By Caritas Europa The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has a big impact on everyone, but it especially affects the most vulnerable in our societies. In Europe, it has increased the challenge to meet SDG 1 – End poverty; people experiencing poverty are enduring exceptional hardship. A minimum income is the last safety net for people without […]

By European Disability Forum European leaders came together at the high-level European Regional Disability Summit on international cooperation for the first time. The event took place on 8th February 2022 under the auspices of the Global Disability Summit.   The event welcomed 20 high-level speakers and had three excellent moderators—stakeholders from the European Union, United Nations, organisations […]

By SOLIDAR On 28 February, the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report titled “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability“, which examines the impacts of climate change on nature and people around the globe and underlines the urgency of immediate and more ambitious climate action, focusing on equity and justice. […]

By The Movement For Community-led Development What does the Zero Pollution Action Plan involve specifically? It is a very broad topic and difficult to define, but one of the key objectives is to encourage and  promote inclusion of pollution prevention in all relevant EU policies. Other key elements of the plan  include addressing inequalities in […]

By The Movement For Community-led Development The UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) announced an expansion of its initiative for  identifying standards to help advance the SDGs. The ‘Portal on Standards for SDGs’ was initially  launched in 2018 with 1,600 standards linked to five SDGs and now includes 20,000 standards  addressing all 17 SDGs. According […]

By The Movement For Community-led Development Does competition law apply to sustainability agreements at all? EU Court rulings excluded certain measures (e.g., rules adopted by legal professional bodies) from  European competition law where “the anti-competitive restrictions in question are inherent in or  necessary for the pursuit of a legitimate objective.” However, the draft guidelines draw […]

By LAPAS This year is the “European Youth Year”. Because what the youth has to say about the future has become central, the Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation (LAPAS) and its collaborators, supported by ambassadors of the European Commission in Latvia, have been conducting local face-to-face discussions called “ESi NĀKOTNE” since January.   The discussions occur […]

By Coalition 2030   On March 22, over 100 people from environmental NGOs and community groups around Ireland joined a zoom call to learn, share, and prepare for the upcoming Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity. Coalition 2030 members: the Irish Environmental Network and Cultivate successfully designed and led the gathering with the Coalition coordinator.  At the […]