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Time to tackle the transport sector. Durban, 6 December 2011
Posted on: 15 December 2011
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Bridging the Gap organised and held a side event in collaboration with the South African Ministry of Transport at the UN Conference on Climate Change. Experts from multilateral development banks joined governmental to discuss climate mitigation strategies at the transport sector from various countries. Presentations are available online.
International Conference on Sustainable Development 2011. Putrajaya, Malaysia, 5-7 December 2011
Posted on: 7 December 2011
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The objectives of this conference were: to provide an interdisciplinary forum on global sustainable development for practitioners and academics; to foster dialogue among stakeholders, including senior level policy makers, academics, and practitioners; to propose multidisciplinary strategies for economic, sociopolitical, cultural, and institutional changes; to allow stake holders to share their experiences and research results about all aspects of sustainable human and social development; to discuss the practical challenges encountered in promoting sustainable development and the solutions adopted; and to find global partners for future business or research collaborations. Abstracts are available for the following sessions: Social sciences and humanities; Sustainable social and human development; Sustainable development; and Human rights and good governance.
The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus: Solutions for the green economy. Bonn, 16-18 November 2011
Posted on: 30 November 2011
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The primary objective of the conference was to bring together a broad range of stakeholders from the water, energy and food sectors in an effort to improve understanding of the interdependencies and develop a joint perspective on the common challenges. Discussion focused on options and solutions as well as on enabling environments and incentives for change. The event provided a showcase for innovative solutions and help forge a common policy agenda to address the water, food and energy challenges. Its deliberations applied the Nexus perspective. This requires sectoral decisions to reflect the consequences for other objectives and exploit potential productivity and efficiency gains within every sector. Furthermore, unavoidable trade-offs between competing objectives must be entered into consciously on a well-informed basis. The objectives of the conference were to: develop policy recommendations based on multi-stakeholder consultations and adopting a nexus perspective; position the Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus perspective as a key dimension of the Rio+20 process; launch concrete initiatives to address the Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus in a coherent and sustainable way. A large amount of information is available, including presentations (access through the Programme link); and draft policy recommendations; a backgrouind paper; hot topic seminar papers; and daily summaries (access through the Documents link).
Cities in transition: 10th Metropolis World Congress. Porto Alegre, 23-26 November 2011
Posted on: 26 November 2011
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The 10th Metropolis World Congress represented a unique opportunity to exchange and establish contacts among more than 850 delegates and urban experts from more than 150 countries around the world. The event presented various solutions for governance, urban planning, participatory democracy, innovation, the fight against climate change, sustainability, peri-urban agriculture and renewable energies, and set forth the new guidelines for Metropolis for the next years. Presentations are available online under the following themes: Metropolis Women International Day; Innovative knowledge sharing in the southern countries; Urban growth and planning; Peri-urban agriculture and renewable energy; Metropolitan governance; The future of urban investing in Latin America; Cities and the third sector; Participatory democracy and citizenship culture; Integrated urban governance; urban innovation; International participatory budget experiences; Global Fund for Cities Development.
Earth System Sustainability Initiative
Posted on: 17 November 2011
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A new 10-year international collaborative project has been launched in order to provide global coordination for science to respond to the most compelling challenges facing our societies in this era of global environmental change. The initiative will deliver solution-oriented research on global environmental change for sustainability and provide support for actions towards sustainability through an integrated approach based on the active involvement of a broad range of stakeholders.
Is the EU on a Sustainable Development Path? Highlights of the 2011 Monitoring Report of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy
Posted on: 16 November 2011
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Every two years Eurostat reports on progress towards the objectives of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy, drawing on the set of sustainable development indicators available on the Eurostat website. Sustainable development. The latest report covers 111 indicators arranged in 10 chapters, which are linked to the key challenges and objectives of the Sustainable Development Strategy. This Statistics in Focus presents some of the main developments since the year 2000.
Local action for a sustainable Scotland. Edinburgh, 10 November 2011
Posted on: 10 November 2011
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The conference aimed to explore and profile a range of partnerships and practical activities that are contributing to the transition towards a low carbon, sustainable Scotland. A series of eight quick-fire presentations provided delegates with headline information on action that demonstrates integrated approaches. Presentations and videos are available online.
47th ISOCARP Congress: Liveable cities – urbanizing world. Wuhan, China, 24-28 October 2011
Posted on: 31 October 2011
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The theme of the 47th Congress is “Liveable Cities – Urbanising World, Meeting the Challenge”. This theme reflects the central problem of the acknowledged world wide phenomena of the exponential and inexorable inward flow of people to cities and the consequent rapid expansion of urban development. The city of Wuhan, with its ever increasing population base, has acknowledged the importance of this Congress theme especially with regard to learning how their particular range of urban, transportation congestion and spatial problems are being dealt with sustainably across the globe. The Congress contains four workshops exploring the major theme in terms of low carbon environments, sustainable networks, all transportation pathways including waterways, recreational provisions, heritage and the green environment. Click on “Paper platform” link on the left of the page to access papers.
Informed Cities Forum 2011: Rio+20, local performance and the role of research. Naples, 26-27 October 2011
Posted on: 31 October 2011
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This event brought together local policy makers, researchers working on urban sustainability and the representatives of the institutions behind the main European local sustainability schemes to take stock of local governments’ achievements so far and outline a new vision for local sustainability, in preparation for the Rio+20 UN conference in 2012. Presentations are available online.
Perspectives for European SD Policy & Governance in the context of recent EU policy strategies and Rio+20. Berlin, 27-28 October 2011
Posted on: 31 October 2011
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This 7th European Sustainable Development Network Workshop was hosted by the ESDN in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. In total, the workshop drew 45 participant from 16 European countries and spurred very lively discussions. A full workshop documentation, including the background paper, the workshop report, presentations, and the participant list, are online.
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