On 24 May 2018, with the approval of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wu Hongbo, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, was formally appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University and Co-Director of the TUSDG. The appointment ceremony was held at the SPPM of Tsinghua University, where Professor Yang Bin, Vice ...

On the afternoon of 27 March 2018, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Geosciences at Columbia University, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General, and Chairman of the International Academic Committee of the Institute of Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG), visited and held a working meeting with TUSDG faculty ...

On the afternoon of March 21, 2018, "Meet SDGs" High-End Forum No.2 was successfully held in the Auditorium Hall of the School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM), Tsinghua University.  The Forum was hosted by SPPM and co-organized by the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG) and HZ Books.Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor of ...

On 7th-8th February 2018, the inaugural Global Engagement & Empowerment Forum on Sustainable Development (GEEF-SD) was successfully held in Seoul, Republic of Korea. This forum is co-hosted by the Institute for Global Engagement and Empowerment (IGEE) and the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens. Setting “putting People and Planet at the Center” as its main theme, the Forum served as a plat...

Getting started with the SDGs in universitiesis a guide to help universities, higher education institutions, and the academic sector in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific to accelerate their contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Guide highlights the important role universities have in implementing the SDGs through their teaching, research, operations and leadership,...

On 7-8 February 2018, the Global Engagement and Empowerment Forum on Sustainable Development was successfully held in Seoul, South Korea. The Forum was co-hosted by the Institute for Global Engagement and Empowerment (IGEE) and the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens. With the theme of ‘People and Planet at the Centre’, the Forum aims to provide a platform for exchange and sharing among al...

The 48th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was held from 23 to 26 January in Davos, Switzerland. The theme of this year's meeting was ‘Building a Common Destiny in a Divided World’, with 70 Heads of State and Government and 45 heads of international organisations attending. Liu He, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Director o...

On 25 January 2018, the Institute for Sustainable Global Development, Tsinghua University (TUSDG) formally appointed Nikhil Seth, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, as an International Advisory Committee Member for a term of three years, and Professor Xue Lan, Director of TUSDG, presented him with a letter of appointment on behalf of Chairman Yang Bin at the World Economic Forum...

On the afternoon of 20 January 2018, the initiating meeting of the major program of the National Social Science Foundation ‘Research on the Construction of the Assessment System of the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda and the Path to its Realization’, hosted by the Institute of Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG), was successfully held in Conference Room ...

On the morning of 13 December 2017, the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (Tsinghua SDG Institute) held a regular work meeting with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Patrick Haverman, UNDP Country Deputy Director in China; Li Ming, Project Manager of UNDP China; Ge Cheng, Assistant to the Deputy Director of UNDP China; Xue Lan, Professor of School...