Jun 29, 2015 | Employment & Prosperity, Poverty Alleviation
One of the UN’s MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) of 2000 was to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015, yet one in six people are still surviving on a dollar a day. Or less. Striking photos by the Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Renee C. Byer have been...
Jun 20, 2015 | Health & Human Security
Mary Milner is a fellow in the Global Solution Networks program. Collaborative Consensus Building for the Post-2015 Development Agenda In 2000, global leaders at the UN Millennium Summit adopted the Millennium Declaration in which they made a commitment to achieve 8...
Jun 17, 2015 | Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship
The fossil fuel industry is actively and aggressively lobbying national governments and funding international meetings in an effort to interfere with the development of climate policy. Delegates from industry groups are being given preferential access to delegates at...
Jun 5, 2015 | Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security
A new report by the Environmental Defense Fund, “The Potential for Global Fish Recovery,” shows that effective management of global fisheries doesn’t require a reduction in fishing per se, and, in fact, can result in both more food resources and...
