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Report on Recent Reports #4, Winter 2022-2023
Original Content, Reviews
Polycrisis: Probable; Remedies: Possible                A wide variety of organizations and individuals have recently warned of multiple global crises.  Some have used the term “polycrisis,” defined by the Cascade Institute...
Development, Disasters, Energy, Environment, Risks, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals
Alternative Energy – A Quick Look at the Leading Organizations in the Field
QuickLooks
Introduction While fossil fuels continue to dominate energy production and consumption, the press of climate change has made it abundantly clear that the ecological costs of greenhouse gas emitting power...
Alternative Fuels, Energy, Renewable (Clean) Energy
Education for Sustainability and the SDGs: A Short Guide to Advocating Organizations
QuickLooks
Our world is amid multiple crises, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.  This includes a crisis in education and learning, notably at K-12 levels, where many...
Education/Training, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals
Higher Education for Sustainability and Peace: A QuickLook at PhD Programs
QuickLooks
This QuickLook on Higher Education for Sustainability and Peace presents a list of PhD opportunities covering areas of one or more UN Sustainable Development Goals. Information is derived from institution...
Education/Training, Sustainable Development Goals
Our Common Agenda: Review of Five UN75 Reports
Reviews
Reviewed Reports: Our Common Agenda: Report of the Secretary General (UN, Sept 2021, 84p)Our Future Agenda: A Vision and Plan for Next and Future Generations (UN, Sept 2021, 54p)Shaping Our Future...
Sustainable Development
Plastic Pollution – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
QuickLooks
The Problem “In 2019, the production and incineration of plastic added more than 850 million metric tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Current plans for plastic production and use...
Plastic, Pollution
Putin’s Folly and Rethinking the SDGs
Essays
Download as PDF 1. Prologue: A Lose-Lose War At the time of this writing, the vicious and unwarranted Russian invasion of Ukraine is still underway, with no end in sight....
Human Security, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals
Report on Recent Reports – #2, Summer 2022
Reviews
Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals Advancing the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals requires evidence-based information and advocacy that is widely disseminated and cited.  Transdisciplinary approaches are especially required, exemplified...
Foresight, Futures, Sustainable Development Goals
Report on Recent Reports #3, Fall 2022
Original Content, Reviews
INTRODUCTION: Multiple Crises, Multiple Solutions.  The UNDP’s latest Human Development Report (3.1) provides thorough discussion of multiple crises and “the new uncertainty complex,” as well as fresh insights on how...
Foresight, Futures, Sustainable Development Goals
UN Sustainability – A QuickLook at its Major Programs
QuickLooks
Note: This is a preliminary version that will be updated soon. In 2015 The United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals as the “2030 Agenda.” It marked the moment when...
Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals