Dec 4, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks
C40 Cities, a GSN working on the sustainable development issues of climate change in urban centers, awarded 10 cities with the annual C40 Cities Award. The award program, launched in 2013, recognizes successes in programs that reduce emissions and improve...
Dec 3, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Operational and Delivery Networks
The 10% Resilience Pledge program was announced by the 100 Resilient Cities global solution network in November. The program urges mayors to promise 10% of their cities’s annual budgets toward resilience projects and goals without raising any extra funding or...
Dec 1, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security, News
The Fight Against Gender Violence has a Color Orange is the new hot shade when it comes to fighting violence against women and girls. Demonstrations and activities using the bright signature color have been going on around the world for several months, with the...
Nov 30, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
Marches around the World — a Silent March in Paris Organizer Avaaz.org changed the plans for the feature climate march in Paris on the fly—canceling the planned demonstrations out of concern for participants’ safety in the wake of the terrorist attacks—and got...
Nov 23, 2015 | Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Clinton discuss the current perception of climate change versus the way the vast majority of scientists view it.