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Diplomacy for Sustainability European Sustainable Development Week Berlin, May 29th to June 6th 2019 „ Together with the many participating embassies we would like to emphasize the importance of the topic sustainability to a wider audience. We all want to contribute to a change of awareness.“ Tania von Uslar-Gleichen Department coordinator for sustainable development in the Federal Foreign Office #ESDW19 Diplomacy for The European Sustainable Development Week (ESDW) is a Sustainability European-wide initiative to stimulate and make visible acti- vities, projects and events that promote sustainable develop- As part of the European Sustainable Development Week 2019 ment and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It takes (ESDW19), the Federal Foreign Offi ce and 24 Berlin-based #ESDW19place every year from 30 May until 5 June. embassies join their diplomatic forces to make our societies and countries more sustainable. The event series “Diplomacy The EuropeanESDW contributes Sustainable to the Development ambitious, Weekuniversal (ESDW) and trans-is a for Sustainability” aims at bringing together governments, European-wideformative 2030 Agendainitiative for to Sustainable stimulate and Development make visible and acti- its states and people for the common aim of a good life and a vities,17 SDGs projects by promoting and events the that organization promote sustainableof bottom-up develop- acti- clean environment for everyone. mentvities andthat thehave Sustainable a thematic Development link to and support Goals (SDGs).the SDGs. It takes As placesuch, theevery ESDW year aimsfrom to29 raise May awarenessuntil 6 June. for the 2030 Agenda The events will be held at the participating embassies in Europe and calls upon local stakeholders to actively enga- revolving around the topics of the 2030 Agenda’s SDGs. Thege with ESDW sustainable contributes development, to the ambitious, in general, universal and the and SDGs, trans- From panel discussions and fi lm screenings to the tasting of formativein particular. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its sustainable chocolate – various events are informing about 17 SDGs by promoting the organization of bottom-up acti- the countries’ actions for sustainability and give a chance vitiesInformation that have taken a thematic from: https://www.esdw.eu link to and support the SDGs. As to learn more about individual SDGs in a country-specifi c such, the ESDW aims to raise awareness for the 2030 Agenda context while visiting the embassies. in Europe and calls upon local stakeholders to actively enga- ge with sustainable development, in general, and the SDGs, After our successful fi rst participation with ten embassies in in particular. 2018, we are happy to be part of the ESDW19 and of a gro- wing network of sustainable embassies and governments. Information taken from: https://www.esdw.eu 200 miles above earth EVENTS & SCHEDULES Opening Event Design and Sustainability At this Opening Event we will introduce you to the ideas be- The Italian Embassy will host an international conference hind the project “Diplomacy for Sustainability” and will dis- on design and sustainability, coupled with an exhibition cuss the possibilities for diplomacy to contribute to sustain- of Italian design masterpieces curated by Luisa Bocchietto, ability. Minister of State Niels Annen will speak the Opening President of the World Design Organisation. The WDO has Words. Afterwards, the participants of our panel and the been founded in 1957 as ICSID to represent industrial design audience will have the opportunity to participate in the professionals worldwide, and is now a strong campaigner Swiss SDGeek Game and to test their knowledge on Sustain- in spearheading the SDGs across the design community. able Development. During the following panel discussion, WDO is aligning its work programme to the SDG targets as a our panelists will debate the manifold intersections between common ground for the 400,000 designers it represents. The diplomacy and sustainability, the possibility for diplomacy to exhibition will present contemporary projects on sustainable enhance the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda and the design. For any further information please check our Website Sustainable Development Goals. Guest will be ###, ### and or send an e-mail to: [email protected]. ###. The event will be moderated by Tania von Uslar-Glei- chen, the Coordinator for Sustainable Development in the Federal Foreign Offi ce. We look forward to welcoming you at the Federal Foreign Offi ce! Access only by prior registration and ID. The conference will be held in English. Entrance by Tiergartenstrasse, 22. Wednesday, 29. May, 2 - 5 pm Wednesday, 29. May, 6 - 8 pm German Federal Foreign Of ce Embassy of Italy Registration: agenda2030-s@zentrale. Registration: Please register on Eventbrite by auswaertiges-amt.de by 25 May 2019 May 27th 2019 (registration opens in May). EVENTS & SCHEDULES Best Practices in Humanitarian The Living City Aid - the Case