The United Nations University (UNU) is a global think tank and postgraduate teaching organisation headquartered in Japan. For the past four decades, UNU has been a go-to think tank for impartial ...

On World Food Day we share the perspective of an anti-hunger and social rights activist who feels food should be a commons not a commodity.

Global food security should not only be an economic or political goal, but a moral imperative, argues former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Junko Edahiro looks at the challenges that Japan faces today and how the country can work toward returning to a sustainable, steady-state, happy society.

David Li is the Executive Director of Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab (SZOIL) which facilitates the collaboration between global smart hardware entrepreneurs and the Shenzhen Open Innovation ecosystem.

All 197 UN member countries have agreed to use the Montreal Protocol for controlling climate-change-inducing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

“Ship of Fools” is an alternative rock song with an environmental message (or at least the video helps to interpret it that way) released in 1986 on World Party’s debut album, Private Revolution. The ...

Gerontocracy (rule by elders) is a soaring and risk-bearing trend in rich countries. A new intergenerational justice index rates Italy worst in Europe.

As ocean levels rise, synthetically-made islands could be a sustainable solution to this climate change phenomenon.

On World Humanitarian Day, the United Nations honours the heroic aid workers who rush bravely to help people in need, often sacrificing their own safety.

As extreme weather events grow in intensity and frequency, nowhere is guaranteed to be safe from danger, as New Yorkers discovered on 1 September 2021 when Hurricane Ida struck.

世界各国の研究機関が構築した気候予測モデルの95%以上が、アジアモンスーン地域においてこのような極端な降雨の頻度や降水量は今後増加すると予測しており（IPCC, 2013）、この傾向は日本でも同様である（気象庁，2017）。したがって、洪水による被害は今後ますます甚大になる。