Discover the latest climate change developments and greatest challenges facing our planet. This conversation includes experts, speakers and panellists sharing their ideas for how to create sustainable infrastructure.

Climate Change Conversation on Sustainable Infrastructure 

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A discussion on climate change developments and challenges facing our planet, sharing ideas for sustainable infrastructure. 

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Inside Expo: Sustainability I: The World’s Oldest Innovator

Inside Expo: Sustainability II: Harnessing the Sun

The Powerhouse Pavilions

Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion - Audio Guide

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Terra offers two different, immersive tracks that take visitors either Under the Forest or Under the Ocean in order to learn more about the beauty of the natural world. 

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See the Expo Young Innovators exhibition, which brings to life the creativity of students across the UAE who worked on developing solutions to global challenges.

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At Expo 2020, sustainability is an urgent, attainable reality, and Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion is the proof. Both immersive exhibition space and exemplar of environmental self-sufficiency, Terra is a pioneering piece of architecture that pushes the limits of renewable design.

The pavilion’s 130-metre-wide solar canopy – so vast that you could park 10 city buses head-to-tail atop it – converts sunshine into electricity for the exhibits below. Artfully funnelled natural light and local plant species, together with technologies that can reduce water consumption by 75 per cent, show the way to a sustainable future.


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Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

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Two immersive paths to choose from: beneath a forest and beneath an ocean

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LEED Platinum environmental features, including solar power and water recycling

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Interactive Tour: Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion

Terra is a super-sized marvel of forward-thinking design. The pavilion’s technology generates enough energy in a year to power a Nissan Leaf to drive halfway to Mars, while another system captures moisture from the air you breathe and turns it into drinkable water. Enter and take a fantastical journey through the wonders of nature, humanity’s challenges and the promise of our shared future. 


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Terra is home to five thought-provoking art installations from artists around the world, with each piece demonstrating a response to the issue of sustainability.

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Young visitors can explore a fantastical world inspired by Terra's very own octopus, Octavia.

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Climate Change Conversation on Sustainable Infrastructure - Part 1

Are you concerned about the climate crisis? Want to do something about it but don’t know quite where to start? The People’s Promise for Climate Impact will be a celebration of and catalyst for youth-led action across the globe, inspiring and empowering you to play an active role in tackling climate change. 
    The People’s Promise for Climate Impact will help you understand your impact as a citizen, student, innovator, creative and future or current leader – empowering you to act and help secure a climate-safe future for all. A global gathering of young changemakers and climate leaders from the areas of science, policy and business this event provides a diverse range of perspectives on how to collectively scale positive action. These discussions come at a critical time preceding the United Nations’ Climate Change COP, taking place in Glasgow, UK in November 2021. 
With live performances, workshops and opportunities to connect with a global network of changemakers, join us and add your voice to the People’s Promise for Climate Impact.


Join the fight against Climate Change

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Join a global gathering of young changemakers and climate leaders across science, policy and business as they share a diverse range of perspectives on how to ensure a climate-safe future for all.

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Live Performances: Music, Poetry, and more!

Live Podcast Recording: Outrage + Optimism with Christiana Figueres and Paul Dickinson

Climate and Biodiversity Week to spur the world into action to protect our planet

We stand at the brink of a crucial moment in time - a moment in which we must take decisive collective action to protect our planet, and the life it sustains, for future generations. It is an opportunity for us to take our place in history as the generation that stepped up to halt climate change, and transform human activity to operate within Earth's planetary boundaries. 

Expo 2020 Dubai's Climate & Biodiversity Week convenes government decision-makers, business leaders, youth advocates and our millions of visitors to address the greatest challenge of our time and generate solutions critical to the future of our civilisation and the health of our planet. 

What's your Promise to our Planet?

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How do we work together to better manage climate change and protect biodiversity? 

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Insight Report from Climate and Biodiversity Week

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Inspired by British physicist Stephen Hawking, who challenged humanity to ponder how we might express ourselves to alien civilisations, the UK Pavilion invites visitors to contribute to a unique linguistic experiment. While exploring this cone-shaped structure, which showcases the UK’s contributions to space science and artificial intelligence, you can add your own words to the pavilion’s neural network. A language-generating algorithm then processes these entries into an ever-changing “poem” that will be displayed on the pavilion’s LED façade, providing an inspiring collective message to Expo 2020, our planet and maybe even worlds beyond.

The awe-inspiring UK Pavilion is an epic, 20-metre-tall, cone-shaped structure compiled of rows of horizontal timber slats that stretch forward to create a circular form. The end of each slat houses a LED panel that emits phrases that link to form an ever-changing interstellar message crafted by artificial intelligence and Expo visitors. 

