Calling on young change-makers: the Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth is looking for the next generation of Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)!

On 14 February 2022, UNU Senior Vice-Rector Sawako Shirahase spoke at the “8th SDGs University Lecture” on the topic: “SDGs from the perspective of gender and diversity: Constructing a better future”. From a sociology point of view, Prof. Shirahase highlighted why gender equality has not improved in Japan for more than six decades and discussed how urgent it is for us to create a diverse society..

The global CO2 emissions and energy demand numbers are based on the IEA’s detailed region-by-region and fuel-by-fuel analysis, drawing on the latest official national data and publicly available energy, economic and weather data.

In its new report the Energy Transitions Commission outlines the role of Carbon Dioxide Removals in meeting global climate objectives. The analysis in this report describes how CDR, alongside rapid and deep global decarbonisation, can give the world a 50% chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.