The SDG Academy

23/09/2026

🌐 On September 30, join the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), UN SDSN I Turkey Türkiye, and SDSN Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific for “Climate Finance for Impact.”

This session will focus on how to mobilize, direct, and account for at the scale required by the climate crisis.

🗓️ Wednesday, September 30, 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM CET (7:00 AM UTC)
🔗 Register: https://buff.ly/lVg4PTX

This is the final session in our four-part webinar series, “From Science to Solutions: Mobilizing Knowledge, Partnerships and Action Ahead of COP31,” exploring pathways from evidence to implementation across key climate priorities.

23/09/2026

Join SDG Academy Special Advisor Amber Webb and partners for the ClimateIQ: Policymakers Edition panel on 'Accessing the Evidence Base for Climate Education: How Education Policy Makers Can Advance Climate Action.’

📅 October 1
🕔️ 5–6pm AEST

Despite growing support for climate education around the world, policy makers are often faced with gaps in information on what is already being done in their country and globally, and how best education policy can support climate action.

The session focuses on how policy makers can use evidence to ensure education policy delivers meaningful outcomes for students, communities and the planet.

Panelists include Project partners:
Amber Webb, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Isabel Toman, International Association of Univeristies
Manos Antoninis, GEM Report Unesco
Susie Ho, Monash University

The session will be moderated by Marcia McKenzie, The University of Melbourne and the MECCE Project.

Learn more and register at https://buff.ly/WhBhepm.

23/09/2026

If education's ultimate question is to prepare humans to live together and build flourishing societies, should we place at the center of that process a technology whose fundamental objective is not to flourish, care, or act with integrity, but to optimize?

The SDG Academy's Amber Webb explores education's rising AI-centrism in her newest blog for The Humanitas Project.

Read it here 👇
https://buff.ly/QqpiLT7

Amber Webb on AI-centrism in education and the case for decentering it.

22/09/2026

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22 September – 30 September

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21/09/2026

📚 New book!

The Global Governance of Education and Sustainable Development takes a critical look at a decade of SDG 4 and the evolution of global education agendas.
What has worked? Where do challenges persist? And what can we learn about turning global commitments into meaningful change?

Bringing together diverse perspectives from scholars and practitioners, the book reflects on the progress, tensions, and possibilities shaping global education.
Critical reflection is essential to making global ambition more meaningful.

🔗 The Global Governance of Education and Sustainable Development: https://buff.ly/G2n7bDp

UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

18/09/2026

We are delighted to share a glimpse of the 2026 SDG Academy Annual Report, reflecting on the work, partnerships, and progress that shaped the past year.

🌏️ Explore the full report: https://bit.ly/sdga2026

UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

18/09/2026

📢 We’re proud to share the SDG Academy 2026 Annual Report! 🎉

The past year has been one of learning, growth, and a continued commitment to advancing sustainable development through education.

📝Explore the report and discover the milestones, and impact behind our year.

🌏Read the full SDG Academy Annual Report: https://bit.ly/sdga2026

UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

15/09/2026

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and philosopher Professor Steven Nadler for a thought-provoking discussion of Baruch Spinoza and Nadler’s book, Spinoza: Atheist.

Together, they explore Spinoza’s extraordinary life, his excommunication from Amsterdam’s Jewish community, and his groundbreaking ideas about religion, science, politics, and human freedom. At the heart of the conversation is Spinoza’s controversial conception of God: was he an atheist, a pantheist, or something else entirely?

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UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

08/09/2026

📢 Today is the first day of the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA81)!

World leaders are gathering in New York to address, discuss, and debate the most pressing global challenges.

Throughout , join the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) for a series of high-level events exploring youth engagement in science-policy dialogues, the future of global multilateralism, and the importance of cross-regional collaboration, among other critical issues.

👉 Explore the SDSN’s events: https://www.unsdsn.org/news/the-sdsn-at-the-81st-un-general-assembly-and-nyc-climate-week

07/09/2026

We’re pleased to welcome Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and Guillaume Lafortune, Vice President and Head of the Asia Office, as the opening speakers for Global Classroom 2026.

The series will continue to bring together leading voices from around the world for weekly conversations on a range of topics related to sustainable development.

Join us for the opening lecture on September 8, at 8:00 AM Eastern as we begin a semester of conversations bringing together global perspectives on sustainable development.

Free and open to all learners.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/bFdTxtU

Join us live:
Meeting ID: 996 6774 7757
Passcode: 046428
Invite Link: https://buff.ly/kI8boVP