European sustainability week
The European Sustainable Development Week (European Sustainable Development Week, ESDW) is a pan-European initiative to promote sustainable development . It takes place annually from May 30th to June 5th.
Background, goals, story
The idea of such a week on the topic of sustainability was presented to the Council of EU Environment Ministers on October 28, 2014 by the environment ministers of France, Germany and Austria . Background is defined by the United Nations adopted Agenda 2030 for sustainable development and the associated 17 targets for sustainable development .
Accordingly, the Sustainability Week aims to initiate activities, projects and events that contribute to sustainable development, to make them visible on a common platform and thereby encourage the citizens of Europe to actively deal with sustainable development and the 17 goals.
The Sustainability Week was held for the first time in 2015. The existing German Sustainability Action Days were integrated into the framework of the European Sustainability Week.
Organization, partner
Government agencies, research centers, educational institutions, museums, foundations, associations and companies as well as citizens can register their events, activities and projects on the platform. The European Sustainability Week is coordinated by the office of the European Sustainable Development Network (ESDN Office) at the Institute for Sustainability Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business .
The initiative's partners are the following national and European institutions: (as of May 2019):
- Baltic Sea Council
- Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy
- CSR Europe
- European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils Network (EEAC), European network of environment and sustainability councils
- European Environment Bureau
- European Economic and Social Committee
- Eurocities
- EU Green Week
- ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
- Students Organizing for Sustainability
- Qualitynet Foundation
- Nordic Council of Ministers
- Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism (Austria)
- Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire (France)
- Federal Chancellery (Germany)
- Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (ASviS), Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development
- Sustainable Development Council
- SDSN Switzerland
- SDSN Germany
- Open blue
- Water Agency
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Web links
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.esdw.eu/about-us/?lang=de
- ↑ young Cobia - aquaculture company with a focus on sustainability; Main funder is the investment company Cuna del Mar of Christy Walton