UN Ocean Conference 2025

The third UN Ocean Conference cohosted by France and Costa Rica will be held on 9-13 June 2025. The conference will focus on accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean.

4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are in the crossfires of multiple crises: climate change, the economic and social repercussions of COVID-19, and a crisis of debt. The pandemic hugely impacted all island nations, especially those dependent on tourism. Global lockdowns left large holes in islands’ coffers and severely set back efforts to invest in the Sustainable Development Goals.

UN 2023 Water Conference

Water is a dealmaker for the Sustainable Development Goals, and for the health and prosperity of people and planet. But our progress on water related goals and targets remains alarmingly off track, jeopardizing the entire sustainable development agenda. The 2023 UN Conference on the Water Action Decade was co-hosted by the Government of Tajikistan and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Conference became a significant milestone in the history of the United Nations to advance internationally agreed water-related goals and targets, including those contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

UN Ocean Conference 2022

The UN Ocean Conference 2022, co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal, came at a critical time as the world was strengthening its efforts to mobilize, create and drive solutions to realize the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Second Global Sustainable Transport Conference

The second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference was held from 14 to 16 October 2021 in Beijing, China. It provided an opportunity to focus attention on the opportunities, challenges and solutions towards achieving sustainable transport objectives. It followed up on the first Global Sustainable Transport Conference, held in 2016 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, and indicated a way forward for sustainable transport to help achieve the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The Ocean Conference

High-level UN Conference to Support the Implementation of SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans

Global Sustainable Transport Conference

United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015

The United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda was held from 25 to 27 September 2015, in New York and convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly.

Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States

The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States was held in Apia, Samoa, in 2014. It focused the world's attention on a group of countries that remain a special case for sustainable development in view of their unique and particular vulnerabilities.

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) was organized in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 64/236 (A/RES/64/236).

MSI+5 (2010): Five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy of Implementation

MSI (2005): Mauritius Strategy of Implementation

World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), Johannesburg Summit

Johannesburg Summit 2002 - the World Summit on Sustainable Development - brought together tens of thousands of participants, including heads of State and Government, national delegates and leaders from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses and other major groups...

BPoA+5 (1999) - Five-year review of the Barbados Programme of Action

UNGASS-19 Special Session of the General Assembly to Review and Appraise the Implementation of Agenda 21

In 1992, more than 100 heads of state met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the first international Earth Summit convened to address urgent problems of environmental protection and socio-economic development. The assembled leaders signed the Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, endorsed the Rio Declaration and the Forest Principles, and adopted Agenda 21, a 300 page plan for achieving sustainable development in the 21st century.

BPOA (1994) - Barbados Programme of Action

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Earth Summit

Since 1990, the international community has convened 12 major conferences which have committed Governments to address urgently some of the most pressing problems facing the world today.

World Commission on Environment and Development

The General Assembly, in its resolution 38/161 of 19 December 1983, inter alia, welcomed the establishment of a special commission that should make available a report on environment and the global problematique to the year 2000 and beyond, including proposed strategies for sustainable development.

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference)

The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference) was an international conference convened under United Nations auspices held in Stockholm, Sweden from June 5-16, 1972. It was the UN's first major conference on international environmental issues, and marked a turning point in the development of international environmental politics.