Want to explore working at the World Bank? Start by visiting the World Bank Careers Portal at https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/careers. Navigate to the “Consultant Opportunities” section and use search filters to view available positions based on your area of expertise, location preference, and project duration.

Lots of useful information here including:
- the 100% Renewable Cities and Regions Roadmap project
- news and successes from cities around the world
- 4 key resources related to renewable energy (Solutions Package, Policy recommendations, toolkit, and guide)

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Members of AASHE’s Scaling Up Sustainability Across the Curriculum Community of Practice produced “Teaching Sustainability Competencies across the Disciplines” a guide for instructors and others who seek to integrate sustainability across the curriculum in higher education. The guide provides:
1. an overview of the similarities and differences among the sustainability competencies frameworks produced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Key Competencies in Sustainability Framework developed by the Global Council for Science and the Environment (GCSE).
2. support to integrate sustainability competencies into courses by identifying and developing curricular and pedagogical resources, resources for assessing student learning, and relevant examples of the scholarship of teaching and learning in this field.

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Lots of useful resources here focused both on education and youth empowerment

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The latest edition of the International Institute for Environment and Development's Make Change Happen podcast is out now! In this episode, Money, politics and power – reforming the international financial architecture, IIED discusses international financial architecture (IFA) – the global system that includes the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international financial institutions (IFIs).

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Check out this interesting initiative! Playing for the Planet is an Alliance that supports the video games industry to take action on the environment. In joining the Alliance, games companies and organisations have made specific and measurable commitments on sustainability, from reducing carbon emissions to integrating green activations in games.

Join the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and UN Women on 8 October at 10am EDT for a Global Policy Dialogue featuring the authors of the recent report "The Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2024." The document provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights prevailing trends, gaps, and recent setbacks on the journey towards achieving gender equality by 2030.

The event is free and open to all on Zoom and it also will be streamed live on UN DESA’s Facebook page. It will be held in English with captions available in other languages on Zoom.

Register at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9CKm0-h-QWa4079MHEkgXA#/registration

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The GEP Working Group recently celebrated their global launch of two new publications on greening education. One is guidance to teach and learn for climate action; a green curriculum that integrates climate mitigation and adaptation. The other is a quality standard for greening schools for climate action and sustainability, including a definition of what a "green school" is.

Curriculum Guidance: https://www.unesco.org/en/education-sustainable-development/greening-fu…

Quality Standards: https://www.unesco.org/en/education-sustainable-development/greening-fu…

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Are you interested in getting cities and businesses to take strong #ClimateAction? The City-Business Climate Alliance (CBCA) Forum is a network for leading cities, or leaders of local business networks, to exchange ideas on how cities can use their formal and informal powers to influence, regulate and collaborate with the private sector to achieve ambitious climate actions.

Email Emily White ([email protected]) if you are interested in learning more.

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Demand growth for green workforce skills is outpacing the increase in supply, as companies and countries globally begin to take action on implementing their climate and sustainability-related commitments, with current trends indicating that there will be more than twice as many jobs requiring green skills as there will be qualified workers available to fill those roles, according to a new study by LinkedIn’s 2024 Global Climate Talent Stocktake.

Read more about the study and why we need to recruit and retain more talent in the green workforce at the link below

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