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On 13-15 November 2019, UNITAR with the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Governance (DPIDG) of UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as partners on board conducted a training workshop on Integrated policies and policy coherence for SDGs for the Caribbean SIDS.. This three-day regional event held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, aimed to strengthen the capacities of senior government officials to promote an institutional shift in their countries from linear plannin...
29 August 2019 Yokohama, Japan - TICAD7 official side-event panel discussion, "Building Bridges for Peace in South Sudan", has successfully concluded in Yokohoma, Japan. H.E. James Wani Igga, Vice President of South Sudan joined the panel along with Hon. Onyoti Adigo Nyikwec, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security of South Sudan. Mr. Nihkil Seth, Executive Director of UNITAR, moderated the discussion. Besides, the panel included Mr. Takeshi Akamatsu, Deputy Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Mr. Samuel Rizk, Head of Conflict Prevention, Peacebuildi...
11 April 2024, Geneva, Switzerland - UN CC:Learn and the Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education Project (MECCE) are shedding light on the state of online climate change learning among adults worldwide.
Building on a collaboration that was established in 2022, UN CC:Learn and the MECCE Project, an international research initiative bringing together over 100 leading scholars and agencies hosted by the University of Saskatchewan, have developed a new global indicator that gives a proxy measure of the engagement of adults in online learnin...
For centuries, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) have been driving anthropogenic climate change. If the world is to reign in the devastating effects of rising temperatures, countries need to step up their efforts to halt carbon emissions. But how can they do that? Putting a price on carbon may be an integral part of the answer. Several countries across the globe have implemented carbon taxes or intend to do so. Currently, there are 64 carbon pricing initiatives in place, covering 22.3% of global GHG emissions.
Mindful of the untapped opportunities that ...
17 May 2019, Geneva, Switzerland - A vital skill set indispensable to the work of diplomats and global actors is the ability to engage relevant stakeholders in effective negotiation processes needed to drive action and build consensus among parties. It is therefore important for them to prepare ahead and equip themselves with the relevant communication and interpersonal skills as well as understanding the various negotiation contexts that exist, identifying tensions and facilitating their peaceful resolution.
With the aim of transmitting these skills in participants o...
April 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - UNEP, UNSIAP and UNITAR are delighted to announce a new self-paced e-learning course – “Environmental SDG indicators”. Targeted primarily towards National Statistical Offices, Ministries of Environment, civil servants, and other stakeholders that support broader national sustainable development monitoring and decision making. The course comprises 10 individual modules, that provide an overview of all 25 SDG indicators under UNEP custodianship, due to vast thematic knowledge, each module can be regarded as a stand-alone module and taken...
UNITAR aims to strengthen the understanding of public officials in all areas of the world regarding Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks vis-à-vis their roles as policymakers and regulators, especially in the creation of legally binding standards and reporting requirements in their national contexts., This certified e-learning course, “Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Frameworks for Public Officials,” is interactive and self-paced. The overall aim of this course is to build the capacity of policymakers and regulators to foster policy coherence b...
September 2021 - Crowd4SDG Consortium has launched the second GEAR Cycle of the project. This year the project aims to address two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – Goal 13 on Climate Change and Goal 5 on Gender Equality. With its launch, it calls for projects that will aim to tackle climate change and gender challenges with crowdsourcing solutions. This is an open challenge competition that uses crowdsourcing as a way to gather information or stimulate actions taken by large numbers of ordinary citizens. Individuals or teams can propose projects at the scale of ...
24 March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR Road Safety Global Training Initiative and the International Road Federation (IRF) joined forces to deliver on the 18th of March of 2021 a Master Class on Management Practices for Safer Roads, in the framework of the International Road Federation regional conference on Connecting Asia-Pacific with Smart, Safe and Resilient Roads.
During this Master Class, 180 senior government authorities from Ministries of Roads and Public Works, as well as representatives from the private sector were introduced by UNITAR to the “Management Pra...
26-27 November 2018, Johannesburg, South Africa - UNITAR in collaboration with eThekwini Municipality, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Durban (CIFAL Durban) and AB InBev, hosted the two-day “Road Safety Africa Conference” in Johannesburg.
These road traffic–related deaths and injuries have unparalleled health and socioeconomic implications on society, particularly in areas with such high rates of death and injury. Given this, United Nations member states have set the goal of reducing road traffic deaths and injuries by 50 percent by the yea...