Dec 15, 2015 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
For the first time Saudi women have the right to vote in their country’s elections. The recent elections were historic not only for the suffrage of the women voters, but because women were also running for positions in the government. 978 women registered as...
Dec 8, 2015 | At Work, Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Knowledge Networks
The new single-topic news platform will detail the ramifications of climate change in the circumpolar Arctic. Media startup News Deeply launched its first single-topic news site Syria Deeply almost three years ago and followed it with Ebola Deeply. Both of the...
Dec 7, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity
African countries launched AFR100 (African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative), a pan-African, country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares (386 thousand square miles) of degraded and deforested landscapes by 2030. The AFR100 target of 100 million hectares...
Dec 4, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks
C40 Cities, a GSN working on the sustainable development issues of climate change in urban centers, awarded 10 cities with the annual C40 Cities Award. The award program, launched in 2013, recognizes successes in programs that reduce emissions and improve...
Dec 3, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Operational and Delivery Networks
The 10% Resilience Pledge program was announced by the 100 Resilient Cities global solution network in November. The program urges mayors to promise 10% of their cities’s annual budgets toward resilience projects and goals without raising any extra funding or...