EVENT FROM STIMSON CENTER: Beyond the Horizon: Outlining Risks and Opportunities in 2024 (stimson event)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 11Jan
Join us as Stimson’s foreign policy experts predict the biggest issues to watch in 2024. Through a series of panel discussions and quickfire examinations, we will highlight the most volatile and urgent issues of the new year, identify meaningful opportunities, and help set the agenda for foreign policy priorities in 2024. January 24, 2024 9:30 - 11:30 AM
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CREATIVE FUTURES from FORD FOUNDATION

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 29Dec
CREATIVE FUTURES is a series of 40 provocations by thinkers across the spheres of arts and culture, documentary film, and journalism unfolding throughout the fall of 2020.
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Greening the Blue report 2020

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 29Dec
The 2020 Greening the Blue report -released on 10th December 2020 provides a snapshot of the UN System’s environmental impacts throughout 2019 and the activities underway to reduce them.
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Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene: The human right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia (The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, RWI)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 29Dec
"For the first time in human history, people are collectively modifying the Earth’s environment and ecosystems on a global scale. Some scholars suggest the world is entering a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which Earth systems are moving into a risky and unstable state as a result of people’s impacts on the environment" says the report.
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NEW REGULATIONS TO REDUCE WASTE PLASTIC DUMPING ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 29Dec
The Guardian is reporting on an amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal aiming at allowing developing countries to have a say on the waste plastic they receive for recycling. The amendment to the convention will come into force from the 1st of January 2021.It will take few years to see an impact though.
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RSF’s 2020 round-up: 50 journalists killed, two-thirds in countries “at peace”

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 29Dec
A total of 50 journalists were killed worldwide in 2020, according to the second part of the annual round-up of abusive treatment and violence against journalists, published today by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). While the number of journalists killed in countries at war continues to fall, more are being murdered in countries not at war.
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Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) are releasing a landmark publication on illegal border pushbacks in the EU.

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 23Dec
The ‘Black Book of Pushbacks’ brings together a wealth of evidence on these violations, analysing in detail the way that these brutal acts have become systematised at the external border and renewing calls to end impunity for perpetrating EU authorities.
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2020 RCE Awards for Innovative Projects on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 23Dec
RCE refers to the Regional Centers of Expertise on Sustainable Education and are localized partnerships to promote sustainable development.
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Asia-Pacific Mayors’ Academy Highlights Sustainable Urban Development During Opening Session

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 23Dec
Asia-Pacific Mayors’ Academy Highlights Sustainable Urban Development During Opening Session. Mayors talked about innovative solutions to advance SDGs focused local planning
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Recommitting to Women’s Health 25 Years after the Beijing Platform for Action on Women: What Must Governments Do?

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 23Dec
This piece written by the leaders of WHO, UN Women and United Nations University respectively, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka , David M. Malone, advocates for a holistic agenda for women’s health, focused on Investing in women’s health, an imperative for building a more inclusive future.
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