1 212 963-9495; email: shepard@un.org
The 8th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns, the flagship conference on local sustainable development in Europe, is taking place from 27-29 April 2016 in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
