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    • Engineering for Sustainable Development: Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals 

      UNESCO; International Centre for Engineering Education (UNESCO, 2021)
      The report highlights the crucial role of engineering in achieving each of the 17 SDGs. It shows how equal opportunities for all is key to ensuring an inclusive and gender balanced profession that can better respond to the ...
    • The ocean: time to turn the tide 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2021)
      Less than twenty per cent of the world's oceans have been explored so far. That is not a lot. But it is enough for us to know that the oceans are threatened by global warming, acidification, and pollution. Coral bleaching ...
    • Restoring biodiversity, reviving life 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2021)
      Year after year, scientific studies are condemned to chronicle the sixth mass extinction - the decline of living organisms, the loss of species, the over-exploitation of resources, and the degradation of natural ...
    • Should we be afraid of neuroscience? 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2022)
      In the field of neuroscience, reality has already surpassed fiction. Who could have imagined that it would one day be possible to implant false memories in an animal's brain, or to dictate a text to a computer by using ...
    • Water People and Cooperation 

      UNESCO (UNESCO, 2015)
      The initiation of IHD had a profound effect on the conduct of hydrological research in Canada. The setting up of a series of small representative and experimental basins in which instrumentation and measurement ...