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...

On the morning of 30 November 2017, the ‘Face to Face with SDGs - Meet SDGs’ High-end Forum (Session 2) hosted by Institute for Sustainable Global Development of Tsinghua University (TUSDG) was successfully held in the ground floor auditorium hall of School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University (SPPM). The event was hosted by Professor Xue Lan, Director of TUSDG and Dean of the S...

​December 5, 2017On the morning of November 29, 2017, the "Meet SDGs" High-End Forum, hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University (TUSDG), was successfully held in the Auditorium Hall of the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University (SPPM).The Forum has invited Ms. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International and former P...

On 10 November, the Solar Geoengineering and Policy Workshop on Improving Solar Energy Utilization was successfully held in Beijing. The workshop was co-hosted by the the School of Public Policy & Managment, Tsinghua University (SPPM) and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS), and organized by the Institute of Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG), with the parti...

The 2nd New Civilization Future and Sustainable Cities Forum was held at Tsinghua University from 24 to 25 October.  Entitled 'New Technology, Entrepreneurship and Urban Development', the forum was co-hosted by Yeosijae Future Consensus Institute, the Institute of Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG) and China Institute for Science and Technology Policy (CISTP). The foru...

The North East Asia Multistakeholder Forum on SDGs was held on 10-11 October at the Yuyang Hotel in Beijing. The meeting was co-hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG) in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).The forum gathered mo...

In response to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University established the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, the first interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, cross-departmental and multidisciplinary research institute on SDGs in China, to strengthen scientific research, talent training, international cooperation and exchange in the field of Sustainable...