EVENTS/Sustainable Brands ’16 Copenhagen

Through an innovative program of collaboration and information, Sustainable Brands ’16 Copenhagen seeks to provide inspiration, tools, and partnerships to drive business success and positive impact. Join us for plenaries, breakouts, workshops, the Activation Hub, and numerous networking events where you will discover how brands and business leaders are Activating Purpose with sustainability-led innovation to create scalable impact AND profitability. 

Copenhagen, Denmark 

September 26-28

Join nearly 500 global business leaders by attending breakout sessions, workshops, plenaries, evening events, and co-create sessions at SB’16 Copenhagen to share ideas and discover how to mobilize your brand to succeed in the new economy.

Find detail-rich case studies, practical know-how and specific implementation tips to accelerate your business success. Plus, more importantly, find the partners and solutions providers who can help you along the way. Sustainable Brands is home to the global community of courageous optimists who are reshaping the future of commerce worldwide – connect with them in person this September at SB’16 Copenhagen.

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EVENTS/Convergences World Forum - Investing tomorrow's sustainable cities and territories

Since its launch in 2008, the Convergences World Forum has become a key event for all the professionnals who seek innovative solutions to fight poverty in the world. The Forum offers experts and decision-makers a space for learning, networking and high level sharing to build answers together to the social and environmental challenges both in northern and southern countries. Every year, the Convergences World Forum is the culmination of the work of  the Convergences platform for thought and gathers more than 7000 attendees in Paris.

The 9th edition of the Convergences World Forum inventing tomorrow’s sustainable cities and territories will take place on September 5th, 6th and 7th 2016 in Paris.

Experts and actors from the private, public and solidarity-based sectors will gather to share, debate and reflect around three themes:

Towards sustainable cities and territories

• Territories in transition
• The food, water and energy nexus
• Economic activity, land-use planning and mobility

Meeting the new Sustainable Development Goals

• The challenges of education and interculturality
• Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
• A new approach to humanitarian aid

An economy serving the Common Good

• Synergies between business models and economic actors
• Participative and collaborative social models
• Socially impacting financial tools

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Convergences World Forum - Investing tomorrow's sustainable cities & territories

EVENTS/International Union for Conservation of Nature Congress- IUCN

September 2016 in Hawaiʻi, top government officials, CEOs and civil society leaders will come together with leading scientists and experts from the field to define the path to a sustainable future.

Learn - Discover new solutions, strategies and inspiration. Share - Show your leadership, position your organisation and expand the possible. Network - Build new partnerships, connect with experts, inspire new opportunities. Influence - Shape new policies, engage decision-makers, elevate ambitions.  

IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together.

Created in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources and reach of more than 1,300 Member organisations and some 16,000 experts. It is a leading provider of conservation data, assessments and analysis. Its broad membership enables IUCN to fill the role of incubator and trusted repository of best practices, tools and international standards.

September 1 to 10 - 2016

Honolulu, Hawai’i

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EVENTS/14th International Congress of Educating Cities - IAEC

Living together in our cities

The theme that Rosario proposes to the IAEC for the XIV International Congress of Educating Cities 2016, is at the core of our beliefs, our values and our daily work: building fairer cities focusing on coexistence, solidarity and respect for diversity, emphasizing the value of equality of opportunities and social integration as the founding principles to this end.

The city is a complex space that harbours both spontaneous and planned or structured relationships. These relationships may be fluent or fragmented, and express the different dynamics that are the foundations of common and shared codes and display the coexistence of different, diverse and unequal times and identities.

June 1 to 4 - 2016

Rosario, Agentina 

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14th International Congress of Educating Cities  

EVENTS/UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2016

The UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2016 (22-23 June 2016, New York) will provide a dynamic stage to jump-start business action everywhere on the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The SDGs address the most important economic, social, environmental and governance challenges of our time, providing a clear and compelling direction for the future. Agreed by all UN Member States, these new global goals are set to be a major driver of the markets of tomorrow and can unleash a wave of sustainable products, services and business innovations.

At the Summit, we will outline the journey ahead to turn global goals into local business and leaders will jointly identify opportunities for action and innovation around the SDGs. 

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EVENTS/The 5th GRI Global Conference

The 5th GRI Global Conference will be held 18 – 20 May 2016 at RAI Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Join GRI and up to 1,500 sustainability leaders from around the globe to exchange leading-edge knowledge on sustainability best practices, innovations and trends that are empowering sustainable decisions and changing the world.

The 5th GRI Conference will create an inclusive platform to inspire and engage a truly global network of sustainability leaders.

GRI has pioneered sustainability reporting in the late 1990’s and has since become the globally accepted standard for enabling business, governments and other organizations to understand and communicate their impacts on critical sustainability issues. As we move towards a new era of sustainability, it is clear that for information to truly empower decision making it must be more accessible, comparable and available in real time. GRI’s focus at the 2016 Conference is to deliver innovative sustainability content that embraces this new era, enable capacity building, networking, and peer-to-peer learning.

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Plenary Sessions

18 May

20 years on: are we making a difference?

