Upcoming Events

This workshop hosted at Bath University will include presentations and discussions on technical and social issues of shelter, housing and the built environment that have a physical and psychological impact on health.

This year the Forum, hosted by Bath University, will focus on Health and Shelter as its theme. The UK Shelter Forum is a community of practice for individuals and organisations involved in shelter and settlement reconstruction activities after disasters.

The Tenth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM10) will be hosted by Canada during the week of 27 May 2019, alongside the 4th annual Mission Innovation (MI4).

The CEM consists of 24 countries and the EU, who together account for 90% of all investment in clean energy in the world and 75% of global GHG emissions. CEM focuses on practical co-operation, the exchange of good ideas and experiences within green solutions and the involvement of the private sector.

The Global Conference on Scaling-up Energy Access and Finance in Least Developed Countries will focus on concrete measures to accelerate energy access and enhance financing for sustainable and modern energy, as called for in SDG7.  

In order to deal with the economic and financial crisis triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the former G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting was promoted to the summit-level meeting as a forum of leaders of major industrialized countries and emerging countries in November 2008. The first G20 Summit was held in Washington D. C.
After that, the leaders met every half year until 2010. Since 2011, it has been held once a year. The 2019 Summit will be held in Japan.

SEforALL will convene a set of charrettes from 18th to 20th June 2019, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Energy access is a critical and under-served need among the 134 million people in need of humanitarian assistance today. In July of 2019, the Clean Cooking Alliance and UNITAR will host two consecutive events on behalf of the SAFE Working Group to convene the broad community of stakeholders engaged in providing energy solutions to crisis-affected people for capacity building, knowledge sharing, peer learning, and networking. Both events will take place over four days in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

The AIDF Global Summit will be held in Washington, D.C. in September with the aim of sharing knowledge that collaboratively can have a positive effect on the global aid, relief and development community and thus getting one step closer to reaching the SDGs by 2030.

On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government will gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to follow up and comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The event is the first UN summit on the SDGs since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in September 2015.