About

The United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD), supports the UN Member States in planning and implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through knowledge sharing, capacity development, policy advisory, research, and partnerships with a particular focus on Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and Landlocked Developing States (LLDCs). UNOSD was established in Incheon, Republic of Korea in 2011 by the United Nations and the Government of the Republic of Korea. UNOSD is part of the Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).

[Read more about the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development]

 

 

The “2024 SDGs Youth Summer Camp” will be held at the Global Green Growth Institute located in Seoul, Republic of Korea from 20 to 23 August. The summer camp will focus on the plastic pollution crisis. The participants will understand how to contribute to ending the plastic pollution crisis through reduce, reuse, recycle, reorient and diversify and managing the plastic pollution legacy and develop ideas for policies to help end the plastic pollution crisis.

UNOSD will co-organize the National Wetland Inventory Training Programme Module 1: Introduction to National Wetland Inventories at the National Institute of Ecology located in Seocheon, Republic of Korea from 8 to 13 September 2024 with the Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands to support UN Member States and the Convention’s Parties to gain knowledge and know-how on how to undertake a National Wetland Inventory within an appropriate policy, scientific and technical framework.

UNOSD will organize the 2024 Sustainable Development Transformation Forum from 29 to 31 October 2024 in Incheon, Republic of Korea. The 2024 SDTF will open with a reflection on the outcomes of the Summit of the Future and the themes of the 2025 HLPF, framing the Forum within the current international framework and the latest scientific thinking.