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Christiana Figueres is an internationally recognized leader on global climate change. She was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Assuming responsibility for the international climate change negotiations after the failed Copenhagen conference of 2009, she was determined to lead the process to a universally agreed regulatory framework. She directed the successful Conferences of the Parties in Cancun 2010, Durban 2011, Doha 2012, Warsaw 2013, and Lima 2014, and culminated her efforts in the historical Paris Agreement of 2015. She brought together governments, corporations and activists, financial institutions and communities of faith, think tanks and technology providers, NGOs and parliamentarians, to jointly deliver the unprecedented climate change agreement.

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H.E. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber is a member of the UAE Federal Cabinet, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, and the UAE’s special envoy for climate change. In his role as Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, Dr. Al Jaber oversees efforts to further expand the industrial development of the UAE, leveraging technology as a key enabler, as we enter the Fourth Industrial Age. The core mandate of the ministry is to increase industrial competitiveness and help drive economic growth by catalyzing the diversification of the UAE’s economy. 

In November 2020, H.E. Dr. Sultan was appointed as the UAE’s special envoy for climate change, a role he previously served in from 2010 to 2016, while spearheading the UAE’s clean energy agenda at Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s Abu Dhabi’s pioneering renewable energy initiative.

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UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology; Special Envoy for Climate Change


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President, 76th Session, United Nations General Assembly; Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maldives


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Nisreen Elsaim is an environmental and climate activist who began activism in 2012, with a Bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. She pursued her Master's degree in renewable energy from the same university. Nisreen is also a junior negotiator with the African Group of Negotiators in technology transfer, focusing on the policies of countries regarding climate change and renewable energies. She has written several policy papers in climate change, renewable energy, gender and youth empowerment; and was recently chosen to chair the UN Secretary General youth adviser on climate change along with six other young climate activists.  

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Chair, UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change 

Clover Hogan is a climate activist, researcher on eco-anxiety, and the Founder and Executive Director of Force of Nature: a youth non-profit mobilising mindsets for climate action. Clover has worked alongside the world’s leading authorities on sustainability, and consulted within the board rooms of Fortune 50 companies. She launched the Force of Nature podcast, serves as a trustee to Global Action Plan, and is on the advisory boards of the National Community Lottery's Climate Action Fund; and the Teach the Future campaign. Clover has taken the stage with corporate giants including the CEOs of P&G, Twitter and YouTube; alongside global change-makers such as Dr. Jane Goodall and Dr. Vandana Shiva, and interviewed the 14th Dalai Lama.  

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Her Excellency Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany is the Permanent Representative of the UAE to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) since April 2018. Prior to this, she was Executive Director of Sustainability at Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, and the Director of the Zayed Future 
Energy Prize, the UAE’s annual global awards for renewable energy and sustainability. She also served as the Deputy Director General of the Emirates Diplomatic Academy (EDA).
She sits on several advisory boards and panels, including those of National Geographic, the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, the Momentum for Change initiative of UNFCCC, and Sustainable Energy for All’s (SEforALL) Leadership Council, a group of global leaders with the mission to accelerate action on SDG7 and the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Permanent Representative of the UAE, International Renewable Energy 
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A lawyer by training, Alexandra specialized in human rights. She began her career at a law firm and then worked for Amnesty International in Germany and at organizations specializing in diversity, change management and sustainability. In 2012, she joined L’Oréal as Chief Sustainability Officer and launched L’Oréal’s first sustainability program, with a set of objectives to be achieved by the end of 2020. In 2017, Alexandra was appointed Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, becoming the Executive Vice President of the Foundation L’Oréal in addition to her role as head of the Sustainability Department. She became a member of L’Oréal’s Executive Committee two years later. In June 2020, L’Oréal launched its new sustainability program for 2030, L’Oréal for the Future.  

 

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Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, L'Oréal; Executive Vice President of Foundation L’Oréal


Ineza Umuhoza Grace an Eco-Feminist and self-motivated impact-driven actor in the climate change sector. She believes in climate justice and the power of sharing community voices. She is the founder/CEO of The Green Fighter and Co-founder/Co-director of the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition.  

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Climate Advocate, Green Fighter, Loss & Damage Youth Coalition


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Archana Soreng belongs to Khadia Tribe from Odisha, India. She is member of United Nations Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change. She is experienced in research and advocacy, and she is working to document, preserve, and promote traditional knowledge and cultural practices of indigenous communities. She is also the member of Indigenous Working Group of YOUNGO (official children and youth constituency of UNFCCC).  

 
 

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Environmental Advocate	Kharia Tribe, India


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Elizabeth Wathuti is an environmentalist and climate activist from Kenya. She is the Founder of Green Generation Initiative and the Head of Campaigns and Daima Coalition (for the protection of green spaces) Coordinator at the Wangari Maathai Foundation.  

