UNU is a think-tank for the United Nations System and is dedicated to the generation and transfer of knowledge and the strengthening of individual and institutional capacities in furtherance of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. It began operations in 1975 as an autonomous organ of the United Nations General Assembly.
THE MISSION OF the United Nations University is to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States.
UNU Conversation Series: The Economic Crisis
UNU brings together important global intellectual and policy voices, including Olivier Blanchard, Francois Bourguignon, Noam Chomsky, Richard Cooper, Robert Johnson, Eisuke Sakakibara, Joseph Stiglitz, in a multimedia intellectual forum on the economic crisis entitled "UNU Economic Crisis Conversation Series".
UNU supports research on the causes and effects of global warming, the development of viable solutions and their implementation. Learn more at www.unu.edu/climate.