Page 2 - Ncsd News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The Bern Data Compact represents a major milestone towards the recognition of community-driven data in official processes, and its role in filling vital information gaps for sustainable development. Achieving official recognition of citizen-generated data as a crucial tool to ensure no one is left behind in fulfilling each SDG has been a key goal of the Leave No One Behind Partnership since its founding in 2017, but that work didn’t start nor end at the 2021 World Data Forum.

The fourth Asia-Pacific Water Summit is the first in a series of events slated for the second quarter of 2022 that seek to promote focus on water and sustainable water governance in preparation for the UN 2023 Water Conference. The Conference is expected to help “create a consistent drumbeat” to raise attention to water by offering a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to catalyze action and build partnerships to achieve international water goals, including SDG 6 and its targets.

To some, species recoveries are seen as long-overdue conservation successes; others may consider them a threat. On World Wildlife Day, 3 March 2022, FAO and the IUCN SSC HWC Task Force are publishing three case studies that highlight good processes of engagement with local communities and citizens to understand and address human-wildlife conflict situations.

The UN’s High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development met to review implementation of the Cape Town Global Action Plan for sustainable development data. A new framework for the Global Action Plan will be reviewed during the 54th session of the UN Statistical Commission in March 2022. The HLG also discussed the Bern Data Compact for the Decade of Action on the SDGs.

The Natrona County School District has seen a decrease in COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks compared to the previous two.