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Increasing Financial Action for Green and Sustainable Development
Panelists called for an appropriate regulatory and incentive framework for the private sector to increasingly invest toward achieving the SDGs, including the private sector in developing countries.
Green Jobs for Youth Pact
Noting intergenerational promises at the heart of the original Stockholm Conference, panelists discussed how to make the green economy transition fair for young people.
A Green and Climate Resilient Transformation of Agrifood Systems for People and the Planet
Transforming agrifood systems to become more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable can tackle multiple environmental issues while delivering gains for the most frequently marginalized groups.
Conversations: Generations of climate change shapers
This event focused on the role of young people and their call for action on climate change, discussing the role of power structures, decision-making processes, and intergenerational dialogues for bolder collective action.
Women on the Frontlines of Climate Change: Reports from the field and strategies for action
Stories of women's resilience in the face of environmental pressure pointed toward scalable actions that could advance gender equality and climate change resilience.
Stockholm+50 Action Agenda launch: Transforming global value chains
Three common issues emerge in a report from SEI and WBCSD on how to rapidly scale up green business practices in global value chains, with positive impacts for jobs and our environment.
Stockholm+50
Amid a global pandemic and a triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, there was a renewed sense of urgency around “implementation, implementation, implementation” at the Stockholm+50 conference, predicated on fairness and inclusion.
Global Launch – Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report 2022 and SDG7 Policy Briefs 2022
Speakers observed that these publications arrive at the half-way mark of the 2030 Agenda, as the world struggles to achieve the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on climate change, as well as grappling with COVID-19 challenges and the “triple crisis” for food, energy and financing caused by the Ukraine crisis. Marie-Louise Koch Wegter, Permanent Mission of Denmark to the UN and Co-Chair of Group of Friends of Sustainable Energy, invited everyone to “act” after reading the 2022 publications.
4th Global Session of the of the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment (UN-SPBF 2022)
Faced with the triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, participants addressed a range of issues dealing with multilateralism, including climate change, and future economic frameworks, before turning to issues that affect the daily fabric of our lives—technology, fashion, and supply chains. Leaders also shared share their vision for Stockholm+100.