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September 2019
SDG Media Zone @ UNGA74: Day 3
Held on the sidelines of the General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York, the SDG Media Zone engages experts, innovators, content creators, young leader, and personalities to highlight actions and solutions in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. Day 3 was filled with engaging panels covering a broad range of topics – see them all below.
SDG Media Zone @ UNGA74: Day 2
Held on the sidelines of the High-Level Political Forum at the UN Headquarters in New York, the SDG Media Zone engages experts, innovators, content creators, young leader, and personalities to highlight actions and solutions in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. Day 2 was filled with engaging panels covering a broad range of topics.
United Nations and Sanrio Launch Strategic Collaboration to Promote the Sustainable Development Goals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsS8v2O7kTU&feature=youtu.be NEW YORK, 24 SEPTEMBER 2019—The United [...]
SDG Media Zone @ UNGA74: Day 1 – Climate Action Summit
Held on the sidelines of the General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York, the SDG Media Zone engages experts, innovators, content creators, young leader, and personalities to highlight actions and solutions in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. Day 1, focused on the Climate Action Summit.
Greta Thunberg tells world leaders ‘you are failing us’, as nations announce fresh climate action
Speaking at the beginning of the UN’s Climate Action Summit [...]
World’s 1.8 billion youth must ‘have a say in the future of the planet’
It is “crucial” that the world’s 1.8 billion young people [...]
August 2019
Activist Greta Thunberg gets preview of UNHQ ahead of climate summit
Two days after disembarking from her carbon-free yacht in New [...]
ActNow for Zero-Waste Fashion
Climate action, at the individual level, involves changing habits and routines by making choices that have less harmful effects on the environment.
A dangerously hot climate, simmering political tensions: ‘This is not the summer of our youth,’ UN chief warns
Global warming and rising political tensions are dangerous and avoidable, Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters on Thursday, previewing the UN’s upcoming Climate Action Summit, and spotlighting geopolitical hotspots.
July 2019
SDG Media Zone: Raising ambition in support of the 2030 Agenda
Our special guest, Amina J. Mohammed, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, discusses the slow progress made in achieving the SDGs and the way forward.
The United Nations and Talent From the Angry Birds Movie 2 Join Forces on the ActNow Climate Campaign
The United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC) is collaborating with Sony Pictures Entertainment and the UN Foundation in support of the UN ActNow climate campaign, a global call for citizen action on climate change.
SDG Media Zone: New Perspectives to Achieve the SDGs
The SDG Media Zone engages experts, innovators, content creators, young leader, and personalities to highlight actions and solutions in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. This is the wrap up of Day 1 of the Media Zone held during the High Level Political Forum.