Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

17 – 28 August | 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification | UNCCD COP 17 | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 8 – 22 September | 81st Session of the UN General Assembly, Opening and General Debate | UNGA 81 | New York, United States 18th September  | The Sustainable Development Goals Moment  22-26th September  | High-Level Week (and the 28th) 23rd September  | High-level meeting to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development 23rd September  | The Secretary-General will convene a high-level meeting on climate action and the just transition, focused on accelerating a just and orderly energy transition to renewables; mobilizing and scaling up affordable finance and investments for developing countries; and delivering adaptation and resilience support in an era of climate overshoot 24th September  |    High-level meeting to address the existential threats p...

  The Women 20 website can be found here. First . We should change the perspective avoiding a defensive approach on the inclusion of women, of small steps. Women are not disadvantaged people to include. They are half of the world. We should adopt the challenging vision of women’s empowerment. In the full meaning, of self-affirmation at all levels, even, but not only in in decision-making roles. In education it is necessary to eliminate the barriers to entry in certain areas (Stem), and remove all obstacles to women entering and remaining in the labour market. Positive actions and gender procurement measures must be adopted by governments. This means that in the public procurement, reward scores will have to be introduced for companies that have a greater presence of women in high decision-making levels. Measures to combat the male monopoly in decision-making are crucial to make a jump in gender equality. Second . There must be a strong commitment by governments to ensure female emp...

Guest blog: R. Bong Vergara is the founder and director for CYPHER Impact Investment Exchange (CYPHER X), a California nonprofit focu s ed on the investment readiness of women-led startups.  L ow investment flow and poor investment readiness impede the participation of women entrepreneurs in the technology field, thus, in advancing the STI framework for local Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) implementation . Only 2% of funded startups are women-led. If women startups are to fully contribute to the low-carbon transition, it is important to eliminate low investment flow and poor investment readiness as gendered and racialized barriers. Doing so requires strategies that are participatory, inclusive, and creative. I’m part of a team of advanced practice social workers that is laser-focused on supporting women-led startups; we particularly support those working on SDGs 1, 3, and 10 because of their goodness-of-fit with social welfare issues. If all communities, no matter thei...