The United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) will be organizing 4 side events during the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain in between 2 to 13 December 2019. The side events will be part of the SDG Pavilion hosted by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) to provide an interactive space where policymakers and other stakeholders can share ideas and best practices to leverage tangible action for climate action and sustainable development.
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The United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD), established in 2011 in Incheon, the Republic of Korea, supports U.N. Member States in planning and implementing sustainable development strategies, notably through knowledge sharing, capacity development, research, training and partnership building. The Office is managed by the Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), and supported by Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea, Yonsei University and Incheon Metropolitan City. [Read more about the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development]
- Division for Sustainable Development Goals, UN DESA
- Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea
- Yonsei University
- Incheon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea
The 2nd GHG Inventory System Training Workshop will be hosted by UNOSD and the Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (TGO) from 13 to16 January 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop is an updated version of last year's workshop which will gather government officials, experts and professionals in the field to provide necessary skillsets to operate GHG inventories, estimate GHG emissions on a national level, and facilitate general understanding of climate change policies and the 2030 Agenda for the SDGs.
UNOSD will organize 2019 Sustainable Development Transformation Forum (SDTF) in Incheon, Republic of Korea from 22 to 24 October 2019. This year's SDTF will focus centrally on what it will take to achieve the fundamental transformations in energy, industrial, food and other systerms needed to shift courses from a Business-as-Usual path.