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Celebrate Earth: Sustainable Living, Meditation and Yoga

United Nations Headquarters 45th Street 1st Avenu, New York

This event will be a continuation of the ‘UN International Day of Yoga’, which was proclaimed by the United Nations on 11 December 2014 (Resolution 69/131), to be celebrated on 21 June every year. Special guest Ms. Yogmata Keiko Aikawa, the first female and non-Indian Siddha Master in history, will be gracing the event as the keynote speaker to promote methods of meditation that develop Mindfulness and that facilitate individual awareness.

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Gateway Portals to the City: Infrastructure for Sustainable Urbanization

United Nations Headquarters 45th Street 1st Avenu, New York

The event organized by the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization will bring together key stakeholders from Governments, UN system and other international organizations, the private sector, and civil society to engage in a dialogue that emphasizes the integrated and cross‐sectoral nature of sustainable infrastructure and portals to the city and its multiple roles in supporting the achievement of the SDGs. All modes of transport portals will be addressed.The meeting will also look at points of entry to the city from the perspective of the New Urban Agenda adopted in Quito in 2016.

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Who is Responsible for Climate Change? Implications for United Nations Talks, Shareholders, and Liability.

Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104 435 West 116th Street, New York

The question of responsibility for climate change lies at the heart of societal debate over actions to address it. This symposium explores the conceptual territory of climate responsibility, and scientific, legal, ethical and policy bases for assigning responsibility to countries and to other entities - from individuals to emitting industries to the fossil fuel companies at the base of the carbon supply chain whose responsibilities are now being actively debated in shareholder resolutions and calls for institutional divestment.

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