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COVID-19 Reports, April-August 2020: What the Experts Expect and Advise(July 30th 2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has already changed our world and is still underway with no end in sight. The crisis will likely continue over several years, if not longer. Some countries are beginning to slowly re-open after lockdown, while other countries are facing a sharp upswing in infections, (Brazil, Mexico, India, and Russia) In the US, infections and hospitalizations in some states are declining, but increasing in most states as of late July. -
The Lancet COVID-19 Commission(Jeffrey D. Sachs and Five Others, The Lancet, July 9, 2019)The Commission seeks “to help speed up global, equitable, and lasting solutions to the pandemic.” A key aim is to enhance “awareness and adoption worldwide of successful strategies to suppress transmission.” Holding its first meeting on June 23, the Commissioners are leaders in health science and delivery, business, politics, and finance from across the world. -
How COVID-19 is Changing the World: A Statistical Perspective(UN Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities, May 2020, 87p)“COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. Everything has been impacted.” New statistical records are being set on an almost weekly basis. The CCSA has compiled “a snapshot of some of the latest information,” derived from 36 international organizations and assembled in four broad categories: economic, social, regional and statistical. -
Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19(United Nations, March 2020, 24p)The pandemic is “a defining moment for modern society. This call for action asks every country to step up with public, private, and civic sectors collaborating to suppress transmission and stop the pandemic, cushion the economic effects for people, and learning from the crisis. -
COVID-19 Strategy Update(WHO, April 14, 23p.)The World Health Organization gives an overview over the current situation, key insights, and national and international strategies. “Countries must do everything they can to stop cases from becoming clusters and clusters from becoming explosive outbreaks.” Speed, scale, and equity must be our guiding principles. -
Forecasting Covid-19’s Course(Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 20, 14p)Commentary by the CSIS Senior VP on the pandemic as a “history-altering event,” with no “V-shaped recovery for major economies.” Presents three scenarios: Best Case (U-shaped recovery), Worst Case (5-10 year vaccine timeline, collapse of global trade, no global leadership), and Mixed Case (fall 2021 vaccine, uneven recovery, China as leader). -
Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America(Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, Majority Staff Report, June 30, 2020)Formed in Jan 2019, the Committee held 1000 meetings with stakeholders and 17 official hearings. “American leadership and ingenuity are central to solving the climate crisis.” Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, “We cannot wait…while the harmful human and economic costs of inaction continue to compound.”
Statement of Purpose
The Security and Sustainability Guide seeks to identify and briefly describe international organizations, and nation-oriented organizations of possible international interest, that are focused on the two basic human goals of Security and Sustainability–both broadly defined.
Security Organizations are concerned with human security, human rights, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, terrorism, nuclear issues, weapons, cyber-security, military organizations, etc. Sustainability Organizations focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable development, food security, water security, energy security, economic security, oceans, biodiversity, human population, green business and economics, etc.
There are thousands of guides to countries and cities, as well as flora and fauna. It is time for some guide to the rapidly growing number of security and sustainability organizations. But this is no easy matter, because human organizations are in flux, intertwined, and more difficult to classify.
Please excuse errors and inconsistencies; the S&S Guide is a continuing work-in-progress.
Access to these hundreds of organizations is provided here in several ways:
- A dashboard of 6 generic categories and 20 sub-categories on the Generic Categories Dashboard
- An alphabetized Major Categories Index of 60 categories with 5 or more listings.
- An alphabetized Subject Index of 1000+ categories.
- An index to 150+ Information Portals for additional information on security or sustainability.
- An A-Z Title Index of 2,000+ organizations.
- A keyword search function.
THREE IMPORTANT MESSAGES:
In addition to providing information on like-minded organizations and the wide range of organizations associated with security and sustainability, the S&S Guide has three key findings:
