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UNEP Faith for Earth will be running a series of around 24 virtual sessions with a focus on faith-based engagement from 21 February to 4 March on the occasion of the United Nations Environment Assembly – UNEA 5.2 (2022). The overall theme for UNEA-5 is “Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”.
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The PaRD Gender Equality and Empowerment (SDG 5) work-stream regularly hosts side events during the Commission on the Status of Women - and so it does in 2022. The Priority theme of the CSW meeting this year is: Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.
The German Catholic Conventions are major events with over 170 years of tradition. They take place every two years – each time in a different city. This year, the 102. Catholic convention will be hosted in Stuttgart and PaRD will hold a side event on Peacebuilding among religions in Myanmar with local partners and PaRD member Misereor.
This international high-level environmental meeting will be held in Stockholm, Sweden under the theme “Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity”. A one-day preparatory meeting will also be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 28 March 2022.
The international conference is hosted by the Facutly of Theology, University of Geneva.
The conference bringing together international governments and faith leaders will be hosted in July in London. It follows previous Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) events held by the US and Poland, and aims to boost global efforts to tackle persecution.
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The theme for the HLPF 2022 will be “Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. It will focus on five SDGs: 4, 5, 14, 15, and 17.
The World Water Week 2022 will take place 23 August to 1 September under the theme ‘Seeing the unseen: The value of water.’
The executive committee, on behalf of the central committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has decided, in close consultation with the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and other host churches and local partners, to postpone the 11th assembly, originally planned for September 2021 in Karlsruhe, Germany, until 2022.
The UN Climate Change Conference COP 27 will be held in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt from 7 to 18 November 2022.