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World Agri-Tech’s South America Summit spotlights the vast potential the region holds in scaling innovation and driving the global transition to sustainable and climate-smart farming practices.

With a regional content focus and international delegation, the summit offers a platform for sharing best practice, making new connections, and forming long-lasting business relationships.

The African Youth SDGs Summit is Africa’s largest youth forum on the Sustainable Development Goals. Launched in 2017, the Summit has evolved to bring together a multi-sector coalition of youth, development experts, government and UN entities, NGOs and the private sector to create the Africa we want together.

Once again, the African Youth Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit will be held both virtually and physically. We look forward to welcoming participants across Africa and around the world to connect and participate virtually, alongside a limited, in-person gathering of participants in Accra,Ghana.

Connect, network, and learn from a pan-African audience and contribute to an inspiring and constructive debate on the role of youth in the SDGs. Africa’s future is ours if we reach for it together. Are you in?

Where Innovation Powers Sustainable Business

Big ideas change the world — but only when we turn them into action. Enter Trellis Impact.
Innovation is reshaping every corner of sustainable business. Trellis Impact brings together the leaders powering the future of carbon, energy, circular economy, climate tech and beyond to spark breakthrough ideas, scale solutions, and build powerful partnerships that will drive the clean economy forward.

For 25 years the NOG Energy Week Conference & Exhibition has been privileged to partner with industry and governments to chart Nigeria’s energy growth story.

During this time NOG Energy Week has firmly established itself as a strategic enabler, delivering unique value and impact for businesses and citizens across the region’s dynamic energy market.

As Nigeria’s foremost convening platform for the international energy community, NOG Energy Week drives bold dialogue, strategic partnerships, and deal-making to advance markets and accelerate progress toward a secure, just, and sustainable energy future.

Summit Overview
Adaptation Investment Summit for Africa 2026.
The Adaptation Investment Summit for Africa 2026 (AISA 2026) is a premier Pan-African convening bringing together policymakers, investors, development finance institutions, enterprises, innovators, fund managers, and ecosystem leaders to accelerate climate adaptation finance, enterprise resilience, and sustainable investment across Africa.

Hosted in Nairobi, Kenya, the Summit will serve as a strategic platform for high-level dialogue, investment partnerships, innovation showcases, and actionable collaboration focused on building climate-resilient economies and communities across the continent.

India is one of the world’s largest agricultural producers, yet a substantial share of food is lost or wasted across the value chain. Food loss occurs during production, harvesting, storage, and transport, while food waste takes place at the retail, food service, and household levels (FAO 2019). In India, post-harvest losses are estimated at 68.9 million metric tonnes, costing INR 1.53 lakh crore annually (NABCONS 2022). At the same time, 78.2 million tonnes of food is wasted each year (UNEP 2024), making India the second-largest food waste generator globally. Beyond economic costs, food loss and food waste (FLFW) contributes nearly 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions (Zhu et al. 2013) (FAO 2013).

These losses present systemic challenges across India’s food system – impacting farmer livelihoods, access to nutrition, urban sustainability, and resilience of food value chains. For small and marginal farmers, who make up 86% of agricultural landholders, food loss is not merely a supply chain inefficiency; it translates directly into lost income and reduced resilience, particularly given limited access to post-harvest infrastructure and increasing climate risks. At the same time, food that is lost or wasted represents a missed opportunity to nourish communities, alongside the loss of valuable resources such as water, land, and labour. In urban areas, food waste highlights inefficiencies in how food is consumed, managed, and redistributed, even as nutrition gaps persist and waste volumes continue to rise. Addressing FLFW is therefore critical to building more resilient, inclusive, and equitable food systems in India.

Building on the momentum of its inaugural edition, WRI India, in partnership with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Friends of Champions 12.3 India, is hosting RESET 2026: Dialogues to Reduce Food Loss and Waste in India on 9–10 July 2026 in New Delhi. RESET is a national platform that brings together stakeholders from across government, food and agriculture businesses, producers, development partners, financial institutions, academia, innovators, bulk waste generators and civil society to advance dialogue and catalyse action on reducing FLFW in India.

RESET 2026 will focus on the role of food loss and waste reduction in strengthening livelihoods, improving nutrition outcomes, and enabling more resilient and inclusive food systems. Alongside the dialogues, an exhibition will showcase innovative solutions and technologies spanning farm-gate interventions, post-harvest management, urban food waste prevention, and waste-to-value approaches.

AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and virtually on 26-31 July 2026, comes at a crucial time for the HIV response.

In the face of an unprecedented funding crisis and major cutbacks to HIV programmes, the world’s largest conference on HIV and AIDS will unite people living with HIV, researchers, policy makers, healthcare professionals, funders, media and communities.