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14 November 2016, Tokyo, Japan - The UNITAR Hiroshima Office has completed the UNITAR Hiroshima Women's Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme for World Tsunami Awareness Day 2016. Conducted in collaboration with the Government of Japan and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNIDSR), the workshop was successfully held between 30 October to 7 November 2016 in Tokyo, Sendai and Wakayama. Twenty-six senior female participants, selected from fourteen Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) including: ...
26 January 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - On 18 March, UNITAR and the University of Geneva, host the third Geneva Trialogue edition, under the theme of ”Scaling Open Innovation for the SDGs“. The Geneva Trialogue fosters communication and collaboration between academia, international organizations and the private sector, to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Open innovation can become a concrete way of advancing and accelerating progress on the Global Goals, since it is a practice of people working together in tackling problems and finding concrete resolut...
UN CC:Learn Activities Showcased at UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development
UN CC:Learn Activities Showcased at UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development
10 -12 November 2014, Nagoya, Japan - Recognizing that education can play a key role in addressing present and future challenges to sustainable development, the UN General Assembly adopted in 2002 the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), designating the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as the lead agency of the Decade. The UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) was held in Nagoya,…
20 June to 15 July 2011 - web-based - Climate Change has been at the top of the international agenda for some time now and the magnitude of the issue needs to be understood, specifically regarding the correlation between trade and environment. This sparks the debate about their relationship in terms of agreements and measures to mitigate climate change effects. In light of this ongoing debate, UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme and the World Trade Institute (University of Bern, Switzerland) are relaunching their successful e-Learning course on Trade and…
July 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme and the World Trade Institute (University of Bern, Switzerland) successfully concluded the second session of their e-Learning course on Trade and Climate Change. Twenty-two (22) officials and professionals from the public and private sector successfully completed this instructor-led four-week online course. The main course goal was to improve the participant’s knowledge of key legal and economic issues arising from the ongoing climate change debate.
The course on “Trade and Climate Change”, which…
14 October 2011, New York, United States of America – On 14 October 2011, the UNITAR New York Office, jointly with the Permanent Mission of Switzerland, organized a half-day workshop on “United Nations Reform: Institutional Adaptation of UN Governing Bodies.” The workshop opened UNITAR’s four-part series on UN reform in New York that covers topics such as management reform, system-wide coherence and new approaches to mediation and preventive diplomacy.
Yvonne Lodico of UNITAR NYO introduced the four part series and briefly explained its objectives. H.E. Paul Seger,…
Protecting One of the World’s Most Important Resources
10 December 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - Groundwater makes up the majority of the volume of freshwater which is available and easily accessible for people, and is particularly attractive as a source for potable water because it is typically relatively pure. The demand for groundwater is likely to increase in the future in order to offset declining surface water availability, as well as increased consumption and climate change. However, it is vulnerable to both over-exploitation and contamination, which may remain…
CIFAL Jeju Co-organizes International Workshop on Transforming Eco-Cities to Environmental Hubs through Holistic Waste Management
3 August 2015, Jeju, Republic of Korea – CIFAL Jeju convened thirteen central, state and local government officials and NGO workers from six different countries from Asia-Pacific for a four-day workshop on "Transforming Eco-Cities to Environmental Hubs through Holistic Waste Management." CIFAL Jeju, in collaboration with Jeju Special Self-Governing Province and UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC), held the event from 6 to…
UNITAR TICAD VI Panel on Capacity Development for African Youth
27 August 2016, Nairobi, Kenya - As part of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) VI Summit being held in Nairobi, Kenya, the UNITAR Hiroshima Office successfully held a side event focusing on "Capacity Development for African Youth: Lessons Learnt and Future Prospects". Featuring experts and youth representatives engaged in capacity development in Africa, the event reviewed the lessons learnt from activities undertaken to date by multiple organizations, and explored the challenges…
May 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - As learning is the main focus of UNITAR, students and young professional are an important target of the Institute’s work. A number of Master’s degrees in partnership with esteemed universities around the world have already successfully been launched and have become an integral part of UNITAR’s portfolio, but cooperation with universities and other institutes for higher education involves more than these instances., The Division for Multilateral Diplomacy has launched its new partnership with Seton Hall University (New Jersey, USA) in March 20...