World Food Day
World Food Day promotes awareness of hunger and action for the future of food, people, and the planet. The Day aims to raise awareness on the importance of ensuring a world where everyone has access to diverse, nutritious, affordable, and safe foods.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) designated 16 October as World Food Day in 1979. The Day takes place annually on 16 October.
World Cities Day
World Cities Day brings Urban October to an end on 31 October each year and was first celebrated in 2014. As with World Habitat Day, a global observance is held in a different city each year and the day focuses on a specific theme.
Second World Summit for Social Development
The World Social Summit 2025, officially titled the Second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2), is a significant global event aimed at fostering inclusive social development and addressing key challenges to achieve well-being for all. It serves as a platform for governments, civil society organizations, private sector actors, and other stakeholders to collaborate on creating policies and strategies that promote…
Second World Summit for Social Development
The Second World Summit for Social Development would address the gaps and recommit to the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action and its implementation and give momentum towards implementing the 2030 Agenda.
World Tsunami Awareness Day
In December 2015, the UN General Assembly designated 5 November as World Tsunami Awareness Day.
In 2021, World Tsunami Awareness Day will promote target (f) of the "Sendai Seven Campaign" which aims to “Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of the present Framework by 2030.”
UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30)
The 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) will convene in November 2025 in Belém, Brazil.
World Toilet Day
World Toilet Day is celebrated annually on 19 November to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and help achieve SDG 6, which promises sanitation for all by 2030. To meet the SDG sanitation target, the world needs to work on average, five times faster.
World Sustainable Transport Day
World Sustainable Transport Day is celebrated annually on 26 November. The UN General Assembly (UNGA) declared the Day in recognition of the important role of safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transport systems for all in supporting sustainable economic growth, improving the social welfare of people, and enhancing international cooperation and trade among countries.
UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7)
The seventh meeting of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) will take place from 8-12 December 2025 at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting’s theme is theme, ‘Advancing Sustainable Solutions for a Resilient Planet’.
International Migrants Day
International Migrants Day is celebrated annually on 18 December to shine a spotlight on the contributions of migrants around the world and to highlight the increasingly complex environment in which migration occurs.
High-Level Political Forum
The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) in 2024, without prejudice to the integrated, indivisible and interlinked nature of the Sustainable Development Goals, will review in-depth: Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere; Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts; Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive…
World Refugee Day
The year 2001 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. The UN General Assembly (UNGA) decided that 20 June would be celebrated as World Refugee Day from 2001 onwards (A/RES/55/76).
World Refugee Day honors the strength and courage of refugees and encourages public awareness and support of the refugees, people who have had to flee their homelands because of conflict or natural disaster. The…
Third UN Conference on LLDCs
The Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) will explore innovative solutions to challenges faced by LLDCs and build meaningful, strategic partnerships to unlock the potential of LLDCs. The Conference will convene under the theme, ‘Driving Partnerships for Progress’.
G7 Leaders' Summit
The G7 Summit will be held in Borgo Egnazia, Puglia, from 13 to 15 June 2024. The event will be attended by the Heads of State and Government of the seven Member States, as well as the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission representing the European Union.
World Environment Day
The UN celebrates World Environment Day annually on 5 June. The Day encourages worldwide awareness and action for the protection of the environment.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) annually organizes events for World Environment Day, and the Day is typically celebrated in over 100 countries.
Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum
The 2024 Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum will be held in Bridgetown, Barbados from 4-6 June, co-hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the Government of Barbados, led by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley.
The SEforALL Global Forum has become the landmark global gathering to drive faster, broader progress on universal access to sustainable energy, as called for by Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7).
EU Green Week 2024
Here’s where Europeans are helping their peers. Many European utilities have financial, technical, social, and managerial skills to share with their peers on a not-for-profit basis. Through solidarity partnerships, they are supporting utility professionals in other countries to strengthen their capacities to provide locally adapted, efficient, sustainable and inclusive services.
With rising urban populations, environmental pollution…
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) +20
The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event will serve as a platform for multistakeholder discussions with the objective to take stock of the achievements and key trends, challenges and opportunities since the Geneva Plan of Action in 2003.
The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event is scheduled to be held from 27 to 31 May 2024, co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD and co-hosted by ITU and the Swiss Confederation, with the support of remote…
Regional Ocean Summit
The Regional Ocean Summit, in Jordan, under the Royal patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein, is a compelling addition to Economist Impact’s World Ocean Summit series. It is strategically designed to bring a regional focus to the robust analysis and inspiring content of the global summit. This regional summit aims to highlight key opportunities for international and regional ocean leaders, and investors in the Middle East…
United Nations Civil Society Conference
The UN Civil Society Conference will focus on the theme, the ‘Summit of the Future’. The Conference outcomes will serve as a contribution for Member States as they work towards the Pact for the Future.
The Summit for the Future, which will convene in September 2024, will adopt ‘A Pact for the Future’ – a concise, action-oriented outcome document, to be agreed in advance by consensus through intergovernmental negotiations. Originally…
Tenth Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development
The tenth session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-10) will be jointly organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt in collaboration with the African Union Commission, the African Development Bank and the United Nations system organizations.
The theme of the tenth session of the Regional Forum is “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda for…
International Mother Earth Day
International Mother Earth Day provides an opportunity to raise global public awareness of the challenges to the well-being of the planet and all the life it supports. The Day also recognizes a collective responsibility, as called for in the 1992 Rio Declaration, to promote harmony with nature and the Earth, to achieve a just balance among the economic, social, and environmental needs of the present and future generations of humanity.
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ECOSOC Youth Forum
The UN Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) 2024 Youth Forum will take place in April 2024, during ECOSOC’s 2024 session.
The Youth Forum is an annual initiative of the ECOSOC President, which has evolved into a key platform where young people can contribute to policy discussions at the UN through their collective ideas, solutions, and innovations.
UNGA Sustainability Week
The President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) announced plans to organize a series of back-to-back events as part of a ‘Sustainability Week’. The UNGA President highlighted the importance of thematic debates to ensure high-level attendance and progress related to ‘Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly’ (Resolution 77/335). The events will also contribute to the Summit of the Future.
Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Forum on Sustainable Development
The annual intergovernmental forum aims to assess progress and exchange knowledge, best practices, and policy solutions to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in line with regional priorities. Organized by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Forum will provide the space for an in-depth review of the Goals to be reviewed by the HLPF in 2024: SDG 1 (no poverty); SDG 2 (zero hunger); SDG…