Human Security and the Health Impacts of Ocean Plastic Pollution — Interlinkages between SDG 3 and SDG 14

NEW YORK: This side event of the 2025 UN HLPF will discuss how marine plastic contamination is affecting human health and well-being.

Empowering Lesotho: Unlocking Finance to Drive the Energy Transition in a Landlocked Developing Country

On 3 July 2025, UNU will co-host a symposium exploring investment towards clean energy in the Kingdom of Lesotho.

Landscape Approaches for Ocean Sustainability and Resilience

A side event of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference discussed integrated solutions to support ocean recovery that balances conservation and livelihoods.

Lisa Sharland

New UN Training Manuals to Build Capacity in AI and Cybersecurity for Women Civil Society Organisations and Women Human Rights Defenders in South-East Asia

UN Women and UNU Macau launched two facilitators’ manuals to address gendered risks in AI and cybersecurity in South-East Asia.

PhD Defence: Mobile Internet Diffusion and Development Impacts: Evidence and Heterogeneity Effects

Trang Thi Pham, UNU-MERIT

Addressing Loss and Damage in Informal Settlements: Pathways to Resilience and Equity

ONLINE and BONN: On 19 June 2025, UNU, Habitat for Humanity and UN-Habitat will co-organize a side event at the June Climate Meetings in Bonn, Germany.

Webinar Explores the Impacts of AI on Biodiversity and Conservation

UNU Rector Tshilidzi Marwala joined the AI for Good webinar series to discuss the promise and peril of using AI for biodiversity conservation.

SCIENCE TALK: Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and Sexual Health

Case Studies From Uganda and Kenya

Youth in climate, peace and security, and environmental peacebuilding

Cohort four of the 2025 Peacebuilding Fund Thematic Review on Youth, Peace and Security