Our World
WEBMay 2023 — With the launch of the new United Nations University (UNU) global website platform, Our World has been integrated into the UNU website and will shift to become a curated collection of UNU's latest commentary, news, multimedia, and event-related content. This original Our World website (ourworld.unu.edu) will remain available during the transition process, however, all new English ...
United Nations University - Our World
WEBUnited Nations University. 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 research on the pressing global problems of human survival, development, and welfare. UNU’s global network of specialised ...
The Magazine - Our World - United Nations University
WEBOur World 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 Nations University (UNU), exchanges these insights through video briefs, articles, debates, photo essays and public events.. Our World was first launched in July 2008 primarily as an environmental ...
Welcome to Our World - Our World
WEBOur World is a webzine and video brief series from the United Nations University. We focus on global affairs—beginning with climate, oil, food and biodiversity — at a time when we are witnessing a convergence of these issues. It is ever more clear that everyone will be affected by the resultant problems. No one can say: “This does not ...
New Research Says Plant-based Diet Best for Planet and People
WEBIn the study, published in the November 12 online edition of Nature, the researchers found that as incomes increased between 1961 and 2009 people began consuming more meat protein, “empty calories” and total calories per person. (“Empty calories” — sugar, fat, oils and alcohol — now account for almost 40 percent of food purchased in ...
Seeing the People for the Trees - Our World - United Nations …
WEBThe Food and Agriculture Organisation maintains that around 300 to 350 million people are highly dependent on forests and live within or adjacent to dense forests. Estimates for the global population of indigenous peoples range from 300 to 500 million across some ninety countries worldwide, representing around 5% of the world’s population ...
The Future We Want, The UN We Need - Our World - United …
WEBAs we reflect on the 75th session of the UN General Assembly and celebrate the United Nations’ rise in the war-ravaged world some 75 years ago, humanity is again being asked to lay the foundation for a new world.. As in 1945, we are asked to envision the world that emerges from a global catastrophe. Similarly, as well, in our post-pandemic world we will need to make not a partial but a full ...
Living the Indigenous Way, from the Jungles to the Mountains
WEBScores of these largely self-sustaining traditional communities continue to this day in remote jungles, forests, mountains, deserts, and in the icy regions of the North. A few remain completely isolated from modern society. According to United Nations estimates, upwards of 370 million indigenous people are spread out over 70 countries worldwide.
Can We Evolve Beyond Money? - Our World - United Nations …
WEBNobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus’s Grameen Bank has since lent billions of dollars and shown that micro finance can be an effective and direct way of helping people lift themselves out of poverty. This model has been replicated all over the world, and individuals also provide money for loans. Solutions that come from linear thinking hold a ...
Debate: Not in My Backyard - Our World - United Nations …
WEBOpposition by residents to nearby development proposals is referred to as NIMBYism, the acronym of Not In My Back Yard. One case in point was reported by Treehugger this week: North Carolina’s state senate has voted overwhelmingly (42-1) in favour of a ban on mountaintop wind turbines. Supposedly this came out of residents protesting the ...
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