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The Gender Aspect of the E-Mobility Transition: An Innovative Collaboration in Kenya Highlights New Ways to Bring Women into the Sector

James Militzer

Around the world, many governments, companies, academic institutions and others are recognizing the need for more sustainable mobility solutions, based on electric power instead of gas-burning internal combustion engines (ICE).

UNEP 111
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Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET) at the UNFCCC Africa Climate Week 2023

Sustainable Development Network

CEET members convened at the Africa Climate Week to discuss low carbon energy and green technology pathways for economic development in Africa. Every year, RCWs will be held across the regions of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East and Northern Africa.

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Here's the secret to cooling India’s buildings

Corporate Knights

Officials from the India Meteorological Department attributed the length of the unrelenting heat wave, ironically, to what is commonly seen as a marker of urban “development”: a boom in (heat-trapping) high-rises. R icha Narvekar is an independent academic and architectural designer based out of Toronto and Goa, India.

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Sink, Swim or Adapt

Chris Hall

The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) 2023 Emissions Gap Report – aptly titled ‘Broken Record’ – clearly states that the world is a long way from limiting global warming to 1.5°C Twenty-four percent of assessed countries said they have developed a NAP, and 46% intend to do so in the near future.

UNEP 92
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Nature Map Consortium presents global maps to help governments operationalize targets for biodiversity conservation and restoration

Sustainable Development Network

Nature Map has been prepared by teams from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), International Institute for Sustainability (IIS) Rio, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), and UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), with the support of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

UNEP 52
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The Data Countries Need Now: Outcomes from Data For Now’s Inception Workshop

Sustainable Development Network

This week, representatives from eight very diverse countries (Bangladesh, Columbia, Ghana, Mongolia, Nepal, Paraguay, Rwanda, and Senegal) convened in Kigali, Rwanda to discuss priority data needs; specifically, the kinds of timely (even real-time) data they need to effectively track sustainable development. What’s Next?

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SDSN September 2017 Events Summary

Sustainable Development Network

This workshop was made possible with the generous support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). This year’s conference theme was The World in 2050: Looking Ahead for Sustainable Development.