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Heeta Lakhani is a climate educator from Mumbai, India. She has a Masters degree in Environmental Studies & Resource Management from TERI University, New Delhi. She has been active at the local as well as international level since the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in 2015.  She aims to create change-makers who will take knowledge-based action in order to combat the climate crisis. Heeta wears multiple hats, serving as Director for Youth Partnerships at March For Science and Coordinator of the Youth Empowerment in Climate Actions Platform (YECAP) at UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Hub. She also is the current Global Focal Point for YOUNGO, the official youth constituency of the UNFCCC.  

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Jason Boberg is a proudly disabled advocate and social entrepreneur. The co-founder of the Sustained Ability Disability & Climate Network, he has advocated for disability inclusive climate action at the UNCRPD and the UNFCCC, particularly campaigning for a formal Disability Constituency to bring disabled people together and promote disability rights within the UNFCCC. As the founder of social impact agency, Activate Agency, he brings a critical disability rights lens to his work, providing training, policy advice, and media to NGOs and government. Jason is a Climate Reality Leader and Founding Trustee of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter. His recent work includes contributing to Climate Aotearoa, Ed. Rt Hon Helen Clark.  

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Creative/Film Director, Sustained Ability


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Winner of the 2016 International Children’s Peace Prize, Kehkashan Basu is a global influencer, environmentalist, champion of women and children’s rights, TEDx speaker, author, musician, peace and sustainability campaigner. A Forbes 30 Under 30, Kehkashan is a United Nations Human Rights Champion, a National Geographic Young Explorer, and one of Canada's Top25 Women of Influence. Kehkashan is the Founder-President of global social innovation enterprise Green Hope Foundation, that works at a grassroots level in 25 countries, empowering young people in the sustainable development process. Kehkashan has spoken at over 200 United Nations and other global forums across 40 countries.  

  

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Lucy Siegle is a journalist, broadcaster and opinion leader who specialising in climate and nature stories. As a reporter and presenter on BBC1’s The One Show, she has been reporting on the problem of single use plastic and wider eco issues since the show began in 2007. Her book, Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (and you) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again was published in 2018. Also known as an authority on the environmental and social footprint of the global fashion industry, her book To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing out the World, published by Fourth Estate London, 2011 was also the basis for hit Netflix documentary, The True Cost, (she is co-executive producer). In 2014 she co-founded the Green Carpet Challenge with Livia Firth. She contributes to newspapers including The Times, The Guardian and The Observer. 

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Nadia is co-founder and COO of SafetyNet Technologies (SNTech), which develops Precision Fishing technology for a sustainable future. She has increased efficiency, sustainability, and business growth of SNTech. Previously, she worked in consumer research and product development at P&G, started up her own businesses, and helped other impact organisations develop sustainable business models. She has a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas, an MBA from INSEAD, and a Certificate in Social Sector Leadership from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.  

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Dr. Renard Siew is Board of Advisor to CENT-GPS where he is responsible for advancing the organisation’s work in the field of climate change and sustainability. He is the Founder of Accelerating Climate Action and has served as Co-Chair of the Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management Working Committee and UNEP-FI’s Collective Commitment on Climate Action. In 2020, he was appointed an SDG Champion-Climate Action by the World Economic Forum (WEF). He is a member of the WEF Expert Network Group, serves on the WEF Global Future Council, a Community Champion for Southeast Asia and a Global Lead for the Global Shapers Climate & Environment Steering Committee. 

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Climate Change Advisor, Centre for Governance and Political Studies 

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Serving as the first Future Generations Commissioner for Wales since February 2016, Sophie acts as a guardian for the interests of future generations in Wales, supporting the public bodies listed in the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 to work towards achieving the well-being goals. Prior to this, Sophie was the first Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales, served as a Government Special Adviser to the Cabinet and First Minister on communities, local government, community safety, housing, regeneration and equality, and at age 21, was elected as the youngest County councillor in Wales. She is currently a member of the Wales Committee of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Chair of the international Network of Institutions for Future Generations.   

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Future Generations Commissioner, Welsh Government

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Dr. Sunita Narain is an environmentalist and writer, and presently serves as the Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Editor of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth. Dr. Narain plays an active role in policy formulation on issues of environment and development in India and globally. She has co-authored influential publications on India’s environment, conducted in-depth research on the governance and management of the country’s environment and directed campaigns on air pollution control, community water management, sustainable industrialisation and food & toxins, among others. In 2016, she was featured in Time magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People in the World.  

