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Opening Plenary at COP 17.

Commentary

Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Disasters are connected. Our Actions Should be Too.

18 Aug 2026

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Media Coverage

AI Does Not Eliminate The Need For Human Judgment

14 Aug 2026

Canada has reported roughly 835 active wildfires in July 2026

News

UN University: Ontario Wildfire Smoke in Mid-July Exposed North Americans to Unhealthy Air for 106 Million Person-Days in Just Three Days

13 Aug 2026

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Portrait of Ms. Kaoru Fukuda, Member of the House of Representatives and Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan

Conversation Series

Shaping the Present, Defining the Future: Youth Involvement in Public Policy

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Prof. Hugh Whittaker

Conversation Series

Trajectories of Change in the Japanese Economy

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News

News

Dark Boreal Forests of Canada Absorb Enough Heat to Cancel Up to a Fifth of Their Climate Benefit, Scientists Warn

Canada's carbon accounting ignores how much sunlight a forest reflects, and the credits built on it may overstate what they deliver

20 Aug 2026

News

Event Explores Opportunities and Lessons on Youth Participation in Sustainability

A webinar for International Youth Day 2026 launched a publication on meaningful youth engagement in sustainable development.

18 Aug 2026

Announcement

UNU-EHS at COP 17

Check out UNU-EHS involvement at UNCCD's COP 17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from 17-28 August.

17 Aug 2026

News

UNU-IAS Students Graduate from Class of 2026

An event in Tokyo celebrated the graduation of our master’s and PhD students.

11 Aug 2026

Data Centre

The Environmental Cost of AI's Energy Use

A new UNU-INWEH report quantifies the carbon, water and land footprints of AI's electricity use across the globe.
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UNU Annual Report 2025

Explore the work of UNU and learn how our ideas generate solutions to improve the lives of people everywhere.
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World Bank

Policy Brief

Operationalizing Institutional Vitality: A Framework for Analysis

14 Aug 2026

Engineering And Governing The Agent Harness.

Report

Engineering and Governing the Agent Harness: A Technology and Policy Framework for the Runtime Layer of Agentic AI

21 Jul 2026

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Collection

Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints

03 Jun 2026

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