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On November 17, 50 young professionals attended the Climate Literacy & Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the American Center organized by Plastic Initiative Network. ESTH Officer Anne Sherman talked about U.S. initiatives to reduce plastic waste through improved waste management and private sector innovation.
Gabriela Cuevas Barron, Mexican Congresswoman and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Credit: Alesse Nunes
On November 17, 50 young professionals attended the Climate Literacy & Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the American Center organized by Plastic Initiative Network. ESTH Officer Anne Sherman talked about U.S. initiatives to reduce plastic waste through improved waste management and private sector innovation.
On November 17, 50 young professionals attended the Climate Literacy & Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the American Center organized by Plastic Initiative Network. ESTH Officer Anne Sherman talked about U.S. initiatives to reduce plastic waste through improved waste management and private sector innovation.
On November 17, 50 young professionals attended the Climate Literacy & Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the American Center organized by Plastic Initiative Network. ESTH Officer Anne Sherman talked about U.S. initiatives to reduce plastic waste through improved waste management and private sector innovation.
On November 17, 50 young professionals attended the Climate Literacy & Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the American Center organized by Plastic Initiative Network. ESTH Officer Anne Sherman talked about U.S. initiatives to reduce plastic waste through improved waste management and private sector innovation.
On November 17, 50 young professionals attended the Climate Literacy & Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the American Center organized by Plastic Initiative Network. ESTH Officer Anne Sherman talked about U.S. initiatives to reduce plastic waste through improved waste management and private sector innovation.
On November 17, 50 young professionals attended the Climate Literacy & Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the American Center organized by Plastic Initiative Network. ESTH Officer Anne Sherman talked about U.S. initiatives to reduce plastic waste through improved waste management and private sector innovation.
On November 17, 50 young professionals attended the Climate Literacy & Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the American Center organized by Plastic Initiative Network. ESTH Officer Anne Sherman talked about U.S. initiatives to reduce plastic waste through improved waste management and private sector innovation.
Partnerships to increase pig production in Uganda (Photo credit: ILRI\Bethelhem Alemu and Apollo Habtamu)
The SDGs aim to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030, making sure all people – especially children – have access to sufficient and nutritious food all year round.
In Central Asian countries, wheat provides more than 60% of daily calories, and a significant portion
of that wheat is imported from Kazakhstan (the world’s ninth largest producer and seventh largest exporter). Spikes in food prices have been one of the major sources of food insecurity in other Central Asian Republics, and Kazakhstan’s wheat sector was found to be highly vulnerable to climate change. In response, a UNDP/USAID project ‘Improving Climate Resilience of Kazakhstan Wheat and Central Asian Food Security’ was started in 2012 jointly with Kazhydromet – Kazakhstan’s National Hydrometeorological Agency - with the aim of improving forecasting capacities to help improve crop yields in the region.
Thanks to new software, meteorologists can issue climate forecasts for the whole season in a few seconds; over 600 farmers have been actively co-operating with Kazhydromet in order to get up-to-date weather and climate forecasts. Participating farmers have reported 20 per cent higher wheat yields on average.
On November 17, 50 young professionals attended the Climate Literacy & Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the American Center organized by Plastic Initiative Network. ESTH Officer Anne Sherman talked about U.S. initiatives to reduce plastic waste through improved waste management and private sector innovation.
GOAL 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
The SDGs promote sustained economic growth, higher levels of productivity, and technological innovation. Through sustainable, green development, the goal is to achieve full and productive employment - and decent work - for all women and men by 2030.
Montenegro, as part of a GEF-funded project implemented by UNDP in conjunction with the country’s Ministry for Sustainable Development and Tourism, is working towards carbon-neutral tourism by developing new bike routes; partnering with festivals across the country to go completely green; installing solar benches which serve as phone charging stations but also provide data on air quality, noise, temperature, and humidity; and providing a web-based carbon calculator for tourists to measure their environmental impact when visiting.
Photo credit: Taylor Rees/UNDP
On November 17, 50 young professionals attended the Climate Literacy & Sustainable Development Goals Workshop at the American Center organized by Plastic Initiative Network. ESTH Officer Anne Sherman talked about U.S. initiatives to reduce plastic waste through improved waste management and private sector innovation.