Electronics are the world’s fastest-growing waste stream, and yet most countries still lack the data, systems, and institutional capacities required for effective management. UNITAR’s Sustainable Cycles (SCYCLE) Programme has not only built the world’s most comprehensive multi-level monitoring architecture—spanning global, regional, and national e-waste and material-flow analyses—but also develops the expert networks, methodological leadership, and practical system knowledge needed to support real-world transition processes.

13 March 2026, Geneva, Switzerland - New moderated training for sports organizations: The Future of Sport: Training to Win in a Changing Climate, available on-demand. The training targets staff from sports organizations looking for practical ways to address climate challenges while strengthening their operations. It is fully customizable and can be tailored to the needs of each federation, club, or event organizer, ensuring relevance across different sports contexts.

26 February 2026, Geneva, Switzerland - The University of Oxford and UNITAR, as part of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), launch the Future-proofing Business and the Economy executive programme to equip senior leaders with the skills to navigate rapid global change and the green transition.

The programme brings together expertise from five UN agencies and leading Oxford academics, combining global policy insights, cutting-edge research, and practical tools for strategic decision-making in uncertain environments. It focuses on helping organisations remain competitive, resilient, and inclusive amid political, economic, technological, and climate disruptions, offering a unique learning experience at the intersection of sustainability, policy, and business strategy.

20 February 2026, Kampala, Uganda - UNITAR, under the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) supported the First Annual African Symposium on Climate-Sensitive Macroeconomics on “Rethinking Growth in Africa’s Natural Resource Base”. The event brought together policymakers, researchers, and development partners at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, on 12–13 February 2026.

The United Nations Chemicals and Waste Management Study Programme

10 February 2026, New York, United States - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research, in partnership with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, successfully organized a briefing for delegates on the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement and Sustainable Fisheries Processes at the United Nations

2 February 2026, Geneva, Switzerland - In January 2026, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) reached a major milestone with the issuance of its first-ever digital certificate of completion. Issued on 31January 2026 by the One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn), this certificate marks the culmination of a months-long process to introduce state-of-the-art certification at UNITAR, responding to the needs of an online learning environment that continues to evolve rapidly.

30 January 2026 - This Statistical Guideline aims to address the lack of a detailed, globally agreed statistical methodology for measuring plastic flows at the national, regional, and global levels. It provides guidance to practitioners on producing high-quality national-level statistics on plastics that are comparable across countries.

1 January 2026, Geneva, Switzerland — The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has been named the new administering organization of the Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) and host of its Secretariat, marking a new chapter for the global partnership after three decades of coordinated action on chemicals and hazardous waste management and continuing the role played by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1995.

Belém, 10 November 2025 – A coalition of international partners announced the creation of the Green Digital Action Hub (GDA Hub), a new cooperation platform to harness technology innovation against climate change, anchored in Brazil as a legacy of the 30th UN Climate Change Conference, COP30.