Sustainable Development Goals
Applications open for third round of Funding for Collaborative Data Innovation Projects
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the World Bank Development Data Group are pleased to announce that applications are now open for a third round of support for innovative collaborations for data production, dissemination, and use. This follows two previous rounds of funding ...
World Bank’s new country classifications by income level
According to the newest World Bank’s classification, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam are Lower Middle Income countries while Thailand is Upper Middle Income.For the current 2019 fiscal year, low-income economies are defined as those with a GNI per capita, calculated using the World Bank Atlas ...
The SeaWeb Seafood Summit 2019
Thailand in partnership with SeaWeb will host the SeaWeb Seafood Summit 2019 during 11 – 13 June 2019 in Bangkok. The Summit will be a platform for sharing experiences in the sustainable seafood industry among relevant agencies including representatives from the public sector, private sector, ...
Asia and the Pacific Regional Expert Workshop on Ocean Accounts
Based on our Assessment of capacity development needs of the countries in Asia and the Pacific for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, the region needs strengthening of technical capacity, coordination, governance, data and statistics, awareness, stakeholder engagement and partnerships.To facilitate this conversation, ESCAP ...
54th Meeting of the GEF Council and 6th GEF Assembly
The 54th Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council will take place from 24-26 June 2018, immediately prior to the 6th GEF Assembly. The GEF Assembly meets every four years, and on this occasion from 27-28 June 2018. Both the Council meeting and the ...
Conference IBCCS: “Individual Behavior, Climate Change, and Sustainability” – Call for Papers
Sustainability and climate change are recurrent questions that attract the interest of both policy makers and academic researchers. Mekong Development Research Institute (MDRI), Centre for Research in Economics Applied to Globalization (CREAM) – University of Rouen Normandy, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) are ...
5th International Marine Conservation Congress
The Society for Conservation Biology’s International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC, #IMCC5) brings together conservation professionals and students to develop new and powerful tools to further marine conservation science and policy.dates: 24-29 June 2018location: Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysiawww: https://conbio.org/mini-sites/imcc5/Please visit here for more details ...
Policy Report Calls for Data Management to Localize SDGs in ASEAN Cities
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) released a policy report on how “frontrunner” cities in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries are localizing the SDGs. The report notes that, while national governments are incorporating the SDGs into their development plans, the SDGs must ...
Adam Fishman
ASEAN Sustainable Energy Week 2018
ASEAN Sustainable Week (ASE) is ASEAN’s Largest and Most Comprehensive International Exhibition & Conference on Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency & Environmental Technology. With almost 30 years of experience in the industry and success in delivering business opportunities, ASE 2018 is considered a ‘must-exhibit’ event for companies ...
The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: an all-new visual guide to data and development
World Bank has just released the 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals. With over 180 maps and charts, the new publication shows the progress societies are making towards the 17 SDGs.It’s filled with annotated data visualizations, which can be reproducibly built from source code and data. You can view the SDG Atlas ...
