Newsletter Beyond the Horizon On the «Road to Bern» to the UN World Data Forum

The third edition of the United Nations World Data Forum (UNWDF) will start on Sunday, 18 October 2020, in Bern, Swit-zerland. The preparation of the UNWDF is underway. The Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) and its partners are working closely with the UN Statistics Division as well as the programme committee to prepare the Forum. When FSO decided to send in a bid to host the UNWDF, it not only wanted to organise an en-vironmentally sustainable event, but also wanted to make the discussions, the exchange, the outcomes and finally the com-mitments of the UNWDF sustainable. The Road to Bern starts on 1 January 2020 and runs until the opening ceremony of the UNWDF. It will support the exchange on topics that will be dis-cussed at the UNWDF 2020 and foster the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Switzerland.