Cycle of Conferences Home page

A Group Focus was placed on:

 

2023

• UN Climate Change Conference COP28 2023, 30 November-12 December, Dubai, United Araba Emirates
• UN SDG Summit 2023,18-19 September, NY, USA
• High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, 10-19 July, NY, USA
• 49th G7 Summit, 9 — 21 May, Hiroshima, Japan
• UN 2023 Water Conference, New York, USA, 22 - 24 March
• UN Conference on Disarmament, High Level Segment, Geneva, Switzerland, 27 Feb - 3 March

 

2022

• UN Biodiversity Conference, Montreal, Canada, 7-18 December
• UN Climate Change Conference, Sharm el Sheikh, 6-18 November
• UN Transforming Education Summit, New York, 15-19 September
• UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, New York, 5-15 July
• UN Ocean Conference, Lisbon, 27 June – 1 July
• G7 Summit, Schloss, Germany, 16 - 28 June
• World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 2-26 May 

 

2021

• The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, UK on 31 October – 12 November 2021
• Part one of the UN Biodiversity Summit, Kunming China and online, 11-15 October 2021
• The Food Systems Summit, UN HQ New York, 23 September 2021
• G7 Summit, Carbis Bay UK, 11-13 June 2021
• World Economic Forum Virtual Annual meeting, The Davos Agenda, 25-29 January 2021

 

2020

• 75th Anniversary of the UN and related high-level events, from 21 September to 2 October 2020
• International Energy Agency Clean Energy Transitions Summit online, 9 July 2020
• World Economic Forum Annual meeting, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 21-24 January 2020

 

2019

• Six Sustainable Development Summits (Youth Climate Summit, Climate Action Summit, Universal Health Coverage Summit, Sustainable Development Goals Summit, High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development, and Island Voices, Global Choices - the Samoa Pathway Mid-term review) at the UN in New York, USA, 21-27 September 2019
• World Assembly of Religions for Peace, Lindau, 19-23 August 2019
• High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, New York, 9-18 July 2019
• World Economic Forum Annual meeting, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 22-25 January 2019

 

2018

• UN Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration, Marrakech, Morocco, 10-11 December 2018.
• Seventh Parliament of the World's Religions "The Promise of Inclusion, the Power of Love: Pursuing Global Understanding, Reconciliation, and Change" in Toronto, Canada from 1 to 7 November 2018
• High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development "Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies", UN HQ New York, from 9 to 18 July 2018
• World Economic Forum Annual Meeting "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World", Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 23 to 26 January 2018

 

2017

• International Cooperative Alliance Global Conference and General Assembly, Kuala Lumpur, 14-17 November 2017.
• World Economic Forum, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, January 17-20 2017

 

2016

• UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development (Habitat III), Quito, Ecuador, October 17-20 2016
• UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants and the Leaders' Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis, 19-20 September 2016 (related blog post on what was achieved)
• World Social Forum, Montreal, Canada, August 9-14 2016
• World Humanitarian Summit, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-24 2016
• World Economic Forum, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, January 20-23 2016

 

An archive of selected write-ups from Cycles Initiatives from 2010-2015 can be found here. The initiatives are listed below.

2015

• United Nations Conference on Climate Change, Paris, November 30 – December 11 2015
• United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, New York, September 25 - 27 2015
• UN Conference on Financing for Development, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13 - 16 July 2015
• World Social Forum, Tunis, Tunisia, March 24-28 2015
• World Economic Forum, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, January 21-24 2015

 

2014

• UN Climate Summit, New York, USA, September 23 2014
• World Economic Forum, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, January 22-25 2014

 

2013

• The UN International Year of Water Cooperation: the Dushanbe High-Level International Conference on Water Cooperation, World Water Week in Stockholm and the Budapest Water Summit, between 20 August and 12 October 2013
• World Economic Forum, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, January 23-27 2013 and the World Social Forum, Tunis, Tunisia, March 26-30 2013

 

2012

• The Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, June 20-22 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Peoples' Summit, June 15–23 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• The World Economic Forum, January 25–29 2012 in Davos, Switzerland and the Thematic Social Forum, January 24–29 2012 in Porto Alegre, Brazil

 

2011

• ICA General Assembly for the International Year of Cooperatives, 14-18 November 2011
• UN Least Developed Countries Conference, Istanbul, 9-13 May 2011
• Davos World Economic Forum Meeting, Jan 26th - 30th 2011

 

2010

• Cancun Climate Change Conference, Nov 29th - Dec 10th 2010
• Millennium Development Goals Summit, New York, September 2010