The battle in Ukraine comes on prime of a deluge of unprecedented world occasions that threaten to flip again progress on the UN Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs) and undermine the well-being of individuals and international locations world wide.
As we method the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 UN Convention on the Human Atmosphere (Stockholm+50), it’s becoming to rally the worldwide sustainability neighborhood to come back collectively to share, dialogue, and catalyze extra motion to get us again on monitor for the world we all know is potential, and supply concrete help to folks in our neighborhood who’ve been devastated by the battle in Ukraine.
CSR Ukraine, CSR Europe and GlobeScan are planning a world dialogue. This will likely be a follow-the-sun, around-the-world occasion: a 24-hour steady, on-line webinar, with 24 completely different panels and matters exploring the way forward for sustainable growth and roles of enterprise, civil society and governments. The occasion can even increase important monetary help for native NGOs in Ukraine which have been devastated by the battle.
As a part of the web-a-thon, GreenBiz Transportation Analyst Vartan Badalian will likely be moderating a 1-hour webinar, “EV Charging: Is the EV Transition in Jeopardy?,” on June 21 from 5:00-6:00 pm EST. The electrical car (EV) trade is rising, with passenger EVs representing nearly 10 p.c of auto gross sales globally in comparison with simply 2.9 p.c again in 2019. Nonetheless, is charging infrastructure scaling appropriately and equitably to satisfy the wants of recent EV drivers?
