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“My hope for the new Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) is that the impacts will be felt mainly by vulnerable groups that are most impacted by climate change,” says Dr Shehnaaz Moosa, director of the new Dutch-Canadian supported CDKN which was formally launched on 21 June.

The 2018 European Green Capital, the City of Nijmegen (Netherlands), ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the Government of the Netherlands, PIANOo and the European Commission are pleased to announce the 10th edition of the EcoProcura Conference on Sustainable, Circular and Innovation Procurement. 

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A new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) presents an overview of the findings of four regional assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services focusing on Central Asia, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa.

Help the Natural Capital Coalition and the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) identify key ‘data barriers’ to effective natural capital assessment and decision making in the private sector by completing the the Data Information Flow Project survey. The survey is open until 6 July 2018.

Around 1,500 academics, experts and policy makers from all over the world will gather at the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE 2018) from 25-29 June in Gothenburg, Sweden to present and discuss new research in the field of environmental and resource economics and discuss how to manage global and complex environmental problems.

The OECD, UN Environment and World Bank Group have joined forces under a new initiative entitled “Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure”.

New research shows that South Africa’s transition to a low-carbon, sustainable and inclusive future is stuck in first gear, with ambitious policies on paper but slow progress on the ground.

The Government of Burkina Faso, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will co-organize a regional capacity development workshop under the theme of Financing Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) implementation in the Energy Sector in Burkina Faso on 26-28 June 2018.

Policy makers should therefore treat resource efficiency as equal in importance to climate policy if they want to move towards a sustainable future, according to a new report from the International Resource Panel.

Green growth is an imperative for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Yet many key stakeholders remain to be convinced. How can we persuade policymakers of the urgency of pursuing economic growth that is environmentally sustainable and socially equitable?