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Dear colleagues, Since our last newsletter in September, 2016, many exciting developments have taken place. There are two new Regional Action Centers, one in South Korea and in Turkey, and the Brazilian RAC just held their official opening ceremony!  Keep reading to go over the most important events, updates, and developments for the IYGU! Best wishes, Benno Werlen, IYGU Executive Director Spotlight on Latin America! CNI Sustainability 2016 - IYGU, Biodiversity and Forests "The International Year of Global Understanding has succeeded by gathering all the pillars, elements, actors and dimensions that should be involved to advance in view of the planet sustainability". (Eliezer Batista, key initiator of the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, Rio+20 Earth Summit, and patron of IYGU) On September 22 the Brazilian Chamber of Industry (CNI) hosted its annual sustainability event in cooperation with the IYGU in Rio de Janeiro on “Biodiversity and Forests”: new business models for the industry of tomorrow”. It was opened by José Sarney Filho (Minister of the Environment) and Robson Braga de Andrade (President of the National Confederation of Industry).  The event was facilitated by journalist Rosana Jatobá. Unfortunetly IYGU Patron Eliezer Batista was unable to attend, however Inguelore Scheunemann (below left) spoke on his behalf. Click the links to read the speech in Portuguese and in English.  CNI Sustainability has established a new partnership with the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) in order to bring together corporate business, national and international specialists from different areas to discuss sceneries, challenges and opportunities of the sustainability agenda towards the industry of tomorrow. First panel: ‘How socio-environmental values influence production and consumption patterns’: with the panellists Klaus Töpfer (IYGU Patron, above right), Gordon McBean (IYGU Steering Committee, bottom, second from the right), Marcos Troyjo (Director of BRICLab at Columbia University, Brazil), Kersten Karl Barth (Substainibility Director Siemens; International Chamber of Commerce - below left), and Benno Werlen (IYGU Executive Director), and others. Second panel "The market's role in the valuation of forests and biodiversity" For additional information click here. More photos are available here. CNI 2016 Sustainability Event highlighted in one of the most important brazilian newspapers in a seven pages documentary O Globo - the secong biggest brazilian newspaper (the newspaper has a readership of around 1.5 million people) - has gave prominence to CNI's Sustainable Event with a special issue that could be downloaded here and article on its digital version. Opening Ceremony for the Brazilian RAC The Ordinary (daily) Look at Nature, Sports, and other Things....  The Opening Ceremony for the Brazilian RAC was held from September 6-10 at the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy in Rio de Janeiro. Table opening with Ambassador Luis Fernando Gouvea de Athayde, João Carlos Mariani, vice president of FIRJAN, Federal Judge and President of the Association of Federal RJ Judges, and Holy Spirit, Wilson Witzel, Joao Ricardo Moderno, President of the Academy Brazilian Philosophy, Inguelore Scheunemann, a member of the Executive Committee IYGU, Ambassador Lauro Moreira, and Sybelle de Jongh, coordinator of IYGU Regional Action Center for Brazil and Latin America. Find out more here          Global Understanding and UN Sustainable Development Goals International event on September 20, 2016 in Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil: “Planting the future to change the world” - Global Understanding based on local actions. The discussion of the "2030 Agenda" and the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.  International Colloquium from September 30 to October 1, 2016 in Alto Paraíso, Goiás, Brazil, on integrated cultural management: Strategies for articulation and implementation of sustainable development platforms. A few photo impressions and the program are above.  Political Ecology and Global Understanding in Chile The RAC in Chile hosted the above event on September 26. Also, our Chilean RAC is involved in the 2nd Latin-American Congress of Political Ecology, which will be held from November 8-11, 2016 in San Pedro de Atacama.  Cooperation of Future Earth & The IYGU The cooperation with Future Earth, with its director Paul Shriastava, already a long time partner of IYGU, is now on the way to be implemented in form of specific actions. This includes to work closely together in the Future Earth and ICSU co-sponsored program ‚Integrated Research on Disaster Risk’ directed by Rajib Shaw and the recently launched  ‚Sea Change’ project: Sea Change : Catalytic Conversion of Water Culture and Infrastructure ‘Sea Change aims to tackle the “problem of water”, particularly with regards to how decisions are made about water as resource, as culture, and as part of nature.’  The first step of this cooperation includes for the moment besides Future Earth, CIPSH and IYGU six other academic partners. New Global Partners The most import international scientific organizations in the field of Anthropology just joined efforts to IYGU! The World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA), which has more than 5000 members, and The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), with more than 30 scientific comissions are now part of our global network in order to promote IYGU activities. Regional Action Center update Since our last newsletter, we have established two new exciting RACs: In the Republic of Korea Prof. Dr. Je-Hun Ryu is the contact person for our RAC located at the Department of Geography at the Korea National University of Education, and in Turkey Prof. Dr. Barbaros Gönençgil is responsible for our RAC located at the Department of Geography at Istanbul University. Click here to get an overview of the active RACs and contact details, here for an upcoming events calendar, and here to see a world map showing activities in your area. Click here to meet the people behind the RACs and hear more about their institutions and projects.  Tell Your Story Competition goes live! Find out more here! Call for Proposals - World Humanities Conference 2017 The world Conference will accept proposals of sessions, symposia and of papers. The sessions are organized under the sub-topics of six sections, as in the attached list; it is possible to propose sessions within the sections, until November 1, 2016. The symposia are organized by a professional association or a specific group, and should address a specific theme not covered by the sessions. Symposia proposals must include a minimum of six papers by different participants, and may be proposed until January 31, 2017. The papers are submitted for any of the sessions listed in the attachment and the conference website, and may be submitted until March 30, 2017. More informations here. Science Council of Japan promotes the IYGU The Science Council of Japan (SCJ) organizes the Symposium"Promotion of grassroot activities towards realization of sustainable society: an IYGU initiative". The event will be held in SCJ's Main Hall on December 3. Sponsors are the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU), Japan Organization of Geographical Sciences (