Join us now for the 10th Global RCE Conference, 23-25 November, 2016 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The Conference will discuss strategies to make substantial contributions to the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As 2017 will be an important year marking the mid-term of the GAP, the Conference also aims to reflect on the achievements and challenges of RCEs and discuss how we can accelerate our actions by engaging and working with local communities.

The UNFCCC announces its 2nd annual Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change. Young people of age 18 to 30 are invited to submit a three minute video about their actions to address climate change or to raise public awareness. Two winners will receive a round trip and accommodations to attend the UN Climate Change Conference in November 2016 (Marrakech, Morocco).

Deadline for submissions is 1 August 2016.

For more information click here.

The New Urban Agenda will be the outcome document agreed upon at the Habitat III cities conference in October 2016. In turn, it will guide the efforts around urbanization of a wide range of actors — nation states, city and regional leaders, international development funders, United Nations programmes and civil society — for the next 20 years. This document aims to guide sustainable urbanization globally over next two decades. This will hopefully jump-start political negotiations ahead of the Habitat III conference in October.

April 24, 2016 Kim Smith, Jamie Stamberger, and Kyoko Shiota RCE Greater Portland

When RCE Greater Portland formed its regional network in 2013, its coordinators wanted to know if there was an ideal governance structure that Regional Centres of Expertise (RCE) on ESD had discovered. With the current acknowledgement of 146 RCEs by the UNU-IAS around the world, there remains a paucity of research on whether a particular form of governance has been identified as most effective.

The IPBES task force and technical support unit on capacity-building are pleased to invite you to watch the recorded webinar in the pilot of the IPBES Webinar Series.

The webinar  "The IPBES Assessment Process" from 7 April 2016 is now online here. 

In this webinar, the IPBES task force and technical support unit partnered with Ivar Baste, IPBES Bureau member and co-chair of the IPBES task force on capacity-building.