The Conference will feature an opening and closing ceremony, six plenary meetings and five multi-stakeholder interactive dialogues. It will also feature a number of high-level special events and side events organized by Member States, the UN system and other stakeholders. More info about the UN 20203 Water Conference is available here https://sdgs.un.org/conferences/water2023
The International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) 2023 will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on June 7–9. It will focus on the lessons to be learned from mature as well as emerging housing systems vis-à-vis emerging social and economic challenges across the world, with a special focus on Southern Europe and extensive participation from the rest of […]
The International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) 2023 will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on June 7–9. It will focus on the lessons to be learned from mature as well as emerging housing systems vis-à-vis emerging social and economic challenges across the world, with a special focus on Southern Europe and extensive participation from the rest of […]
Image © Muntaka Chasant, CC BY-SA 4.0 2023 is the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day. This year the host is Côte d'Ivoire in partnership with the Netherlands. Over the past five decades, the day has grown to be one of the largest global platforms for environmental outreach. Tens of millions of people take part […]
The second session of the United Nations Habitat Assembly will be held from 5 to 9 June 2023, at the UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi. The theme of the session is “A sustainable urban future through inclusive and effective multilateralism: achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in times of global crises”. HIC will attend the UN Habitat Assembly and the Board […]
How is housing policy shaped by local actors inside and outside public institutions? How do these practices respond to the housing emergency with short and long-term actions? How do they vary across the globe? What alliances are driving them, particularly between local governments and civil society? Information and Registration In order to address these and […]
This event will take stock of how the implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) has advanced and what is yet to be realized. A multi-stakeholder panel will focus on pathways to operationalizing NUA commitments through concrete examples of policies and initiatives. In this year that will see the mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda […]
The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will be held from Monday, 10 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2023, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council . This includes the three-day ministerial segment of the forum from Monday, 17 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2023 as part of the High-level Segment of the Council. The last day […]
The Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment, now called FSS+2, will take place from 24-26 July in Rome. It will be a major conference organized by the UN Secretary General, hosted by the Government of Italy and coordinated by the FSS Coordination Hub and the Rome-based Agencies. Many oft the deep concerns expressed before by the Civil […]
At the half-way mark to fulfilling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the UN “SDG Summit” is charged with igniting a correction course as the UN, Member States and numerous studies agree that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are seriously off-track and the consequences of failure affect all countries and sectors of society. Key themes […]