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Upcoming Events
Previous Events
Seminar
Overview of the Civic Tech Field Guide
Reviewing the open-source project Civic Tech Field Guide with Matt Stempeck
Event
SDGs Café — Wells as an Emergency Water Source: What’s Their Potential?
ONLINE: This event will discuss the role of wells in securing water access during natural disasters, focusing on case studies from Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.
Conversation Series
The Pact for the Future and International Peace and Security
TOKYO: On 28 January 2025, UNU will host a conversation with Tadamichi Yamamoto, Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University.
Event
Celebrating the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation in Canada
Calling for urgent action to protect the world’s rapidly vanishing glaciers
Conversation Series
Japan's Role in the Indo-Pacific — the UN, ODA, and a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
TOKYO: On 23 January 2025, UNU will host a conversation with Dr. Yuka Ando, Senior Researcher at the India-Japan Laboratory of the Keio Research Institute at SFC.
Event
SCIENCE TALK: Nutrition in Transition: Transnational Land Deals and Dietary Diversity in the Global South
Transforming Rural Areas in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
BIG IDEAS Series
Planning for an Uncertain Future: Environmental Planning Strategies in Habitat Adaptation and Energy Transition
TOKYO & ONLINE: On 18 Jan. 2025, UNU will host a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Dr. Christina von Haaren, professor emerita at Leibniz University Hannover.
Event
SCIENCE TALK: Using Robust Decision Making to Explore Critical Factors in Financing Greenhouse Gas Removal Technologies Needed to Reach Net Zero
Exploring the Power of Public-Private Partnerships
Seminar
Nexus Seminar N.81: Reframing Sustainability through the Lens of Socioecological Debt
Prof. Ramutsindela's Nexus Seminar session to explore reframing sustainability through the lens of socioecological debt.
Symposium
Towards the SDGs and Beyond: How Can Global Digital Society Accelerate Transformations?
TOKYO: On 9 January 2025, UNU and Keio University will co-organize a symposium exploring how digital technologies can support achievement of the SDGs.