人工知能（AI）がイノベーションの礎として歓迎される時代において、しばしば見落とされがちな情報の正確性と真実性の違いをよく吟味する必要がある。AIの予測や分析の正確性は人を ...

今年9月、国連加盟国は一世一代の会議のためにニューヨークに集まる。「より良い明日に向けた多国間の解決策（multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow）」のテーマの下、未来サミットで世界の ...

Just last week “The New Climate Economy” (NCE) report was released with much publicity. Its main message is that investments in “green energy production, transport and industrial development” will ...

There are two sides to every story. But in some cases, society must admit that only one is right. The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories delivers a most compelling collection of ...

During her time in Bangladesh conducting research for the Gibika project on behalf of the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), the International Centre for Climate Change and ...

Does climate change cause conflict? It really depends on who you ask. Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa is the title of a new research paper tabled in the Proceedings of the United ...

With a population of five million crammed on a landmass of just 715 square kilometres, the tiny republic of Singapore has been forced to expand upwards, building high-rise residential complexes to ...

Caring for the Earth and for our environment seems to have been a notion dear to humankind since the dawn of time. Even to this day, many of those societies that are deemed “primitive” for having ...

The forests stretching from Mexico through Central America have some of the richest species diversity on the planet. But despite expansive conservation efforts, this region continues to face ...

Land has breath, an umbilical cord, nose, mouth eyes and ears… everything that exists on earth is alive. Altai is a harmonious co-existence of humanity and nature. This is traditional wisdom of the ...

Although reforms of the institutional framework for sustainable development have been discussed for decades, both in scholarly and political terms, the process has not yet shown an indication of ...

It is often said that in developing countries “biodiversity policy is development policy”. Which biodiversity (and for whom) and which development (and for whom), however, remain unanswered questions.