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Director General, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Vladislav Kaim is a young Moldovan economist and climate action and sustainability advocate with a vast experience at the UN level, as well as on multiple national and local platforms in Moldova, Russia and Sweden. He has graduated with a bachelor’s degree in international economics from the Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO) in 2018 and a Master’s degree in economics from Lund University (Sweden) in 2021.  In 2014, Vladislav together with two colleagues co-founded MDG (changed to SDG in 2015) International Youth Forum – one of the first youth advocacy platforms in Russia and the wider region dedicated to popularizing UN sustainability agenda and providing high school and university students with the skills and knowledge required to effectively localize Agenda 2030. 

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Economist, UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change 

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Alderman William Russell took office as the 692nd Lord Mayor of the City of London on 8th November 2019. He served as a Sheriff of the City of London in 2016-17 and, in that capacity, supported the then Lord Mayor, undertaking numerous visits and official functions. On 30th September 2020 William was elected to serve a further year in office, to provide continuity of civic governance during the Coronavirus emergency. His second term began on 13 November 2020. His mayoral theme for his time in office is “Global UK –The New Future”, supporting businesses through the COVID19 crisis, speeding the recovery and seizing the opportunities of the new future. William has over thirty years’ experience in the financial and business City including holding senior positions in the national and international Banking sector. 
  

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People’s Promise for Climate Impact - Day 1

Expo aims to deliver one of the most sustainable World Expos in history, supporting the UAE in its journey towards a green economy. Sustainability is integrated across both our operations and programming, embracing every opportunity to create meaningful impact, and inspiring the global community to play an active role in becoming part of a sustainable future.

The Live in Balance track of Expo 2020 Dubai's Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series and experiences that spotlight our relationship with the natural world, and position Expo as a critical catalyst for restoring balance with our planet.

Restoring Balance with our Planet

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Live in Balance

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Join this international forum featuring experts and panelists to discuss the challenges of creating Sustainable Infrastructures across the globe. Exchange ideas and knowledge on this highly relevant and crucial topic.

Climate Change Conversation on Sustainable Cities

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Join this international forum discussing the challenges of creating Sustainable Infrastructure.

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Malaysia’s Taman Negara is the worlds' most ancient tropical rainforest – and the country’s pavilion at Expo 2020 is here to show us how they’ll keep it healthy for future generations. With its net-zero green design and simulated rainforest canopies, the Malaysia Pavilion presents an inspiring vision for a sustainable future.

The pavilion takes visitors along a woodland path through 3D graphical experiences, “groves” of digitally enhanced columns and exhibits that explore Malaysia’s commitment to balancing economic and environmental health. You can also enjoy Malaysian flavours at the café or a performance in the outdoor amphitheatre.


“Walkable movie” that journeys through stunning landscapes and outer space

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3D exhibits

Find Malaysian handicrafts and goods in the pavilion gift shop. 

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The Malaysia Pavilion creates the illusion of a floating jungle canopy with four large, softly rounded, interlocking pods that hover more than five metres above the ground on clusters of slim white metal stilts.

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Climate Change Conversation on Sustainable Cities - Part 1

Energy generation accounts for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions, but also holds answers for achieving a sustainable future.

Access to affordable energy is a basic requirement for development in today’s world. Today while some 770 million people lack access to electricity, energy generation is one of the largest contributors to global emissions.

Renewable energy currently represents close to 30 percent of total electricity supply worldwide. And some studies indicate solar and wind energy could entirely replace fossil fuels by 2050. However, technical, economic and policy challenges continue to exist, slowing down progress, when we indeed might need to accelerate it. 

With climate change topping global political agendas, and the world’s commitment to limiting the planet’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the balance, the focus on transforming how we produce and use energy is as important as ever.

Fuelling a Sustainable World in 2030

Global Access

This World Majlis convenes thought leaders, visionaries and changemakers to focus on how the world can achieve a sustainable future by transforming the way we produce and use energy.

Session programme - Power to Change the World

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Capped by a digitally enhanced “cumulus cloud” that provides shade in the daytime and a canvas for dazzling light displays at night, the Australia Pavilion is a vibrant showcase for the kind of imagination Australians like to call “Blue Sky Dreaming”.

Inside and out, the focus here is on Australian innovation. From the ancient astronomy of the Aboriginal peoples, which you can learn about through an immersive projection show on the pavilion’s interior dome, to the sustainably produced timber that forms the pavilion’s hill-shaped exterior, there’s no shortage of blue-sky ideas here to explore.


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With a crescent-shaped first level that resembles dusty hills and a cloud-like shade structure hanging overhead, the Australia Pavilion is designed to evoke a dramatic Outback landscape. 

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Opportunity I: The Global Goals and Expo 2020

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are our global blueprint for a better world, a collective ambition for equal opportunities for all. During the week, Expo will showcase not just how far we have come, but also how we can join forces and unite to achieve this international roadmap. In addition, the Global Goals Week will shed light on best practices in last-mile delivery, livelihood and the women and girls agenda. 