Sep 20, 2015 | Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing, Human Rights, Peace & Conflict, Poverty Alleviation
Richard Curtis, the film-maker known for hits like Love Actually and Bridget Jones’s Diary, as well as for his work with Comic Relief, is the founder of Project Everyone, a collaboration with the UN to give prominence to the Sustainable Development Goals. The...
Aug 12, 2015 | Advocacy Networks, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
Today is “World Elephant Day,” a day that celebrates the special beauty of the big animals, but also underlines the issues of poaching and trafficking of these remarkable animals and other wildlife being victimized by the illegal wildlife and ivory trade....
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 29, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
As social media explodes with #CeciltheLion postings, and the Internet descends on the man who killed the magnificent animal, WildCRU.org (the organization monitoring the tracking collar that recorded the movements and behaviors of the popular lion) has moved past the...
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...
May 17, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Operational and Delivery Networks
Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel prize in 2009 in part for her observation that communities can solve the “crisis of the commons,” the problems caused by some people taking a “free ride” on the benefits of common resources at the expense of the...
