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2024 UNC Water and Health Conference 14-18th October: Science, Policy, and Practice Call for Side Event Proposals

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  Dear Colleague,  The Water Institute is officially accepting Side Event Proposals  for the 2024 UNC Water and Health Conference being held October 14-18 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Side Events offer an opportunity to delve into specific WASH topics, promoting collaboration between diverse stakeholders, including researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. To submit a Side Event proposal, visit the designated portal below and complete the form in its entirety. The deadline to submit a Side Event proposal is June 3rd, 2024 at 11:59 PM EDT. After this date and time, we will not accept late submissions or reopen the portal. Submission here For insight into each of the conference sessions, we recommend visiting our Conference Sessions Overview Webpage .  Feel free to contact The Water Institute with any comments, questions, or concerns at waterinstitute@sph.unc.edu . 

Multi-stakeholder Webinar 19th March on the 2025 UN Ocean Conference

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  Multi-stakeholder Informative Webinar on the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference 19 March 2024, 9:00 – 10:00AM (EDT) Register here! Background The high-level 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (the 2025 UN Ocean Conference ) will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 – 13 June 2025. Amongst others, the 2025 UN Ocean Conference will bring together Governments, the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations, international financial institutions and stakeholders to support further and urgent action to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development and identify further ways and means to support the implementation of SDG 14. For more background information on the Conference, please see: https://sdgs.un.org/conferences/ocean2025

UNEP Newsletter after UNEA 6 - find out what happens

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  UNEA-6 Newsletter - 3 March Thank you for being one of 5,600 people – representing 190 countries – who took part in all the action at UNEA-6. If you missed any sessions,  watch the on-demand videos .  Looking for the Ministerial Declaration and all outcome documents?  The full list is online .  What's next? Now it’s time to take forward the  15 resolutions adopted  to advance the work:  on management of metals, mineral resources, chemicals and waste; on environmental assistance and recovery in areas impacted by armed conflict; on integrated water resource management in the domestic sector, agriculture and industry to tackle water stress; on sustainable lifestyles, on rehabilitation of degraded lands and waters  and more.   In the words of the special guest rappers, now it’s time to  get with the programme ! Take a moment to watch and share that fun video.  We hope to you in Nairobi at UNEA-7 to be held from 8 to 12 December in 2025.  In case you missed it Message from UN Secretar

Joint Global Statement of Major Groups and Stakeholders for the 6th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6)

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Originally published here.   Joint Global Statement  of Major Groups and Stakeholders for the 6th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA- 6)   presented by the Children and Youth, Indigenous Peoples, Farmers, Local Authorities, NGO, Science and Technology, Women, and Workers and Trade Unions Major Groups based on a series of International Consultations and the 20 th Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum Preamble We, the representatives of Major Groups and Stakeholders, welcome the focus of the Sixth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) on effective, inclusive, and sustainable multilateral actions to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. We sincerely appreciate the recognition of the urgency to take effective, coordinated, and timely international action to tackle the systemic threats posed by the triple planetary crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution to sustainable develop