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The 11th ASEAN+3 Leadership Programme on Sustainable Consumption and Production took place from 11-14 November, 2019 in Bandung, Indonesia. Organised by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia, the ASEAN Secretariat, and the Hanns Seidel Foundation (Jakarta and Hanoi…

The 10th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) was held 3-7 November, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand, under the theme ‘Local Knowledge, Communication and Global Connectivity’, and was jointly hosted by the Faculty of Environment, Kasetsart University, the Thailand Global Warming Academy under the patronage of the Nabhamitra Foundation, and the World Environmental Education Congress Network. This biannual event, and the first to be held in Asia, brought together delegates from across the globe, focusing on education for the environment and sustainability, with the aim to enhance local knowledge within the global spotlight in terms of environmental education.

From 18-19 October, 2019, ProSPER.Net members gathered in Sendai, Japan, for the 13th General Assembly and 19th Board Meeting, hosted by the Miyagi University of Education. The meeting began with reports on ProSPER.Net Activities and completed joint projects, followed by…

** Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, unfortunately the 2020 ProSPER.Net Young Researchers’ School (YRS) has been cancelled. ** Hosted by Tsinghua University under the theme ‘Big Data on Earth System Science for Sustainable Development’, the YRS will provide participants with…

On 30 July, 2019, the UNU-IAS ESD Project presented a session, ‘Next Step of ESD for Achieving the SDGs’, in cooperation with the Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center (OECC), at the 11th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2019),…

Engineering Approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Towards Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific Region The 2019 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme was held from 24th – 30th November in Quezon City, the Philippines, and was hosted by the University of the…

The ProSPER.Net Secretariat would like to invite members to submit self-nominations to host the upcoming ProSPER.Net programmes and events for 2020. Over the years, the network members have taken turns in hosting ProSPER.Net General Assemblies, Board Meetings, the Young Researchers’…

On 27 March, 2019, UNU-IAS, jointly with UNESCO Bangkok and the Ministry of the Environment Japan (MOEJ), organised a side event at the 6th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development 2019 (APFSD 2019) in Bangkok, Thailand. The topic of the event focused…

Twenty-one participants from across the Asia-Pacific region recently took part in the 2019 ProSPER.Net Young Researchers’ School (YRS), hosted by Universitas Gadjah Mada, held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from 3rd – 12th March, 2019. Participants included Masters and PhD students from…