Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking Enters New Phase of Growth

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The United Nations University Centre for Policy Research has appointed Daniel Thelesklaf as the Head of Secretariat and Project Director of the Liechtenstein Initiative for Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST), and welcomes a new partnership with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) that will support the growth of FAST over the next three years.

Call for nominations: UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development 2021

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UNESCO has launched the call for nominations for the 2021 UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Generously funded by the Government of Japan, the Prize will award three prizes of US $50,000 to exceptional projects and programmes in the field of Education for Sustainable Development.

Finland Takes Top Spot in 2021 Chandler Good Government Index

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SINGAPORE, 26 APRIL2021 — The first Chandler Good Government Index (The “CGGI”, or the “Index”) launched today in Singapore. It is the world’s most comprehensive index of effective national government. It has been designed, by the Chandler Institute of Governance, to show the importance of investing time and energy into enhancing the skills of public servants and the structures they operate within

ISTR Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 8-10 December 2021, Sabah, Malaysia.

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Hosted by the Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy, the conference will be focused on "Active Civil Society: Post-crises rebuilding, mobilising and innovating"

Sport for Sustainable Development: Designing Effective Policies and Programmes

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Explore the ways in which sport can actively contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals and other objectives.

The Rights Studio Festival ( 01 April – 29 April 2021)

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The Rights Studio Festival is a series of digital events and artistic content to be showcased throughout April 2021, presented by The Rights Studio in collaboration with CRIN. The festival is an invitation to play with, break with and reshape how we engage with the rights of children and young people, and marks the official launch of The Rights Studio.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama and 100 other Nobel Laureates urge cooperation at Climate Summit to stop fossil fuel expansion

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"Climate change is threatening hundreds of millions of lives, livelihoods across every continent and is putting thousands of species at risk. The burning of fossil fuels – coal, oil, and gas – is by far the major contributor to climate change."

Bertrand Piccard's Solar Impulse Foundation readies 1000+ profitable Solutions to fix climate change

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Four years after announcing the goal of identifying 1000 clean and profitable solutions to the environmental crisis, Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Foundation have officially achieved their target and commit to go even further.

The economics of climate change: Swiss Re

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"Climate change poses the biggest long-term risk to the global economy. No action is not an option.By mid-century, the world stands to lose around 10% of total economic value from climate change. That is a real scenario if temperature increases stay on the current trajectory, and both the Paris Agreement and 2050 net-zero emissions targets are not met, according to new Swiss Re Institute research"

CCPI 2021 Press Conference

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The annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), published since 2005, is an independent monitoring tool for tracking the climate protection performance of 57 countries and the EU. The CCPI aims to enhance transparency in international climate politics and it enables comparison of individual countries’ climate protection efforts and progress.

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