9月23日、国連総会がニューヨークで未来サミットのために招集された。同サミットは、国連の歴史における最も困難な時期の一つに開催された：ウクライナとガザでの戦争が大国を直接的な ...

平和と安全保障2024年10月30日ソフィー・ブッデンホルン, アダム・デイ国連大学 ...

Robert Blasiak from the UNU Institute of Advanced Studies had the opportunity to interview Allan Savory during several bus rides in Nairobi. Savory is a Zimbabwean-born biologist, farmer, game rancher ...

Globally today, we are witnessing an “inexorable intensification of violence” in the world’s armed conflicts. The result is that there are currently 59.5 million refugees worldwide. And among that ...

I am an addicted eco-sinner with big feet. Big carbon-excreting feet that is. Well, at least this is how I imagine introducing myself if ever I attended a carbon-emitters anonymous meeting. Such ...

Caring for the Earth and for our environment seems to have been a notion dear to humankind since the dawn of time. Even to this day, many of those societies that are deemed “primitive” for having ...

The Dayak Kenyah people live in the lungs of the world. Deep inside the lush rainforests of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo, they have coexisted in harmony with their forbidden ...

Japan’s housing market is an oddity in the world for its obsession with newness. More than half of the country’s homes were built after 1980, and only 13% of existing stock are houses that were ...

The 60th anniversary of the first recorded climb to the top of Mt. Everest on 25 May 1953, and Yuichiro Miura’s recent success in summiting the world’s highest peak have once again brought mountain ...

Food is treated as a private good in today’s industrial food system, but it must be re-conceived as a common good in the transition toward a more sustainable food system that is fairer to food ...

With a population of five million crammed on a landmass of just 715 square kilometres, the tiny republic of Singapore has been forced to expand upwards, building high-rise residential complexes to ...

It is hard to believe but sustainable development will celebrate its 25th birthday in 2012. The World Commission on Environment and Development, commonly referred to as the Brundtland Commission, ...