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David Suzuki (b.1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, environmental activist, and co-founder in 1990 of the David Suzuki Foundation in Vancouver, with c.80 staff, to create a sustainable Canada...
Nicholas Stern (b.1946, a.k.a. Lord Stern of Brentford), is Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, where he is...
“As goes the Arctic so goes the Earth.” The AMEG Declaration of Emergency (revised, Sept 2012) declares that “there now exists an extremely high international security risk of acute climate...
The flagship report of the UN Environment Programme was first published in 1997. This 6th report (GEO6), with the theme of “Healthy Planet, Healthy People,” covers climate change as a...
Produced by GRID-Arendal, a Norwegian foundation cooperating with the UN Environment Program, written by a team of 15 scientists and 12 reviewers. In addition to many maps and charts, the...
This report by the International Resource Panel looks into material resources, water, land use, environmental impacts, multi-benefit policymaking, and two scenarios: Baseline and Sustainability. It finds it feasible, that a...
A report by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water, notes the 2018 edition of the World Water Development Report (WWDR 2018) seeks to inform policy and decision-makers, inside and outside the...
Will Steffen (b.1947) is a climate change expert and researcher at the Australian National University Climate Change Institute, where he was the inaugural director (2008-2012), former Commissioner at Australia’s disbanded...
James Gustave Speth (b.1942) is an environmental lawyer, co-founder and senior attorney of the Natural Resources Defense Council (1970-1977) and founding president of the World Resources Institute (1982-1993). He previously...
Vandana Shiva (b.1952) is a scientist and environmental activist on food and agriculture, intellectual property rights, biodiversity, etc.. She defends the wisdom of many traditional practices and critiques genetic engineering,...
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A free e-infrastructure offering access to harmonized global datasets. Hosted at the University of Gothenburg, Demscore combines leading research infrastructures and databases to create a data hub with easy access… -
A research hub at the Brussels School of Governance. This centre, an alliance between the Institute for European Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Vesalius College, aims to contribute to a… -
A purpose-driven company committed to empowering organizations and individuals in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Its focus is on creating lasting impact and promoting sustainable development in line…