“These Goals seem very academic and complicated, so we tried to humanize the data and statistics so everyone could see themselves in the story. […] In my role as cultural provocateur, with this project I have tried to ignite a respectful debate about moral compass, and the importance of good leadership. Because here there’s no negativity,ContinueContinue reading “#2030WhatAreUDoing? SDG ambassador for the 2018 Lavazza Calendar”
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Field Dispatch from COP23
A few days ago, I joined the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn. This was the shortest trip among my three COP participations, but on 9 November I had the opportunity to moderate a great side-event co-hosted by SDSN Youth on how public and private actors canContinueContinue reading “Field Dispatch from COP23”
Book Review of ‘Governing Through Goals’
The latest issue of Transnational Environmental Law (Volume 6 – Issue 3 – November 2017) features my Book Review of ‘Governing Through Goals: Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation’, an interesting volume edited by Norichika Kanie (Senior Research Fellow at UNU-IAS) and Frank Biermann (Professor of Global Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development) whichContinueContinue reading “Book Review of ‘Governing Through Goals’”
Environmental determinants of health: how can global health governance contribute?
The following opinion piece has appeared, in two different forms, on Sense & Sustainability and in ASviS’s newsletter. According to a 2012 study by the World Health Organization (WHO), environmental factors are directly or indirectly responsible for almost 13 million deaths worldwide, or about twenty-three percent of all deaths. Overall, more than one third ofContinueContinue reading “Environmental determinants of health: how can global health governance contribute?”
Jean Monnet Module proposal selected by the European Commission
Exciting news! The European Commission’s Education, Audiovisuals and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has selected a Jean Monnet Module proposal I wrote with Prof. Riccardo Pavoni (University of Siena) for co-funding under the Erasmus+ Programme (Call EAC/A03/2016). Among the 833 proposals received by the EACEA for Jean Monnet teaching and research activities, 141 were selected for funding. TheContinueContinue reading “Jean Monnet Module proposal selected by the European Commission”
New Policy Brief from SDSN Youth
I am happy to announce the publication of a new joint Policy Brief by UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Youth and The Social Investment Consultancy on “Supporting youth-led innovation to achieve the SDGs”, which I co-authored. The Brief, presented on 17 July 2017 at the United Nations’ High-level Political Forum in New York, outlinesContinueContinue reading “New Policy Brief from SDSN Youth”
Dario Piselli 