The United Nations University (UNU) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) have launched an annual series of seminars and workshops to provide delegates in New York with skills and understanding of issues related to sustainable development, in particular the linkages between policy and practice.

Session I, 25-26 March 1999
Trade and Environment : The Millennium Round of Trade Negotiations

Session I, March 6, 1998 Overview
The Evolving Role of Sustainability Goals in the National Planning Process

Session II, 15 April 1998 Programme,  Overview
To organize a seminar for delegates to the United Nations and other selected participants, to review policies and practices in the context of the upcoming debates at the sixth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and in the general framework of Chapter 36 of Agenda 21: Education, Public Awareness and Training.

Session III, 14 October 1998,  Programme,  Overview , Climate Change Resource Library (with GEIC)
To review the policy dimensions of the Climate Change debate as it relates to the agenda of the Fourth Conference of Parties (COP4).