Smart Campus Cloud Network Jump-Start Toolkit
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.
SDG6 Clean Water and Sanitation
Crunching Numbers: Quantifying the Sustainable Development Co-Benefits of Mexico's Climate Commitments
The government of Mexico has set a new tone in domestic political discussions by bringing forward an ambitious social and economic development agenda – putting development ambitions and people of all social and economic backgrounds in the centre of the debate.
Powwater: The Power of Water for All
Powwater is a social business, selling customizable reusable water bottles, coffee mugs, and tumblers, while reinvesting the proceeds into sustainable clean water projects around the world.
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weADAPT: Climate Change Adaptation Case Studies
weADAPT is a collaborative platform on climate change adaptation issues. It allows practitioners, researchers and policy-makers to access credible, high-quality information and connect with one another. weAdapt maintains a library of case studies, filterable by theme, networks, or key words and displayed on a map.
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International Standards for Sustainable Infrastructure: An Overview
Infrastructure commonly refers to physical facilities that provide the building blocks of a functioning society, including but not limited to transportation networks and structures, buildings and cities, water and waste-related networks and facilities, energy networks and plants, and communications networks and facilities.
Powerful women face the climate crisis in Colombia
Pasifueres is a small community of less than 1000 inhabitants. In 2010, the village flooded. Part of the problem was that the wetlands – which should have acted like a giant natural sponge during floods – were decimated. Agricultural production had left them bone dry and the waters were polluted. Without this natural buffer, lives and livelihoods were put at risk.
Ways to Walk the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Talk: The Food Perspective
This training is organized in the context of acquiring a better understanding of the integration of the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus that is essential for human well-being, poverty alleviation, and achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Earth School
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, an unprecedented coalition has come together to launch “Earth School,” which provides free, high-quality educational content to help students, parents and teachers around the world who are currently at home. Initiated by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and TED-Ed, Earth School takes students on a 30-day “Adventure” through the natural world.
Earth Day: Learn how to take climate action in your workplace!
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Earth Day movement and promote climate action in office environments, the United Nations are organizing a free webinar on practical steps to green workplace environments.
Building on the successful experience of the United Nations in greening their facilities and operations in Bangkok, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will share best practices and provide guidance on how to get started on climate action in the workplace, and what main operational areas to target.