The 13th African Regional Meeting on 'Fostering Pan-African Collaboration for Just Futures' was hosted online on Thursday 17 August 2023, by RCE Makana and Rural Eastern Cape,
UNU-IAS will organise a session at the SDGs Youth Summit 2023 on the theme 'Youth Empowerment for the SDGs — UNU-IAS Stakeholder Dialogue'.
Held with the support of the Global Environment Outreach Centre (GEOC), the event will discuss challenges and opportunities to enhance meaningful youth participation in policymaking, and feature a panel discussion with RCE Yokohama youth member Ryoga Hiroki.
The Global RCE Service Centre is delighted to announce two new RCEs joining the network, who were recently acknowledged as new members:
RCE Ogun has won the bid to host the 2023 Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) Nigeria, an event held under the umbrella of YOUNGO, the official youth constituency of the UNFCCC. The theme of the conference is ‘Building Resilient Systems for a Climate Smart Economy in Nigeria’, and will take place from 11-13 September 2023 at the Covenant University Centre for Research Innovation and Development (CUCRID) from 10am each day.
From 15 May-15 July 2023, the RCE Youth Art Challenge exhibition was held at the Global Environment Outreach Centre at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan.
Organised by the RCE Regional Youth Coordinators (RYCs) and co-hosted by the Global RCE Service Centre at UNU-IAS, the RCE Youth Webinar 'Igniting Changes for a Sustainable World: Embracing Intersectionality in Sustainability and Local Community Actions' will be held virtually (online) on 10 August, 2023 to celebrate International Youth Day 2023.
A video featuring RCE Sustainable Consumption and Production education projects conducted during the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD, from 2015-2019, highlights some of the innovative projects conducted by the Global RCE Network focused on sustainable consumption and production. During this period, a total of 115 RCE projects focused on SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) across 31 countries.
On 3 May, 2023, RCE Saskatchewan held its 15th annual ESD recognition event, where it honoured 34 sustainability projects - a record number for the event. The awards were created to honour sustainable development leaders from businesses, towns and cities, educational institutions and community-based organisations. More than 300 initiatives have been recognised since the award program’s inception in 2008.
The Sirindhorn International Environmental Park (RCE Cha-am) and co-organisers are organising the 'International Conference on Environment, Climate Change and Energy for Future Challenges: Best Practice and Innovation for Conservation and Restoration', to be held online on 26 June 2023 from 8.30-13.00 (GMT+7).
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