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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming part of children’s everyday lives through search tools, chatbots and recommendation algorithms. Children now use AI to find information, complete schoolwork, learn new skills, seek advice and interact online. Together with...

While the evidence base on AI and student learning is still developing, emerging research continues to identify important risks. In our Global Task Force on AI and Education report, we found that  Read more….

Overshoot is a dynamic pathway encompassing the exceedance of 1.5°C, peak warming and subsequent temperature decline. The report explores the risks and impacts associated with higher levels of warming, the mitigation pathways needed to limit peak warming and enable...

Education is one of the most powerful drivers of growth and poverty reduction. Each year of schooling that a worker attains improves productivity and wages. But learning does not end at school; workers acquire a significant share of their skills through on-the-job...

Education systems don’t struggle because they lack plans or policies. They struggle because those plans don’t translate into real change in classrooms. Across many countries, reforms set ambitious goals but stall at the point of implementation. This gap between policy...

This study examines how the vertical integration of climate adaptation can be strengthened in large and decentralized countries. Using Indonesia, Brazil and India as comparative case studies, this working paper identifies the main challenges to and opportunities for...

UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) has reached a major milestone with the adoption of Youth4Water, its first flagship initiative entirely dedicated to young people. Read more …..

Our decisions and actions today define where we end up tomorrow. In a rapidly changing world, countries are safeguarding their long-term security and resilience. But without long-term climate planning and coordinated policy and investment, people, livelihoods and...

Which interventions can make transformative impacts in shifting sustainable behavior? A new tool helps decision-makers answer that question. If everyone adopted climate-friendly behaviors like driving EVs, using renewable energy at home or eating less meat, the world...

The resolution drawn up by Vanuatu - a Pacific island nation on the frontline of the climate crisis, and several other countries - was adopted after intense discussion including multiple proposed amendments with 141 votes in favour, eight against and 28 abstentions....

The Quality of Life Initiative is a global effort to enhance urban well-being through data-driven, people-centred measurement, monitoring, and insights implemented by United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and sponsored by the Quality of Life Program...

The multilateral system has enabled cooperation among people, yet it has also enabled inequality, extraction and complicity amidst planetary breakdown. This think piece offers five provocations to reimagine global education governance and to change course. Read...