Events

The aim of the UNU Global Seminars is to enhance awareness about contemporary global issues and the role of the United Nations in addressing those issues. Students and young professionals are given the opportunity to interact with distinguished scholars and…

This webinar is the 2nd of three webinars exploring ways to promote positive peace, leading to UNESCO’s March Regional Dialogue on building a peaceful and sustainable future in Asia-Pacific. This second webinar explores current issues such as the climate crisis, natural…

Andalas University in cooperation with Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, will organise a webinar to discuss the current major issues in disaster risk reduction and their implication on higher education under the title, ‘Natural and Non-Natural Disaster Risk Reduction and…

UNESCO is organising a series of regional online launch events of the ESD for 2030 Roadmap which provides guidance for Member States and other stakeholders for the implementation of the new global framework ‘Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the…

UNU-IAS will co-organise a webinar on the theme of Sustainable Lifestyles for a Green Recovery: COVID-19 and the SDGs, with Sophia University, the Ministry of the Environment Japan (MOEJ) and the Global Environment Outreach Centre (GEOC). This webinar will be…

The 3rd webinar for the Disaster Risk Reduction Education Series (DRR-Edu Series), will be on the theme, ‘Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation: Context, Approach and Praxis’. This event is one of the webinar series conducted collaboratively…

The Circular Economy (CE) is often viewed as a strategic lens arising from a resource scarcity challenges where access to resources or landfill pose constraints that encourage prudent use of resources. Resource rich nations such as Australia have been considered…

This event is a WCEF side event organised by OPN SBC, which will focus on circularity in the housing sector in relation to material use, design considerations, technology and affordability. Panellists from India, Sri Lanka and Australia will present related…

‘Accelerating transition towards achieving the SDGs during and after the COVID-19 pandemic’ United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) will organise a ProSPER.Net Webinar on Sustainability in Higher Education, ‘Accelerating transition towards achieving the SDGs during…

Join UNESCO for a global series of online workshops on how to transform society through learning with ESD, launching in September 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tragic impact on human life around the world: killing hundreds of thousands…