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Benin VNR 2018 Parallel Report: SDG 15.2 from a Gender Perspective
"The reduction inequalities will contribute to an improvement in the rights of women, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities to education, training and health". Read [...]
Armenia VNR 2018 Parallel Report: SDG 15.2 from a Women’s Perspective
"Not only should women’s interest in renewable energy be supported, but they should also have access to potential jobs in this new field. If women are early adopters of new technologies, they sh [...]
Paraguay VNR 2018 Parallel Report: SDG 15.2 from the Prespective of Women
"I learned that the future of the world is in our hands, in the hands of poor women. If it were up to them, we could write it off, but we are going to keep fighting". Read the VNR 2018 Shadow Re [...]
Missed the WMG webinars for the High-level Political Forum 2018? Find them below with the accompanying presentations:
All you need to know about the HLPF 2018: access the recording here and download the presentation here. SDG 7 – Energy: access the recording here and download the presentations from Daksha Vaja's [...]
WMG Webinar on SDG 7: Energy
Friday 29 June, 11:00 AM, NY time. Register here for SDG7. [...]
Women’s Major Group HLPF 2018 Webinar’s Series
SDG 7 (Energy), Friday 29 June, 11:00 AM, NY time. Register here for SDG7. SDG 12 (SCP), Monday 2 July, 11:00 AM, NY time. Register here for SDG12. SDG 11 (Cities), Tuesday 3 July, 9:30 AM, NY ti [...]
Report by the Secretariat on UN Environment Programme’s Private Sector Engagement presented to the Committee of Permanent Representatives
Dear Women's Major Group to UN Environment Programme, We appreciate your candid feedback on the Report by the Secretariat on UN Environment Programme's Private Sector Engagement presented to the [...]
Save the date: Governing Exponential and Disruptive Technologies
The current discussion about the challenge of governing exponential technological change is in line with predictions from the turn of the century that ‘converging technologies’ will unleash mul [...]
Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDG
The third annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) will take place on 5-6 June 2018. For the registration access here. [...]
AHOEEG on Marine Litter and Micro-plastics 2018: Tim Gabriel’s intervention at Item 7 Feasibility and effectiveness of different response options.
"Recognizing that the timeline of these initiatives would not be consistent with the sense of urgency on marine litter and, more specifically, marine plastic pollution, we should also invite UNEP t [...]