Sustainable Development Festival organized by ASviS

The Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS) organizes from next 22 September to 8 October the Sustainable Development Festival over a period of 17 days, as many as the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda. It represents a further step to encourage the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and constitutes a single widespread and inclusive event, comprising hundreds of events organized throughout the Italian national territory of Italy.

The OECD has just released a new version of the web-tool “Compare your income” which allows users to check whether their perception of income inequality is in line with reality. With a few clicks they can see where they are placed in the national income distribution and share their views on how this should be distributed to determine income equality.

On 14 May 2020 Istat released the third edition of the Report on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The publication takes place in the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has accelerated the need for a unified vision capable of developing and implementing an appropriate strategy for economic, social and environmental development attentive to the interdependencies of the various aspects and oriented towards sustainability.

Following the outbreak of COVID-19 and the declaration of pandemia last 11^th March with the sanitary emergency it has brought at international level, MAKSWELL Consortium has deemed necessary to ask to the European Commission for an extension of the project’s duration of 6 months, in order to accomplish to its last tasks in a qualified manner and bring the research activity to its proper conclusion. It got official approval by the EC and the amended version of the Grant Agreement entered into force on 6^th May 2020. This means that some of the last research outputs of the project have been postponed as well as its Final Conference.