Processes
IAEG-SDGs 2016 Report back: Marisa Viana’s Summary
Marisa Viana (RESURJ) compiled her summary on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the 4th meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs), h [...]
Women’s Major Group COP22 Summary
"Members of the Women’s Major Group were active in Marrakesh at COP22, working to implement climate commitments and to make linkages to the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At [...]
ESCAP SDG Week: Understand key challenges for effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is promoting a week discussion to understand the key challenges for effective implementation of the Sustainable D [...]
COP 22: Tetet Lauron’s notes on Action, Action everywhere but nowhere
Expectations that this annual meeting of the world’s leaders will set the wheels into motion on the Paris Agreement (PA), last year’s landmark deal on climate do not seem likely as huge disagreemen [...]
COP 22 Side Event: Land Use and Climate Change: Corporations or Communities? Time to Choose
If you are in Marrakech at the COP 22, please join the Side Event hosted by Global Forest Coalition, Friends of the Siberian Forests, Movement Strategy Center and the Grassroots Global Justice &am [...]
COP 22 Marrakech, UN Climate Change Conference 2016
"The 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) will be held in Marrakech, November 7 to 18, 2016". Check out key gender events [...]
Habitat III “New Urban Agenda”
The Women's Major will be at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development - Habitat III. "Habitat III is the first United Nations global summit after the adoption of th [...]
Why the Women’s Major Group is disappointed with a man as UN SG again
Statement by members of the Women’s Major Group on the appointment of the new Secretary General of the United Nations: The Women’s Major Group of the UN Agenda-2030 process (WMG), has received the [...]
The role of the WMG in VNR to HLPF: Lessons learned from 2016 and how we can engage for 2017
The Women’s Major Group is holding a Webinar on the role of the WMG in National Voluntary Reviews to HLPF: Lessons learned from 2016 and how we can engage for 2017. Join us on Oct 11, 2 [...]
IUCN World Conservation Congress: The Role of Nature Conservation in achieving the SDGs
Save the date: The Women's Major Group invites those attending The World Conservation Congress from the 1-10 September, 2016 in Hawai'i, to join our Organizing partner Isis Alvarez (Global Forest Co [...]