This occasional newsletter highlights events and stories about innovation in sustainable development for rural, remote and island regions. We want to change the discourse to demonstrate how islandness can be a driver for innovation.
Other Events
Closing the Gap: Securing Lives, Creating Livelihoods in Small Island Developing States
IRENA Pavilion at COP 27 Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptThe objective of this event to identify strategies to close the financing, technology, capacity, and knowledge gaps to achieve and increase the ambition for SIDS…
Climate justice and the role of international law
The planet is facing an existential climate crisis. International law already contains obligations to prevent harm to the environment and protect human rights, but how…
10th World Ocean Summit
Join us this month, in-person, in Lisbon The World Ocean Summit is an annual global event bringing together the widest cross-section of the ocean community…
Blue Justice Conference 2023
The Blue Justice Conference 2023 is a high level event on combatting fisheries crime through inter-agency cooperation and digital innovation. The event includes many Island…
Clean energy for EU islands forum (#CE4EUislands)
30 for 30 | In 2023 we will select 30 islands that want to become fully renewable by 2030. Achieving fully renewable-energy-powered islands is the North Star objective…
Launch of the Blue Justice Ocean Surveillance Programme
UNDP and Norway will announce the new Blue Justice Ocean Surveillance Programme. Norway will provide free surveillance to states that supports the Int. declaration against…
Climate Gen Z Conference
The Climate Gen Z Conference is a virtual conference that aims to improve and expand activism on climate change issues facing the Caribbean. It is…
The 1st Philippine Digital Nomad Summit
The Island of Siargao, known as the surf capital of the Philippines, is one of today’s top tourist destinations. The recent pandemic created a new…
After the European Parliament’s resolution on island regions: what’s next?
An interactive, high-level dialogue with representatives of EU institutions and bodies, organisations and civil society representatives will identify key elements and solutions to shape an…
Turning the Tide: Climate Change, Social Change, and Islandness
Islands are at the front lines of climate change. With close proximity to the oceans, they are often the first to experience land loss due…