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Low Carbon Cities: a $17 trillion Opportunity

Low Carbon Cities: a $17 trillion Opportunity

Using carbon-reducing strategies like improving public transport, increasing building efficiency, and waste management in cities could produce savings of nearly US$17 trillion by 2050 according to a new report by the New Climate Economy. With actions such as...

Europe’s Refugee Crisis—GSNs Help Address a Global Concern

Europe’s Refugee Crisis—GSNs Help Address a Global Concern

Last week, the shocking image of a young boy drowned with 12 others while trying to escape the Syrian conflict brought attention to the European refugee crisis in brutal fashion. This incident follows a series of horrifying incidents in Europe. Reports of refugees...

Crisis Health Workers Daunted by Lack of Career Path

Crisis Health Workers Daunted by Lack of Career Path

By Valentina Jovanovski Health workers in Kenya’s refugee camps would be more likely to stick with their jobs if they were offered more training and the possibility of academic qualifications, according to a study. Healthcare assistants who are from the refugee...

Natural Disaster or Man-made Catastrophe? Ten Years After Katrina

Natural Disaster or Man-made Catastrophe? Ten Years After Katrina

  Late August 2005, ten years shy of the New Orleans levee system’s expected year of completion, Hurricane Katrina triggered a cascade of events that became a massive disaster across New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast. Katrina didn’t actually hit the city...

Youth Employment in Africa Under the Microscope

Youth Employment in Africa Under the Microscope

International Youth Day, August 12th, was a day to recognize the importance of youth worldwide. The day is particularly significant in Africa, where almost 200 million people are between the ages of 15 and 24. The population is younger than anywhere else on the...

#elegram—Every Day is Elephant Day

#elegram—Every Day is Elephant Day

Today is "World Elephant Day," a day that celebrates the special beauty of the big animals, but also underlines the issues of poaching and trafficking of these remarkable animals and other wildlife being victimized by the illegal wildlife and ivory trade. It is meant...

Global Ebola Response Found Inadequate

Global Ebola Response Found Inadequate

An independent report commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) on their efforts against the West African Ebola Outbreak has concluded that the global health emergency response apparatus is severely lacking. The chair of the report, former Oxfam chief...

Unlocking the Potential for Long-term Development Progress

Unlocking the Potential for Long-term Development Progress

Nonprofits looking to build capacities for innovative technical approaches to development face funding hurdles. Overcoming them requires more from the private sector than just funding. The promise of harnessing today’s innovation to chart a course for development to...

Global Connections—Mental Health Innovation Network

Global Connections—Mental Health Innovation Network

Over 450 million people are estimated to be suffering from mental illness globally—three quarters of whom live in the developing world—making mental health issues one of the the leading causes of disability on the planet. Yet mental illness remains steeped in stigma...

Cecil and the Plight of Lions

Cecil and the Plight of Lions

As social media explodes with #CeciltheLion postings, and the Internet descends on the man who killed the magnificent animal, WildCRU.org (the organization monitoring the tracking collar that recorded the movements and behaviors of the popular lion) has moved past the...

Megacity drought:                               Sao Paulo withers after dry ‘wet season’

Megacity drought: Sao Paulo withers after dry ‘wet season’

The large-scale problems that Global Solution Networks are working to address around the world often spill into several or all of the issue categories that GSN has identified. The disaster that is slowly unfolding in Brazil is an example of just such a situation; an...