of Syria of the Future In 2019, nearly 132 million people in 42 countries around Today half of humanity – 3.5 billion people – lives in cities, the world will need humanitarian assistance, including with a projection of 5 billion by 2030. Sustainable cities do protection. There are more crises, affecting more people, and not only have to be clean, have good and functioning trans- lasting longer today than a decade ago. The event organized port systems and access to clean water. Sustainable cities at the Turkish Embassy in Berlin focuses on best practices in also have a social component: they should be places where humanitarian aid with an emphasis on the case of Syria. The the inhabitants feel good, can satisfy their needs of housing, conceptual framework and content will include sustainabi- work, schools, health care, recreation and everything else lity of peace, the interrelationship between development aid that belongs to a good life. People who live there should be and humanitarian aid, effi cient use of resources and capacity involved in democratic decision making processes. And they building. There will be high-level participation from Turkey need to know their rights to the city that they live and work as well. The event will feature visual material highlighting in or visit. the challenges and best practices in humanitarian aid. Together with city planners, researchers, policy makers and An “Iftar” dinner at the Embassy will follow, which will be a youth we want to discuss how the cities of the future can separate event requiring additional registration. become truly living cities. Saturday, 01. June, 7 - 9 pm Monday, 03. June, 10 am - 12.30 pm Embassy of Turkey Nordic Embassies Registration: [email protected] Registration: [email protected] until 23 May 2019 by 24 May 2019 Green skyscrapers, Milano EVENTS & SCHEDULES Healthy Oceans Sustainability without Peace, Peace without Healthy oceans and seas are vital to the well-being of the planet and to economic and social prosperity of coastal states Democracy? such as the Nordic countries. Therefore, Agenda 2030 and Global Goal #14, Life below Water, will form the central the- Peace, good governance, rule of law as well as participatory me of a seminar at the Nordic Embassies in Berlin, in which decision-making constitute the essential requirements for experts from the Nordic countries will discuss sustainable sustainable development. Where do we stand and how can utilization of the oceans and seas, international frameworks we effectively contribute to the achievement of these various and cooperation; and the impact of and actions to prevent facets of SDG 16? The event will provide an opportunity to marine pollution and litter. discuss these issues with professionals in this fi eld including innovators in social and political participation. Prominent guests such as the co-founder of the humanitarian organiz- ation People in Need and the former student activist Šimon Pánek or expert in participatory processes Tomáš Rákos wor- king with alternative voting systems have confi rmed their participation. Beyond that, the discussion should inspire the fi rst international review of SDG 16 implementation, which will take place in July 2019 in New York. Monday, 03. June, 1.30 - 5.30 pm Monday, 03. June, 3 - 5.30 pm Nordic Embassies Embassy of the Czech Republic Registration: https://www.eventbrite.de/ Registration: [email protected] e/healthy-oceans-tickets-59221863187 by 29 May 2019 EVENTS & SCHEDULES Nordic Plogging in Marine Expeditions Berlin Tiergarten for Climate By 2050 there will be more plastic than fi sh in our oceans. Marine expeditions have always fi lled the public imagination 80% of all waste polluting our seas come from land. As a with discoveries and technological exploits. Nowadays, they concrete follow-up to the seminar on Healthy Oceans in the play a crucial role in the understanding of climate change Nordic Embassies we invite you to a plogging tour through and of its effects on our ecosystems. This conference aims at Berlin Tiergarten. While jogging along the shores of the highlighting three major expeditions that are contributing to Landwehr Canal we will pick up litter. In this way, we will the research on sustainability in different ways: Tara, a polar not only keep our neighborhood clean but also prevent schooner which has been travelling across the oceans since the litter from eventually ending up in our lakes, seas and 2007 and advancing research on the protection of the environ- oceans. ment ; Energy Observer, world’s fi rst hydrogen vessel, which has been nominated as “French ambassador of the Sustainable Please bring your jogging shoes and comfortable clothes. We Development Goals”; and MOSAIC, the largest-scale Arctic will provide you with garbage bags, gloves and tongs. research expedition of all time, which will start in September 2019 with the German research icebreaker Polarstern.All these major research and development projects call for a sustainable development and spread a message in favor of the protection of the oceans and of the climate.