On 25 July 2025, University World News published an article on this year's Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) Global Forum, a special event of the 2025 UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) which took place in New York on the theme ¡°Breaking Barriers in Sustainable Development Through Scientific, Inclusive, and Equitable Solutions¡±.
The article explores the progress of higher education sustainability. It features comments by Jonghwi Park (Academic Program Officer, ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-IAS) on the important role that ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, one of the co-chairs of HESI, plays in advancing higher education and sustainability.
Looking ahead, Park hopes that ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ will be able to play a longer-term, more fundamental role in influencing UN policy on higher education and sustainability. Under the UN 80 Initiative, the global body is marking its 80th birthday with a review of its mandates, structure, and efficiency. And that could include giving ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ a leading role in consolidating the UN¡¯s research and educational initiatives, together with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
The full article is available on.
