Aug 6, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Governance Networks
Brendan Guy, Global Policy Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council Stakeholders from governments, businesses, and civil society actors convened in Addis Ababa on July 15, 2015, to pledge funds, establish programs for the sharing of data sets, and develop technical...
Jul 30, 2015 | Cities, Climate, Environment & Sustainability, Networked Institutions
C40 Cities continues its annual program to recognize leadership and best practices with an awards competition designed to draw attention to outstanding city-oriented actions that have achieved success in the challenging environmental context. The awards ceremony for...
Jul 17, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Operational and Delivery Networks
Top US companies have joined together to launch “100,000 Opportunities,” a program that plans to hire and train 100,000 “opportunity” youth—16-24 year olds who face systemic barriers to jobs and education—with training programs and full and...
Jul 12, 2015 | Cities, Health & Human Security, Knowledge Networks
The recent Global Peace Index for 2015 recently released by the Institute for Economics and Peace has identified Iceland as the most peaceful country in the world, followed by Denmark and Austria. Global Peace Index Results Map Ranking 162 nations around the globe...
Jul 10, 2015 | At Work, Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Operational and Delivery Networks
Joan Bigham EdD, Executive Director, Global Solution Networks The Center for Financial Inclusion is continuing its work on Financial Inclusion 2020, or FI2020, a program directed at building a movement to mobilize stakeholders to achieve full global inclusion with the...
Jul 9, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks
Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow, New Cities Foundation @Greg_Lindsay School is out, summer holidays are just getting started — this might just be the busiest season on the urbanist’s conference calendar. A year ago, my June schedule included the 14th Venice...