By ASviS On 9 March, in a historical move, the Italian Constitution was modified, adding to its fundamental Principles the protection of the environment, of animals and of future generations. The Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS) advocated long for this reform and welcomed this development. The contents of the reform were analysed in an […]
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By WWF Europe On 2 and 3 June, the Stockholm +50 conference took place in Sweden, marking 50 years since the first UN conference on the environment, considered to be the birth of environmental multilateralism. The side-event ‘Wellbeing Economies: A new economic approach for human and planetary health‘ organised by the European Environment Bureau (EEB), Wellbeing […]
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By Housing Europe While the majority of the REPowerEU Plan’s objectives can only be implemented in the medium to longer-term, Housing Europe believes that now is the time for affordable and social housing providers to be enabled to supply vulnerable tenants with the energy produced in their buildings. Housing providers have the experience of supporting people […]
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By SDG Alliance The SDG Alliance is an informal group of like-minded MEPs from different committees and political groups across the European Parliament. Members of the Alliance believe the SDGs should be at the centre of policymaking in the European Parliament and the EU. The SDG Alliance was launched in 2021; it includes 26 members, […]
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By Make Mothers Matter At MMM, we salute the courage of all people living in conflicts and war zones that are destroying lives as we speak in so many parts of the world. The brutality and devastation they bring about have profound and long-lasting effects on us, particularly children. When fathers are at the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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