Vladimir Smakhtin is the former Director of the UNU Institue for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). He has 30 years of experience as a researcher and manager in the broad area of water ...

Dr Jack O’Connor is a senior scientist in the Environmental Vulnerability and Ecosystem Services section at the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security. 53–70, Jingumae 5-chome, Shibuya-ku, ...

May 2023 — With the launch of the new United Nations University (UNU) global website platform, Our World has been integrated ...

Professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. She was formerly the Director of the UNU Institute of Advanced Studies, Operating Unit Ishikawa/Kanazawa ...

Our World magazine shares expert views, research and commentary on contemporary affairs of relevance to the mandate of the United Nations. This award-winning web magazine, brought to you by the United ...

Lead at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health. She has spent 20 years in academia with positions at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), ...

If global carbon emissions continue to rise at their current rate, humanity will eventually be left with no other option than a costly, world war-like mobilisation, scientists warned this week. “It’s ...