Category: UNGA

Tracking Wildfires from Space

Trace how trends in carbon emissions, temperature, wind, drought, and humidity paint a picture of today’s wildfires and suggest a path for curbing this dangerous extreme weather phenomena in the future.

Roundtable Discussion: Community understanding and trust as a driver for vaccine acceptance in Africa

This roundtable discussion contemplates the development of a trust framework, how actors and institutions, national governments as well as local organizations would utilize this framework, and how it will impact their success in achieving equitable vaccine delivery and uptake in the future.

#NextGenerationIsNow: How Young Leaders are Increasing Access to Contraception

Join Girl Up, the Guttmacher Institute, Pathfinder, and Women Deliver at the launch of the #NextGenerationIsNow Campaign to hear from young leaders about the solutions needed to bolster young people’s access to contraception around the world.

Official UN General Assembly Side Event: Progress and Multisector Action Towards Achieving Global Targets to End TB

The side event will review progress towards reaching global TB targets, advance multisectoral action and accountability, and discuss preparations for the 2023 UN High Level Meeting on TB.

SDG Moment

The meeting will convene leaders from over 30 Member States as well as champions for the SDGs from civil society, the private sector and international partners.

The Tipping Point: The State of the Amazon & the Bioeconomy Future

Assessing the risk of the climate tipping points in the region, and the paradox between the Amazon’s extraordinary socio-biodiversity and its distance from the scientific, technological, and market frontier of the contemporary bioeconomy.

Toward Effective Development Co-operation: Bringing Everyone to the Table to Leave No One Behind

At its upcoming annual forum, the Business Call to Action (BCtA) is partnering with the Global Partnership for a session on the Kampala Principles —a set of five mutually reinforcing principles for making private sector partnerships for development co-operation more effective

Peer Learning Forum: Climate Action – Engaging Your Leaders

Hosted by Business in the Community (BITC), this event is an opportunity, in this peer learning format, members will share lessons learned and challenges they have faced in engaging leaders.

Launch of UN Women’s Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice

UN Women’s Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice: a visionary and practical roadmap for a gender-responsive recovery from COVID-19.

Advancing a just transition to a circular economy: Scaling up individual action to collectively drive systemic change – a WCEF2021 Accelerator Session

This session builds on two sessions that were held in April 2021 at the WCEF+Climate that focused on the importance of integrating decent work in effective collection of electronics and plastics.