Nov 30, 2015 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity
Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced today that Canada is contributing $15.3 million over four years (2015-2019) to improve the lives and futures of young people in Africa. This investment will help offer the training needed to find and keep good jobs,...
Nov 23, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Platforms
Implementing climate solutions that intend to achieve the deep decarbonization of the global economy by 2050 needs to be supported with a next-generation standards system that applies the tools of the new “digital economy.” The new systems will be more efficient and...
Nov 11, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship
In her latest book, This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein quotes a solar energy teacher who tells his students: “There are times when you must accept small steps forward and there are other times when you need to run like a buffalo, now is the time to run.”...
Nov 10, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
A new report from the World Bank, Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty, shows that, unchecked, the effects of climate change could push 100 million or more people into poverty in the next fifteen years. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the...
Nov 6, 2015 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
The Legatum Insitute, a London-based think tank, does an annual ranking of countries using eight indices. Their 2015 Prosperity Index report has just come out. See the complete Legatum Prosperity Ranking data here. Among the headline findings from this...
Nov 5, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Environment & Sustainability
100 Resilient Cities (100RC), and the 100 Resilient Cities Challenge are pioneering programs created by the Rockefeller Foundation with the goal of helping cities around the world develop resilience to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing...