On April 21, 2021 the training “What you can do for the Sustainable Development Goals” was held with students of the Belarusian State Technological University, the Belarusian National Technical University, the Belarusian State Economic University, the Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian State Medical University and the Belarusian State University in the framework of the social project “Pump yourself up” in the residential complex “Student Village”.
The training was conducted by the SDG Youth Ambassador Yaroslav Alekseev. He talked about environmentally friendly lifestyle and conscious consumption that everyone can apply in their lives every day.
The students pumped up their knowledge on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and can now say with confidence what each of them can do to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Anatoli Isachanka, National Coordinator for the Sustainable Development Goals, met with Olga Atroshchenko, Head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Office in Belarus.
Demographic issues and support of families are among the priority areas of the state policy in Belarus. The State Programme “Health of People and Demographic Security of the Republic of Belarus” for 2021-2025 as well as one of the sections of the National Strategy of Sustainable Development of the Republic of Belarus for the period until 2035 are dedicated to it.
The VI International Water Forum will take place in Minsk on June 3-4, 2021. The forum will be held within the Ecology Expo exhibition-forum and the XVI Republican Ecological Forum and will be dedicated to the theme “Springs of Belarus”.
The main goal of the forum is to discuss problems and work out solutions to sustainable functioning of water ecosystems (including springs), efficiency of water resources use for the country’s economy and their protection in the context of sustainable development principles.
During the thematic sections “Springs as a National Wealth of the Country”, “Problems and Prospects of Water Resources Use in a Changing Climate”, “The Role and Tasks of Environmental Education and Enlightenment to Ensure Water Security”, the Forum will present reports of leading scientists on protection and use of water resources.
Integrated water resources management, protection and rehabilitation of water ecosystems, and improvement of water management are the tasks for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 “Clean water and sanitation”.
Representatives of the Republic of Belarus participated in the 69th session of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in Geneva in April 2021.
Within the framework of the main theme of the session — “Promotion of circular economy and sustainable use of natural resources” — The participants of the Session considered the set of measures taken by the governments and other stakeholders to promote the principles of circular economy and sustainable use of resources to increase welfare while reducing the burden on the environment. The challenges related to overcoming the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic were highlighted.
Belarus has supported the UNECE initiative to promote the circular economy. Belarusian voluntary commitments for the development of the circular economy have been submitted to the Secretariat of the UN Economic Commission for Europe.
The circular economy as a model of development is defined as one of the priorities in the National Strategy for Sustainable Development of the Republic of Belarus for the period up to 2035.
Implementation of the circular economy is aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals 8 “Decent Work and Economic Growth”, 12 “Responsible Consumption and Production”, 13 “Combating Climate Change” and others.
Shchuchin officially joined the Child Friendly Cities initiative. The signing ceremony of the Agreement on Cooperation between the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, the Shchuchin District Executive Committee and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) took place in the city.
Belarus joined the international Child Friendly Cities initiative in 2006. At present 26 Belarusian cities participate in the initiative. Shchuchin will become the 27th city. Participation in the initiative means constant striving to care about the quality of life of children. The initiative requires a plan of action to help the city become more child- and teenager-friendly in all aspects concerning management, infrastructure and services. A distinctive feature of the initiative is the mandatory participation of children and youth in decision-making processes that affect them.
More information about the Child Friendly City Initiative can be found on the UNICEF website.
The Ministry of Forestry summarized the results of the national voluntary action “Forest Week-2021”, which was held in April 2021 for the fourteenth time. A total of 58,778 people, mostly volunteers, took part in the campaign. Over 7 days, more than 33 million trees were planted. The results of the campaign can be viewed on the website of the Ministry of Forestry.
Campaigns such as Forest Week, which expand the scope of afforestation and reforestation, are an important contribution to Sustainable Development Goal 15, Conservation of Terrestrial Ecosystems.
On March 31, students of the Belarusian State Medical University and students of the Faculty of Law of the Belarusian State University met with Stefania-Vitalia Vinnicek, Youth Ambassador of the Sustainable Development Goals. She represents SDG 16 “Peace, Justice and Effective Institutions”.
The debate addressed sensitive topics such as euthanasia and sex reassignment surgery on the part of somatic rights, liability for violating the mask regime, and the pros and cons of introducing “vaccine passports” for the population. First, theoretical reports were presented by Eugene Karpuk, chairman of the CCSSG (Coordinating Council of Student Self-Government), Vladislav Konchak, deputy chairman of the CCSSG , Stephania-Vitalia Vinnichek and Kristina Kuzmenkova, which continued with a discussion of the presented issues from the medical and legal points of view.
On April 27, 2021, the National Coordinator for the achievement of the SDGs, Anatoli Isachanka, met with the Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund in Belarus, Tanja Radochaj.
The parties discussed the status and prospects of bilateral cooperation with UNICEF through the National Coordinator on the SDGs, including on the eve of the International Children’s Day (June 1), as well as the implementation of the international technical assistance project to support the implementation of the SDG architecture in Belarus. This project is supported by UNICEF, UNDP and UNFPA accredited in Belarus.
From April 5 to May 5, 2021 the 2nd season of Belarus Green Awards contest of ecological start-ups is held in Belarus. This is a large-scale national competition of business ideas in the field of ecology, which unites all regions of Belarus.
The aim of the competition is to find solutions to global environmental problems through innovative projects. Projects from the following spheres can take part in the competition: — Production; — Technological solutions; — Food products; — Non-food products; — Household Goods; — Cosmetics.
During the first stage (up to May 5) the applications are collected; the second stage (from May 10) is voting; the third stage is defending works before the jury and awarding of winners during the opening of the international ecological exhibition Ecology Expo 2021. The participant questionnaire and detailed information about the contest can be found at https://pasternak.by/belarusgreenawards. The competition is organized by the ecoproject “Pasternak”, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus and “Belexpo”.
The implementation of innovative business ideas in the field of ecology helps to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 9 “Industrialization, Innovation and Infrastructure”, 12 “Responsible Consumption and Production”, 13 “Combating Climate Change”.
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