Nov 2, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship
A series on deep collaboration strategies for deep decarbonization in support of UN Sustainable Development Goal #13 ONE The 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris, COP21, is not going to solve climate change, but the meetings will advance a new international...
Oct 30, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security, Human Rights, Peace & Conflict
Using data from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), a Finnish data visualization site, Lucify, created a stunning interactive graphic that shows the magnitude of the refugee crisis. “We aimed to convey the magnitude of the crisis in a way that is intuitive, memorable and...
Oct 29, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
1/3 of the global population is on the wrong side of the digital divide, without the ability to go online regularly. The reasons for this are simple and the solutions are complex: devices are expensive, mobile networks are few and far between, and power sources are...
Oct 28, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Health & Human Security
A new report from the Nature Climate Change Journal, written by researchers from MIT and Loyola Marymount University and supported by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science has inspired dramatic headlines. The report predicts that the effects of human...
Oct 21, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
The newly elected Oslo city council, made up of representatives from the Labor Party, the Greens and the Socialist Left, have announced a plan to ban cars from central Oslo by 2019, the date of the next municipal elections. The plan is part of a platform focused on...