Sustainable Development Goals
Creative Commons Global Summit 2019
The 2019 Global Summit will be held May 9-11 in Lisbon, Portugal. Join us for three days of dynamic programming at Museu do Oriente, with a special keynote evening event held at the historic Cineteatro Capitolio. The participant fee for the 2019 Global Summit is $295 USD, scholarship is available. Keep reading ...
Implementing the SDGs in a Changing World: Localization, Inclusiveness, and Investing For Impact
“Implementing the SDGS in a Changing World: Localization, Inclusiveness, and Investing For Impact” seminar will be held on October 12, 2018 in Indonesia. The seminar aims to encourage dialogue and action on the challenges faced by localities in implementing the SDGs, particularly in light of an ...
International Conference on Water Management and Climate Change towards Asia's Water-Energy-Food Nexus and SDGs 23-25
THA 2019 Internatiional Confference on Water Management and Climate Change towards Asia’s Water-Energy-Food Nexus and SDGs will be held on 23-25 January 2019 in Bangkok,Thailand. The objective is to provide a platform for researchers, scientists, practitioners, and policy makers to share and present new advances, research findings, perspectives, ...
Call for Proposals: 2018 Collaborative Data Innovations for Sustainable Development
The World Bank’s Development Data Group (DECDG), in collaboration with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), is interested in supporting innovative collaborations for data production, dissemination, and use. The collaborations should take place in low-income countries and lower-middle-income countries, and be directed towards ...
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 method, of $995 or less in ...
High-level Political Forum
The High-level Political Forum, United Nations central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, provides for the full and effective participation of all States Members of the United Nations and States members of specialized agencies. The ...
APSA 2018: Call for abstract
The 14th Asia Pacific Sociological Conference will be held at SEISA Hakone campus in Japan. The theme for this year’s conference is “Interconnections, social transformation and global mobility: a way towards the future.” By connecting sociologists across countries, it encourages presenters and attendees to share ...
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 ...
Springer: “Sustainable Development Goals Series” Book
Springer has publicized the “Sustainable Development Goals Series” book. This series on the Sustainable Development Goals aims to provide a comprehensive platform to the scientific, teaching and research communities working on various global issues in the field of geography, earth sciences, environmental science, social sciences and ...
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 ...
