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 2, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship
A series on deep collaboration strategies for deep decarbonization in support of UN Sustainable Development Goal #13 ONE The 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris, COP21, is not going to solve climate change, but the meetings will advance a new international...
Sep 22, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
This week the UN Sustainable Development Summit will convene at UN headquarters in New York. World leaders from 193 nations will be asked to commit to 17 Global Goals in three broad categories—end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate...
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...
Dec 12, 2013 | Blog, Governance Networks
Water is not only crucial to life—without plentiful supplies of water the world’s systems of modern agriculture and industrial production would collapse. Growing water scarcity demands new solutions, especially as the complexities of water management increase with...