19 May

Innovation for Sustainable Development: The role of private sector collaboration

19 May

Using Sustainability Data to Enable Transformational Change

20 May

Trust & Transparency: Building better businesses & policy worldwide

EVENTS/20th EMAN Conference - EMAN - CSM

The Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network (EMAN) in association with the Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) at Leuphana University Lüneburg are pleased to announce the 20th EMAN conference on measurement, assessment, reporting and management of corporate environmental and social impacts and performance.

The jubilee conference is designed to review, discuss and extend existing research on environmental, social and sustainability management accounting. This unique event aims to foster collaboration between academics dealing with different accounting, reporting and communication topics and with practitioners to enhance participative research.

To read click here:  21 - 23 September, Lüneburg, Germany

Events/2016 International Conference on Sustainable Development

The aim of the conference is to identify and share practical, evidence-based solutions that can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The ICSD provides a unique opportunity to bring together stakeholders from government, academia, the United Nations, international agencies, NGOs, and grassroots organizers to share practical solutions towards the achievement of more sustainable and inclusive societies.

September 21–22, 2016 Lerner Hall, Columbia University

This year’s International Conference on Sustainable Development will be the most important and historic yet! Not only will the science and policy be at the cutting edge; the conference will take place on the eve of the historic UN Summit on Sustainable Development, when the Sustainable Development Goals will be adopted. ICSD will host students from around the world, top scientists, and world leaders from politics to government to the UN. I urge everybody interested in sustainable development — the great challenge of our age — to come to ICSD. Alas, space is limited, but we’ll pack in all that we can!  Professor Jeffrey Sachs. 

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EVENTS/Green Week 2016 EU

The 2016 edition of Green Week, the biggest annual occasion to debate and discuss European environment policy, will take place from Monday, 30 May to Friday, 3 June. It will focus on the theme "Investing for a greener future".

Investing is about more than money. It's about creating jobs and taking people out of unemployment. It's about ensuring our children breathe cleaner air on their way to school, it's about using raw materials and resources more efficiently, it's about preventing waste, and much more besides. The registration system is now open for events at The Egg in Brussels. Click here to create an account or to login.

The registration system is now open for events at The Egg in Brussels.

EU

30 May to 3 June 2016

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EVENTS/New Cities Summit to Lead Urban Tech in Montréal 2016

The 2016 edition of the New Cities Summit brings together Urban Tech leaders from around the world. Montréal’s vibrant entrepreneurial spirit, animated public spaces and unmatched cultural scene make it the perfect backdrop for our global conversation on the challenges, opportunities and best practices of the cities of the future.

What are the first trends in the age of Urban Tech? Where are the centers of urban innovation? What do urban startups and social entrepreneurs need to succeed? What role can established players have in this urban disruption? How can the public sector galvanize and make use of this wave of innovation? What are the pitfalls to be avoided?

The 2016 edition  
Montréal on June 21-23

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EVENTS/World Economic Forum on Africa 2016

There is widespread agreement that Africa needs to craft new approaches to trigger structural transformation. According to the Africa Competitiveness Report 2015, services are playing an increasingly important role in African economies; yet the share and value of services in regional and global trade are very low. In today’s increasingly connected world, with internet penetration at 26%, an integrated digital transformation strategy for Africa is imperative. Thus, the 26th World Economic Forum on Africa will address the following main sub-themes:

• Governance & Institutions
• Finance & Growth
• Human Development & Entrepreneurship 

Kigali, Rwanda 11-13 May 2016

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EVENTS/The 2016 Strategic Innovation Summit: Affordable Communities Everywhere

The Summit 2016 will examine housing solutions from the perspective of “ e Doctrine of the ree D ́s – Dignity, Durability, and Delight,” developed by Prof. Vijay Govindarajan and Jack Wilson at Dartmouth College. The agenda will build upon this framework, identifying relevant parameters that define each “D” relating to affordable and sustainable communities. To further the conversation, Summit participants will be allowed to dive deep into questions concerning the efficient development, management, and evaluation of existing and proposed projects launching around the globe. 

June 3 - 4, 2016

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Hosted by the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center Harvard

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The Innovators Forum 2016 

Insight from the 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit at Harvard

Urban Age Shaping Cities Conference

The Urban Age ‘Shaping Cities’ conference at the 2016 Venice Biennale will investigate how people, institutions, policymakers, investors and designers affect the physical form of cities, and how this impacts on the way we live in cities. It will expose the arguments behind the major conflicts on how cities are planned, governed and designed, and investigate the impact of large and small-scale solutions on urban integration. 

Conference dates: 14-15 July 2016

Location: Venice, Italy

Partners

Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft 

La Biennale di Venezia  

UN Habitat

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Habitat III - United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development - UN Habitat - 2016-10-17

New Urban Agenda 

Habitat III Conference has the convening power to bring together all actors to achieve these objectives. Solutions for the complex challenge of urbanization can only be found by bringing together Member States, multilateral organizations, local governments, private sector and civil society.

To read click here: Habitat III - Quito, Ecuador 2016-10-17

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