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Lives and Livelihoods: Assessing the Near-Term Impact of COVID-19 on US Workers
Notable Reports
As of March 30, three-quarters of Americans were living under state or local stay-at-home mandates or advisories, and the economic fallout has been swift and dramatic.  “Up to one-third of...
COVID, Labor, Risks
States’ Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Climate Change: 2020 Update
Notable Reports
The document contains an overview of the project (22p) and four annexes that synthesize the works of CIEL committees that monitor compliance of state with the obligations laid out in...
Climate Change, Human Rights
Leveraging Blockchain Technology for Innovative Climate Finance under the Green Climate Fund
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This report provides insight into the interaction of global politics and technology regarding blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) by which data are recorded, shared and synchronized across a network...
Climate Change, Finance
COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint. Part 2: Effective COVID-19 Crisis Communication
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“Messages from government leaders and even public health officials have been all over the map, leaving in their wake much confusion and anxiety.”  Fairly well-established principles too often ignored include...
COVID, Health
COVID-19: Potential Impact on the World’s Poorest People
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Currently, “821 million people regularly go to bed hungry.”  Due to the economic and logistical consequences of COVID-19, “the depth and breadth of hunger will increase worldwide.” Describes countries at...
COVID, Food Security, Poverty & Inequality
National Coronavirus Response: A Road Map to Reopening
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Outlines “steps that can be taken as epidemic transmission is brought under control in different regions” Phase 1: Slow the Spread - Lists thresholds for action and 8 required steps:...
COVID, Guidelines/ Framework, Policy
How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus
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The  magazine views the pandemic as “a world-shattering event whose far-ranging consequences…will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later.”  It...
COVID, Futures, Systems Thinking & Analysis
Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the Socio-Economic Impacts of COVID-19
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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...
COVID, Systems Thinking & Analysis
Pandemics—Lessons Looking Back from 2050
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An idealistic scenario from 2050, looking back to the origin and evolution of the coronavirus over the last three decades, where there is widening human awareness of how the planet...
COVID, Health
WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2019
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An annual survey of global climate indicators (temperature, greenhouse gases, and ozone, oceans, cryosphere, high-impact events) and climate-related risks to human health, food security, population displacement, marine life, and biodiversity)....
Climate Change, Indicators