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November2020
The workshop is being organized in partnership between the Global Compact Local Network UAE and RAK Municipality to provide a platform raise awareness on the Local Network here in the UAE and how businesses in the Emirate of Rask Al Khaimah are able to engage. The workshop will showcase the UN Global Compact, the importance of aligning to the SDGs and the UN Global Compact Ten Principles and highlight how RAK Municipality has taken the lead in this alignment with their new strategy.
The General Assembly is being held as an opportunity to speak to the participants and signatories of the UAE Local Network. The Local Network will highlight the transition that it has taken since establishment and relaunch in January 2020, present the strategic priorities and objectives that have been identified by the Local Network for feedback and suggestion, and also highlight the activities of the Local Network for 2021. Throughout the General Assembly, participants will be asked to provide feedback, polls will be conducted to obtain live responses and the aim is to ensure that the Local Network of the UAE starts 2021 as one business community working towards a common goal.
For the last few months, as the world has been grappling with COVID-19 and its impact across all sectors of the economy. Leaders have been extremely concerned about mitigating the concerns of the present, but what is to happen once the worst has passed and companies are left to deal with the fallout? Are businesses doing enough to prepare for a world after COVID-19 – and if not, what should they be doing?
June2021
The Leaders Summit will convene more than 2,000 of the world’s foremost corporate sustainability leaders to discuss and debate the values of the UN, the future of multilateralism and the role that principles-based business can play in driving progress on the Global Goals.
July2021
The high-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) is the core United Nations platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
September2021
The 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) will open on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Tuesday, 21 September 2021.
October 2021
Expo 2020 Dubai is gearing up to help shape a post-pandemic world and create a better future for all after a two-thirds majority of Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) Member States voted in favour of postponing the next World Expo by one year. The global mega event will now run from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022, a delay that allows all participants to safely navigate the impact of COVID-19, and allows the World Expo to focus on a collective desire for new thinking to identify solutions to some of the greatest challenges of our time.
November2021
For the first time, the UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow on 1 – 12 November 2021. The climate talks will be the biggest international summit the UK has ever hosted; bringing together over 30,000 delegates including heads of state, climate experts and campaigners to agree coordinated action to tackle climate change.
