UNEP/EUROBATS: The Social Calls for Bats Conference 2018
The event brings together the latest research on social calls and bat communication.
WHO: Immunization week
The European Immunization Week (EIW) is taking place from 23-29 April 2018.
AEWA: 5th Pan-European Duck Symposium
The 5th Pan-European Duck Symposium will take place on the Isle of Great Cumbrae in Scotland from April 16 to April 20.
The symposium takes place in different places in Europe every three years. This conference attracts a wide variety of duck biologists, conservationists and wildfowl managers from all over Europe and further afield.
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UN-Spider: Applied Geography for a better future
Formerly called the GIS for the United Nations and International Community Conference, this revamped event explores how Esri’s ArcGIS platform empowers the international community to achieve the global goals.
This year’s conference features an engaging, interactive environment that drives collaboration with your peers – and focuses on applying GIS to: people, planet, prosperity, and peace.
Start leveraging powerful GIS technology in new ways to build a better world—by helping to end poverty, inequality, climate change, improving health and more.
Sustainability exhibition „Examples to follow“ opened in Bonn
In the former building of VHS in Bonn, curator Adrienne Goehler yesterday inaugurated the exhibition “Examples to follow”. The exhibition, which deals with the conjunction of sustainability and aesthetics, was jointly organized by „Stiftung zu Fragen der Zeit“, Engagement Global, German Development Institute (GDI) and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN Germany).
UNIDO: 12th Forum on responsible mineral supply chains
17-19 April - The 2018 Forum will provide the opportunity to review and discuss implementation of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Minerals and other initiatives to enable responsible mineral production and sourcing.
UN-SPIDER: Earth Observation & Copernicus Technologies and Solutions for User Applications
The event is planned as a marketplace that will enable knowledge transfer between technology experts, service providers and manufacturers as well as users from selected application fields. The goal is to stimulate the development and marketing of new “Copernicus”-related products, services and solutions.
WHO-ECEH: High-level regional meeting - Health Systems Respond to NCDs: Experience in the European Region
The enormous burden of NCDs, particularly cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, challenges health systems in all countries of the Region. The prevention and treatment of NCDs are central to Health 2020, underlie the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and connect strongly with the universal health coverage agenda.
UNU-EHS: PAUWES Research-2-Practice Forum 2018 in Thlemcen, Algeria
Linking research and development as a contribution to achieve the goals of the Agenda 2063 of the African Union is a priority for the Pan African University of the African Union.
UNCCD: Nexus 2018, (16 – 18 April): Water, Food, Energy and climate
UNCCD: Nexus 2018, (16 – 18 April): Water, Food, Energy and climate
The “Nexus” approach is the one that focuses on overlaps across sectors while respecting sectoral expertise in order to make better plans by understanding interactions (Stockholm Environment Institute, 2017). This will be the second Nexus Conference that The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has organized.