Sustainable Science: Yesterday’s Trainees Become Today’s Experts
The mangrove forests, seagrass beds and thousand-year-old coral reefs of Cuba play host to rare, vulnerable species and commercial fish alike.
IAEA Event at European Development Days to Focus on Role of Nuclear Science for Sustainable Development
Nuclear techniques can help countries achieve several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) or to track their progress towards the achievement of these targets.
World Oceans Day: IAEA Helps Reduce Plastic Pollution
The ocean and its wildlife are strangled in plastic. About 10% of the 100 million tonnes of plastic that the world produces every year ends up in the ocean. This debris poses a threat to animals, which ingest it or get entangled in it, and also to people who eat the fish contaminated by the chemicals that the debris releases.
IAEA Participates in COP21 as One UN for Climate Action
The IAEA is participating in side events at the Paris Climate Conference, COP21, over the next two weeks, and is also hosting an exhibit in the One UN Exhibit Area themed “Sustainable Industries and Energy.”
IAEA “much more than just the world’s nuclear watchdog”: Director General at Sustainable Development Summit
Director General Yukiya Amano represented the IAEA at the historic Sustainable Development Summit in New York, where he underlined the importance of nuclear science and technology in achieving the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).