sustainability

VVSGs ‘Week of the sustainable municipality’ reaches one-third of Flemish municipalities and calls for international ‘SDG flag day’

The Overseas Development Institute (ODI), an independent, global think tank, has launched its new 5-year strategy. In the next half decade, ODI will focus on 4 key challenges: poverty and inequality, economies and work, sustainability and conflict and fragility.

 A multidisciplinary approach for complex challenges

On July 1-2, the World Summit on Climate and Territories takes place in Lyon (France). The mobilisation of non-state actors is one of the key conditions for success at the next International Conference on Climate Paris Climat 2015 (COP21) which will take place from 30th November to 15th December 2015. It is crucial to include subnational governments and local communities in the discussion in order to be able to limit and tackle the challenges of climate change efficiently.