In Malawi, investment in renewable energy has helped grow a dried fruit business that’s giving women financial freedom and new opportunities.
Gender
The meeting of the high-level political forum on sustainable development in 2018 convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council will be held from Monday, 9 July, to Wednesday, 18 July 2018.
EDD 2018 will focus on ‘Women and Girls at the Forefront of Sustainable Development: protect, empower, invest’, and will take place on 5-6 June in Brussels.
The DEVCO Environment Week took place from 6-10 February 2017. Two back-to-back seminars were organised: from 6-8 February, ‘DEVCO Thematic Seminar on Environment - Implementing the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’; and from 9-10 February, ‘Conservation, development and security’ (co-organised with DG ENV and EEAS).