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  • World Environment Day. 5 June

    05/06/22

    World Environment Day. 5 June

    "One Earth" is a slogan with great symbolism since it was used at the first Stockholm Conference in 1972, an event that put the environment on the global agenda and led to the establishment of World Environment Day. Fifty years later, Sweden hosts Stockholm+50 from June 2-3 and World Environment Day on June 5.
    Since its inception in 1974, World Environment Day has become a global platform to raise awareness and respond with action on the most pressing issues, from marine pollution and global warming to unsustainable consumption and crimes against life. wild. Millions of people have participated over the years, helping to promote changes in our consumption habits and in national and international environmental policy. Below are some of the milestones of World Environment Day throughout the years. You can check out DRIVING FIVE DECADES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION and other resources at https://www.un.org/en/observances/environment-day/resources

  • Exhibition: Shelter and the SDGs

    23/05/22

    Exhibition: Shelter and the SDGs

    The exhibition consists of ten panels, where we are told how compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can influence the refugee population and encourages us to put these goals into action and contribute to change.

    Awareness campaign designed by the volunteers of the University of Valencia around the exhibition "Shelter and ODS II" that is exhibited in the Depository Library of the UN-UV (ONUBIB). In the Social Sciences Library Building, Tarongers Campus. 2nd floor South Zone. From May 31 to 3 june.

    On each panel of the exhibition, you can find a QR that gives access to a short online game with questions about the theme addressed by the panel, and another with which the information is expanded.

     

  • Biodiversity Day 22 May

    22/05/22

    Biodiversity Day 22 May

    The theme in 2022 is “Building a shared future for all life”. Fitting within the context of the ongoing United Nations Decade on Restoration, which highlights that biodiversity is the answer to several sustainable development challenges, the slogan conveys the message that biodiversity is the foundation upon which we can build back better.
    From ecosystem-based approaches to climate and/or nature-based solutions to climate, health issues, food and water security and sustainable livelihoods, biodiversity is the foundation upon which we can build back better. That is the main message from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), key international instrument for sustainable development.
    You can show support for biodiversity with the promotional materials for the Day.

    YouTube:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVnkkJaCuRo,
    https://youtu.be/Fnz6Ze9DAB4,
    https://youtu.be/by3XMII7sdg,
    https://youtu.be/_SzOWbBrUJ0?t=5

  • World Bee Day. 20 May

    20/05/22

    World Bee Day. 20 May

    Beekeeping is a widespread and global activity, with millions of beekeepers depending on bees for their livelihoods and well-being. Together with wild pollinators, bees play a major role in maintaining biodiversity, ensuring the survival and reproduction of many plants, supporting forest regeneration, promoting sustainability and adaptation to climate change, improving the quantity and quality of agricultural productions.
    This year FAO will celebrate World Bee Day through a virtual event, under the theme ‘Bee Engaged: Celebrating the diversity of bees and beekeeping systems’
    The event featuring bee and pollinator experts and practitioners from across the world will open with a video message by FAO Director-General QU Dongyu. The event will raise awareness on the importance of the wide variety of bees and sustainable beekeeping systems, the threats and challenges they face and their contribution to livelihoods and food systems. Resolution  A/RES/72/211

  • World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, 17 May

    17/05/22

    World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, 17 May

    In November 2006, the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Antalya, Turkey, decided to celebrate both events on 17 May as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. The updated Resolution 68 invites Member States and Sector Members to celebrate the day annually by organizing appropriate national programmes with a view to:
    -stimulating reflection and exchanges of ideas on the theme adopted by the Council
    -debating the various aspects of the theme with all partners in society
    -formulating a report reflecting national discussions on the issues underlying the theme, to be fed back to ITU and the rest of its membership

  • World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April 2021

    23/04/22

    World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April 2021

    In  celebrating  books,  we  are  also  celebrating  their  authors,  who  provide  us  with  snippets of life and insights into other realities. They open a window onto the world –more precisely, a window onto other worlds and other forms of existence. And for this reason, every year on 23 April -- the day on which the honourable authors William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega passed away –we celebrate writers whose works have been captivating our imagination for centuries. Today,  we  also  pay  homage  to  all  the  professions  associated  with  books:  editing,  translation, publishing and book selling. These fields make it possible to disseminate our  literary  heritage,  to  allow  for  the  expression  of  new  ideas,  and  to  enable  the  spread of stories. These professions must be protected and their value acknowledged. This is all the more  relevant  in  the  midst  of  the  COVID-19  pandemic,  which  poses  a  deep  and  lasting threat to culture.

 
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