Author: Dr Nsah Mala (Kenneth Nsah). History has been made this morning of Sunday 22 Sep 2024 at the United Nations HQ in New York: The #SummitOftheFuture opened with the overwhelming adoption of the Pact for the Future and its two annexes, Declaration on Future Generations and Global Digital Compact. CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who has contributed to this great achievement!
Author: Steven Hartman. A year ago today, 22 September 2023, I took this picture on my way to the UNESCO offices in New York to meet Assistant Director-General Gabriela Ramos and Wales Future Generations Commissioner Derek Walker to discuss how we could build closer cooperations together focused on futures literacy, foresight and planning (championed by both of my meeting partners) and the humanities-led sustainability science work of the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, which I head up as Executive Director. BRIDGES is anchored in UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) programme.
Author: Steven Hartman. The ISC’s discussion paper Looking at the Future of Transdisciplinary Research by Matthias Kaiser and Peter Gluckman is a necessary provocation to a research establishment that, in the aggregate, is not sufficiently meeting the challenges of the Anthropocene and the needs of a post-carbon transition.
Author: Gareth Thomas. In an era where climate change is rapidly altering landscapes and livelihoods, the preservation of cultural heritage becomes crucial for the resilience of communities. The Coastal TALES (Coastal Trans-Atlantic Learning for Engagement and Sustainability) project, spearheaded by the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES (UK) hub at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), aims to address this challenge
Author: Luci Attala. This April I flew to Colombia to meet the Kogui, one of four Indigenous groups that live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, to discuss the design of a collaborative transdisciplinary conservation project they hope to create.
