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Event at COP29 Tackles Siloed Policymaking on Climate & SDGs
Experts shared insights on overcoming barriers to integrated, coherent climate and sustainable development action.
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Local perspectives should shape multilateral responses to transnational organized crime
How multilateral responses to transnational criminal networks can be adapted to the realities of local communities for enhanced impact.
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Countering transnational crime to secure peace
Transnational criminal networks pose a growing threat to peace and security. What measures can UN peace operations adopt in response?
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Valeska Onken
Valeska Onken is a international development cooperation professional working at GIZ and a dual-career PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University
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UNU-EHS & UNU-VIE at UNCCD COP16
Check out UNU-EHS & UNU-VIE involvement at United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)'s Conference of the Parties (COP16).
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COP29 Event Highlights Strategies for Policy Coherence & Inclusion
An event at the SDG Pavilion explored how a socio-ecological systems approach can advance climate action.
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Challenges and Opportunities for the Economic Development of the Dominican Republic
Our PhD fellow Mercedes Menéndez writes about her presentation on 14 November at the Science, Technology & Innovation Week event in Santo Domingo.
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UNU-INWEH Partners with TECH>ID to Leverage Technology for Sustainability Transition
This partnership aims to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world applications, with a special focus on the Portuguese-speaking nations
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UNU-FLORES at COP29
Bringing the Resource Nexus approach into focus to navigate emerging challenges and opportunities
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Anna Stamatogiannakis
Anna is a Research Associate with the EVES Division, where she supports the WetlandHealth4UNGoals project. With her background in environmental science and GIS, she is particularly interested in using spatial data to analyse climate change impacts and support the development of adaptation strategies.