The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the United Nations’ annual global platform for following up and reviewing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. This year’s theme is...

Stockholm+50 is a major international environmental meeting that will be held from 2-3 June 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden. This high-level meeting will contribute to accelerating a transformation that leads to sustainable and green economies, more...

IGES will collaborate in the Third Global Conference on Strengthening Synergies between the Paris Agreement and the SDGs to be held on 20 and 21 July, and co-convened by the UN DESA and UNFCCC Secretariat. In order to achieve both the 2030 Agenda...

This year, the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in June and Group of Twenty (G20) Summit in October will be convened in Elmau, Germany and Bali, Indonesia, respectively. With the strengthening of interdependence between countries around the world and...

The final approval of the implementation guidelines for the Paris Agreement at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change last November has prompted a phase in which countries will be required to...

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is the first and most comprehensive intergovernmental agreement on biodiversity. CBD-COP15, the 15th Annual Meeting was initially scheduled for last year, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was...