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2019 Global Health Security Index
“Intended as a key resource in the face of increasing risks of high-consequence and globally catastrophic biological events.” Provides 195 country profiles on health security and capabilities across six categories,...
2020 State of Climate Services: Risk Information and Early Warning Systems
This report is an annual responsibility of the WMO under the Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Early warning systems (EWS) are a top...
Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Preparedness, Hurricanes, UN Sustainable Development Goals, Weather
A Future for the World’s Children?
Argues for placing children 0-18 years old, at the center of the Sustainable Development Goals and the heart of the concept of sustainability. The health and future of every child...
A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the US
In order to save lives, reduce burdens on healthcare, ease strict distancing, and confidently make progress toward returning to work and school, the US “must implement a comprehensive system to...
A Security Threat Assessment of Global Climate Change: How Likely Warming Scenarios Indicate a Catastrophic Security Future
The National Security, Military, and Intelligence Panel (NSMIP) analyzed the security implications of two warming scenarios: Near Term (1-2oC by mid-century), and Medium-Long Term (2-4oC). The former would pose High...
Climate Change, Climate Scenarios, Existential Risks, Existential Threats, Global Catastrophic Risk Analysis
A World In Disorder: Global Preparedness Monitoring Board Annual Report 2020
The second report of GPMB, stating that “COVID-19 has taken advantage of a world in disorder,” the pandemic is “far from over,” the “lack of leadership is exacerbating the pandemic,”...
Ad-funded COVID-19 Disinformation: Money, Brands, and Tech
COVID-19 disinformation has real-world harms to public health (claims about magical solutions and disinfectants), specific groups (Chinese cover-up Jewish elite, Aryan immunity), and public order (police state, vaccine mind control,...
America’s Zero Carbon Action Plan
Approximately 100 experts developed this richly illustrated plan intended to promote the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) and the Paris Agreement. Deep transformation of six economic sectors These...
Automobiles, Beyond Carbon, Building Materials, Buildings, Buildings and Energy, Built Environment, Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Neutrality, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Pricing, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Storage, Climate Change, Climate Change Jobs, Climate Modeling, Climate Policy, Climate Solutions, Resilient Architecture
An Ethical Framework for Global Vaccine Allocation
Once effective COVID vaccines are developed, they will be scarce. Allocation among countries raises complex issues among three groups: the COVAX facility led by WHO and GAVI, producers committed to...
An investor guide to negative emission technologies and the importance of land use
Net Zero commitments and the Paris Climate Accords may well be driving a massive shift Negative Emission Technologies (NETs), which are surveyed here with the intention of highlighting the private...
Apple Corporation’s 2020 Environmental Progress Report
This detailed report covers Apple's environmental initiatives and experiences through the 2019 fiscal year, i.e., September 2019. It covers Apple's efforts to address climate change, the resources it uses, and...
AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
Since its inception, through its research on the physical science of climate change, the IPCC has been assessing the state of knowledge on climate change. It identifies agreements in the...
Arctic Report Card 2019
Report of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Published annually since 2006, these essays involve 81 scientists from 12 countries reporting on the acceleration of ice melting in a...
Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Ecosystem Services
Published by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, this is a powerful eye-opening work by 184 authors, summarizing some 4,000 sources. Insights: Land degradation—a pervasive, systemic phenomenon...
Books | Reports, Ecosystem Services | Natural Wealth Valuation, Environmental Assessment, Land Degradation Assessment
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Workshop Report
In December 2020, 50 of the world’s leading biodiversity and climate experts appointed by the IPBES and IPCC held a virtual workshop "to examine the synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity...
C40 Cities Mayors’ Agenda for a Green and Just Recovery
COVID has caused immense suffering in our cities, exacerbating a wider social and economic crisis that has wiped out 400 million full-time jobs in the second quarter of 2020. It...
Capacity Development Plan of Action 2020-2021
The purpose of Forest, Trees, and Agroforestry (FTA) Capacity Development is "to have capable forestry, agroforestry and sustainable land use research and development organizations, individuals, institutions and systems contributing to...
Capital as a Force for Good: Capitalism for a Sustainable Future
In the foreword, Antonio Guterres notes that COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on progress towards the SDGs. The report estimates the necessary fiscal stimulus in the advanced economies reaching nearly...
Moral Capitalism, Sustainable Capitalism, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development and Business, Sustainable Development Goals, Venture Capital
Climate Change and Land
This Special Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change looks into the connection between climate change and land, but also the impacts of human land use on the ecosystem....
Climate Change-Fueled Weather Disasters: Costs to State and Local Economies
Looks into the "frequency, severity, damage — and costs — from severe weather events". The EDF finds a steadily worsening trend due to the effects of man-made climate change. Weather-based...
Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Resilience, Climate Risks, Disaster Resilience, Disasters, Weather