Tree planting has become the latest craze in helping to tackle the climate crisis. Earlier this year business and political leaders from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to U.S. President Donald Trump have pledged to plant billions - even trillions - of trees across the planet as a quick fix for runaway carbon emissions and degraded landscapes. Plant trees, save the planet.
This year we celebrate the first ever observance of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. It also comes during the global COVID-19 pandemic, that has brought about a global wake-up on the need to transform and rebalance the way our food is produced and consumed. Reducing food losses and waste is essential in a world where the number of people affected by hunger has been slowly on the rise since 2014, and tons and tons of edible food are lost and/or wasted every day. Food loss and waste also puts unnecessary pressure on the natural resource base and on the environment, depleting the natural resource base and generating greenhouse gases.
Tackling food loss and waste is essential for the health of the people and the planet. On this International Day, FAO Brussels invites you to discuss solutions to the food loss and waste issue and highlight the importance of working together across all actors. Register now to attend the dialogue. High-level speakers from the European Union, the United Nations, social impact organizations and the private sector will interact with the audience and answer your questions.
This two-day workshop aims to provide a summary of the main findings of the project on two of the domains studied: the impact of innovative private investments, and the impact of developments in artificial intelligence and digitalization.
he Advanced Technologies for Industry (ATI) project merges the indicators from two major EU initiatives, the KETs observatory and the Digital Transformation Monitor. In addition, the project implements the result of the project ‘Towards better monitoring innovation strengths, regional specialisation, and business trends in support of industrial modernisation in the EU’ namely its shortlisted indicators (30 in total). Besides the inherited indicators from previous initiatives the project also generates indicators via surveys and novel data sources (company websites, crunchbase and linkedIn). The indicators compose the data repository of ATI.
On 25 September at 18:30 CET, Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič will co-host a virtual event on the humanitarian impact of combined conflict, climate and environmental risks, co-organised by the EU and the Kingdom of Belgium. The event is organised in the margins of the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
New York – To coincide with the 75th UN General Assembly, and leading up to the UN Biodiversity Summit, UNDP, UNEP, CBD and partners are creating a four-day Nature for Life Hub — a virtual space where global and local leaders will share stories on the importance of nature for sustainable development.
The Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) is pleased to announce the first session of a LIVE TALKS SERIES on "Risk Management for Agri-SME Finance" co-organized in collaboration with the Smallholder and Agri-SME Finance and Investment Network (SAFIN) and the International Labour Organization (ILO)'s Social Finance Programme. The event will take place on 24 September 2020. The series is co-hosted by SAFIN and the Forum for Agricultural Risk Management in Development (FARM-D).
PANEL DISCUSSION: A focus on EU-Africa – Partnering for food security.
The aim of our Webinar Series is to bring together international experts and scientists to share their knowledge on the development, study, and use of Composite Indicators and Scoreboards. Indices aggregate multi-dimensional concepts into a simplified one.
The social, economic, and political consequences of the COVID-19 crisis will go far beyond what we have already experienced, as many societies around the world witness a new page turn in state-society relations, as well as the changing role of technology in our lives.
AESCON (Asia-Europe Sustainable CONnectivity) is the first scientific conference on Asia-Europe sustainable connectivity, bringing together researchers and policy analysts working in the field of international connectivity, globalization and their impacts on sustainable development, with a particular focus on Asia-Europe connections.
European Research and Innovation Days is the European Commission’s annual flagship event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond.
In the context of the European Commission’s political priorities including the European Green Deal and a zero tolerance approach on child labour, the Commission will initiate an informal dialogue in support of a sustainable cocoa sector. It will build upon the initiative of the two main producing countries, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, existing initiatives of EU Member States, partner countries, and international organisations.
The 3rd International Bioeconomy Congress Baden-Württemberg 2020 will be an inter- and transdisciplinary meeting for experts and stakeholders dedicated to systemic approaches of a sustainable bioeconomy. This year's congress comes with the title “The contribution of Bioeconomy to the Green Deal” and will discuss how innovative products, processes, principles and regional circles can contribute to mitigation of climate change, reducing pollution, supporting resource efficiency and other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
By CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change and Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
The event is organized in the framework of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project “Unlocking the Potential of Bio-based Value Chains in the Baltic Sea Region” (BalticBiomass4Value), which is being implemented by 17 business, science and public sector organizations from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, and Russia.
Beyond the introduction of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), there is arguably no area more important to Africa’s economic growth and integration than the potential created by digital transformation and the advent of the 4th industrial revolution. Characterised by the junction of digital, physical, and biological systems to create a world defined by green energy, sustainable production systems and an intelligent and connected ecosystem, both Africa and Europe are at a pivotal point in time, where a transformative and shared digital agenda can prepare them to tackle their common future.
On 15 September 2020, the Global Network Against Food Crises’s partners will hold a side-event on the margins of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
This workshop brings together DEVCO Unit 04, with scientists of the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) with a view to discuss together how to further improve the index and to ensure that it is developed using the highest standards in composite indicator methodology.
