In her dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood gives voice to the importance of both context and experience in making sense thought action: “Context is all; or it ripeness [...]

The 2013 Parliamentary Hearing was held at United Nations Headquarters on 14 and 15 November. It was organized jointly by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the President of the General Assembly, and the President of the Economic and Social Council, and brought together close to 200 parliamentarians from a range of countries to discuss the theme “Re-thinking sustainable development: the quest for a...

The global warming and its adverse effects on the atmosphere, the biosphere, the lithosphere, and the hydrosphere are obvious. Based on this fact, the international community is fully convinced that we need to fix the problem urgently for our survival, good health, and wellbeing. The aim of this article is to promote the awareness about the United Nations (UN) historic 'Paris Agreement on Clima...

World leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000, which committed the nations of the world to a new global partnership, aimed at reducing extreme poverty and other time-bound targets, with a stated deadline of 2015. Fifteen years later, although significant progress has been made worldwide, Nigeria is lagging behind for a variety of reasons, including bureaucracy, poor resource manag...

An international science program titled “Digital Belt and Road (DBAR)” was launched in Beijing last year, aiming for the sustainable development of the Belt and Road region using Earth observation big data. This presentation firstly introduces China’s Earth observation satellites including the four remote sensing satellite series, a high-resolution Earth observation system and other Earth obser...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a broader scope and take a holistic multisectoral approach to development as opposed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While keeping the health MDG agenda, SDG3 embraces the growing challenge of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors. The broader scope of the SDG agenda, the need for a multisectoral approach and the emphasis on eq...

Digitalisation has enjoyed rapid acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic on top of already fast-paced expansion impacting almost every aspect daily life. Digital twin technology, which is considered a building block Metaverse and an important pillar Industrial revolution 4.0, also received growing interest. Apart from its significant contribution to intelligent manufacturing, there been consi...