Latest Developments

Latest Developments

  • People riding bicycles in a bike race. Environmentally Sustainable Transport.
    Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST)
  • Participants of the Eighth Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific, Indore, India, 2018
  • Bottles are being filled with water from water tanks, Sri Lanka
    Water and Disaster
  • Participants of the Localizing SDGs Training Course, Toyota City, Japan
    Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Training Workshop on Regional Development at Bucaramanga, Colombia
    Integrated Regional Development Planning (IRDP)

Feature Events

03/06/2024

The Bandung Spirit Water Summit was one of the main programmes and the high-level panels of the Tenth World Water Forum held in Bali, Indonesia, from 18 to 25 May 2024.

25/07/2024

On 12 July, "A New Political Corridor to Achieve SDGs Through Water: From Bandung Spirit Water Summit to UN 2026 Water Conference" was held in person at UNHQs as a side event of the HLPF 2024. The event was co-organized by the Governments of Albania, Indonesia, and Japan, the Geneva Water Hub (GWH), the High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP), Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), and UNCRD/UNDESA.

11/08/2024

The High-Level 16th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia, will be jointly organized by the Department of Transport (DOTR), Government of the Philippines (supported by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Government of the Philippines); the Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan (MoE-J); the Asian Development Bank (ADB); the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) (tbc); and the United Nations Centre for Regional Develo

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