SDG17 Partnerships for the Goals
Side event on “Fast-Tracking the SDGs: Driving Asia-Pacific Transformations”
co-organized by ESCAP, ADB and UNDP
7 JULY 18:30 – 19:45 (GMT+7)
https://www.youtube.com/unescap
This webinar entitled “How Space Technology Applications Contributed to Combating COVID-19 Pandemic” will be held on Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 10:30 – 12:00 hrs. (UTC+7, Bangkok time).
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as the world reels from the compounded effects of lockdowns, travel bans, and the ensuing economic and food crises, the need for accurate and verified information is essential to combat the virus, and potentially lifesaving. Unfortunately however, misinformation has spread with vigor rivaling the virus in its spread and contagiousness.
The Toolkit is prepared to jump-start activities by providing practical knowledge to educational campuses about the activities to be carried out in campus related to SDGs.
Community engagement is essential to ensuring the sustainability of mini-grid projects and enabling communities to reap the full benefits of electrification, including improved livelihoods, health benefits, new employment opportunities, empowerment of women, and more.
IDEAL has launched the Food Security COVID-19 Learning Series, which aims to convene USAID's Office of Food for Peace-funded development and emergency activity implementers to share among peers their experiences, the challenges they are encountering, and practical approaches for adapting programming in light of COVID-19.
The "Korean Civil Society Contribution Report for 2020 HLF" was written to respond to the High-level Political Forum (HLPF), July 7-16, 2020 in New York, USA.
This event features senior investor representatives discussing: Is demand for green bonds rising in Asia? What types of investors are looking to buy green bonds in Asia? What is the longer term outlook for Asian green bonds? What do investors think of the Asian green bonds issued to date?
The One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn) is a collaborative initiative of more than 30 multilateral organizations supporting countries to design and implement systematic, recurrent and results-oriented climate change learning. The initiative was launched at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit.