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Building Damage Assessment of the March 2025 Myanmar Earthquake
This UNU-INWEH Incident Brief highlights how poor planning and a lack of building code enforcement amplified the impact of the March 2025 earthquake.
Event
SCIENCE TALK: Urban Flood Forecasting and Community-Based Risk Mitigation
Integrated Approaches from Mumbai to the Caribbean and New York City
Event
Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4)
Supporting reform of the international financial architecture and mobilizing investments in the Sustainable Developments Goals.
Commentary
Baku – Bonn – Belém: Incubating Collective Climate Action
UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn sets stage for COP 30 in Brazil.
Collection
The May-June 2025 Central Canada Fires: National Challenges of a Warming Climate and Cascading International Impacts
The incident brief analyzes the 2025 Canadian wildfires, their link to climate change, and the massive cross-border smoke impacts.
News
Canada’s Wildfire Crisis is a Harsh Glimpse into a New Climate Reality with Cascading Impacts Beyond its Borders, Warns New UN University Report
The Central Canada fires, over 150 times larger in area than the 2025 Los Angeles fires, exposed over 117 million people in the U.S. to heavy smoke
Side Event
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.
News
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.
News
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.
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: Mobile Internet Diffusion and Development Impacts: Evidence and Heterogeneity Effects
Trang Thi Pham, UNU-MERIT