The 2nd IPBES Capacity Building Forum took place in New York on 23 September 2016. 

During the technical session of the IPBES* Capacity Building forum in the morning, participants discussed the Capacity Building Rolling plan at length. Apart from the IPBES Chair, the Secretary and IPBES taskforce members and members from the technical support units, various UN organizations and other stakeholder groups attended the meeting.

With the approval and start of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), with support from the government of Brazil, has recently held a Regional Symposium on the Integrated Approach for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Centre for Environment Education (CEE) Ahmedabad, India organized an International Conference on ‘Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) for Transforming Education for Children and Youth’ on 16-18 September, 2016 to discuss best practices of engaging youth in both formal and non-formal settings.

The Climate Chance Summit, the first meeting of its kind, specifically focused on non-state actors’ contributions to greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reductions and adaptation to climate change, was held on 26-28 September in Nantes, France. Among the 3,000 participants were city governments, sub-national governments, NGOs, the private sector, and universities.

RCE Greater Western Sydney (GWS) organized a two-hour Roundtable on ProSPER.Net at Western Sydney University (WSU) on October 4, 2016.

Prof. Mario Tabucanon, Researcher at UNU-IAS, provided an overview on ProSPER.Net development, its progress and networking activities.

RCE Greater Western Sydney is organizing a ProSPER.Net Roundtable at the University of

More than 6,000 researchers, educators, students, and citizens from Japan and abroad will meet during two Sustainability Weeks in Hokkaido. During the last two weeks in October, the latest scientific knowledge on sustainability will be discussed in different symposia, workshops and showcased in exhibitions. For more information visit: http://sustain.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/sw/2016/

In an effort to step up the contributions of the global RCE network beyond the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), and in order to strengthen its capacities towards implementing the SDGS and the priorities of the Global Action Programme on ESD, it is necessary to protect the integrity of the global RCE network and to promote the quality of practice, consistent with the principles of good governance.

If your school is in South East Asia and has implemented activities to reduce energy consumption within the school, you are invited to participate in the 2016 SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award. This will give you the opportunity to be recognised as a model of best practices in Energy Conservation and to promote ESD across South East Asia. Deadline for submission is 25 November 2016.

The three winners of the 2016 UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD are:

1) the Centre for Community Regeneration and Development (CCREAD-Cameroon) from Cameroon, a youth-lead programme which targets children, youth, women and indigenous groups in marginalized, hard-to-reach communities

2) the Okayama ESD Promotion Commission from Japan, involving 240 organizations which show a highly unusual systemic and city-wide approach to ESD