Posted on January 10, 2025 McMaster University has been granted an organizational accreditation to attend The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development Conference to be held in Sevilla, Spain between 30 June-2 July 2025. This conference aims to address new and emerging issues, and the urgent need to fully implement the Sustainable Development Goals, and support reform … Continue reading McMaster is granted organizational accreditation for the United Nation’s 4th International Conference on Financing for Development Conference in Sevilla, Spain
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January 10, 2025 Through dedicated work of Office of International Affairs (OIA), in partnership with Planetary Health, the Office of Sustainability, the Department of Family Medicine, and CMPA, McMaster University made significant contributions to the global climate dialogue through engagements and discussions with stakeholders participating at the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations … Continue reading Reflections from COP 29 and Ambitions for COP 30: A Journey Toward Climate Action
Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, The UWI Source: UWI News The United Nations University at the sitting of its Governance Council on December 7, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan, unanimously appointed Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, its new Chairman/Chancellor, effective May 2025. Noting that Sir Hilary has established a global reputation as a strategic planner in higher education, … Continue reading Sir Hilary appointed Chairman/Chancellor of the United Nations University
New emissions target will guide climate action over next decade Source: CBC News. Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault announced Canada's new 2035 emissions target on Thursday. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press) Inayat Singh · CBC News · Posted: Dec 12, 2024 Canada will cut carbon emissions 45 to 50 per cent below 2005 levels by 2035, the federal … Continue reading Provinces need to do more to cut emissions, feds say, while announcing Canada’s new 2035 climate target
Source: CDB The equitable transition to energy efficiency and renewable energy is slowly progressing in the Caribbean but greater buy in and investment from the private sector, more large-scale projects attractive to investors and increasing the technical capacity of the practitioners especially among women and girls is necessary if the region is to improve the … Continue reading CDB and Global Affairs Canada partner to put the spotlight on the “Supporting Resilient Green Energy Programme” and the Caribbean energy transition
The Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity (DBRP) will officially launch on Friday, November 22, 2024, at the Eon Nigel Harris Council Room, The University of the West Indies (The UWI), from 9:30 a.m. local (Jamaica) time. This milestone event marks a transformative step in advancing sustainable and resilient development in the Caribbean, Pacific, Africa, Latin … Continue reading The UWI hosts launch of Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity
Peyman Naeemi Mark Terry Edited by Lindsay MacAdam November 19, 2024 York University has been promoting the essential role higher education plays in addressing climate challenges at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan from Nov. 12 to 22. Nearly 200 nations … Continue reading York U advances role of universities in tackling climate issues at COP29
The Guardian, by Fiona Harvey, November 16, 2024 Leaders of the world’s biggest economies meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Monday must agree to provide the finance that the world’s poorest need to tackle the climate crisis or face “economic carnage”, the UN has warned. The G20 nations are about to gather in Brazil for … Continue reading UN warns of ‘economic carnage’ if G20 leaders cannot agree on climate finance for poor countries
September 21, 2024 New York City, United States of America Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participated virtually in a meeting of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates group, convened by the Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres. Prime Minister Trudeau and the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, co-chaired the meeting and … Continue reading Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in a meeting of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Advocates group
After almost two years of finalising its operational procedures and negotiations, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is set to launch its first-of-its-kind global online graduate business school focused on leadership within the context of supporting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On Wednesday, Aug. 21, the launch event will be hosted … Continue reading UWI’s new online Global SDG Graduate School launches