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Global Risks and Challenges – A Quick Look at Security Organizations
Global Security is an elusive term with several definitions. According to Ken Booth, Global Security Threats can be divided into global existential threats and global emancipatory threats. Global existential threats,...
Global Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
Note: This is a preliminary version that will be updated soon. The 21st century has proved itself as very complicated. As a result, international institutions and national actors struggle to...
Greening Capitalism, Quietly: Seven Types of Organizations Driving the “Necessary Revolution”
The full report is available here: Greening Capitalism Final, May 2017, 46 p.Greening Capitalism, Quietly: Seven Types of Organizations Driving the “Necessary Revolution” First published in CADMUS, 3:3, May 2017,...
Higher Education for Sustainability and Peace: A QuickLook at PhD Programs
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...
Human Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
The concept of Human Security While the traditional notion aims to defend a nation-state in its territorial integrity through increased military means, human security focuses on the individual. This concept...
Human Security, International Security, Security | Strategic Studies, United Nations Agencies | Programs | Projects
Interoperability Creates Hope
The past is beating the dickens out of future Dr. Michael E. Mann made a fundamental contribution to the "Observed Climate Variability and Change" chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on...
Climate Change Communication, Environmental Activism, Global Cooperation, Systemic Change, Transformation
Migrants & Refugees: A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
According to the UN, the “growth in the number of international migrants has been robust over the last two decades, reaching 281 million people living outside their country of origin...
Our Common Agenda: Review of Five UN75 Reports
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...
Books | Reports, Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Agencies | Programs | Projects
Plastic Pollution – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
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...
Putin’s Folly and Rethinking the SDGs
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....
Security and Sustainability, Sustainability Leadership, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals
Regional Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
Today we live in a world with numerous areas of power and no institutions adapted to address its contemporary security challenges. For instance, China and other countries in the Southeast...
Report on Global Reports, 2020-2021: The Whale and the Minnows
Global Sustainability Reports As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes in some countries, while spreading in others, vaccines are becoming available, although distribution is still problematic in many locations. Reports on COVID...
Report on Recent Reports – #2, Summer 2022
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...
Report on Recent Reports – Spring 2022
Reporting on a Fragile World Widely appreciated, high-quality, evidence-based information and advocacy is needed to advance the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals--especially in light of the dual global setbacks...
RRR3: Report on Recent Reports, Fall 2022
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...
Climate Change, Foresight, Futures Research, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Support, Water Futures
Scientists Reporting: Top 25 Recent Online Reports on the Global Environmental Emergency
The information revolution in recent decades has produced floods of knowledge, opinion, disinformation, and entertainments in many new formats. Who should we consider for evidence-based thinking about the complex...
Biodiversity Assessment, Books | Reports, Climate Change Assessment, Environmental Assessment, Environmental Health, Environmental Research, Environmental Risk Analysis
Sustainable Fashion – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
The global fashion industry is one of the largest, most resource-intensive industries, and a powerful engine for global growth and development. In its current state, there is no sustainable fashion...
UN Sustainability – A QuickLook at its Major Programs
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...
Water Security: A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
The 2021 United Nations World Water Development Report estimated that “4 billion people live in areas that suffer from severe physical i.e. seasonal water scarcity for at least one month...
What COVID-19 can teach us about Change, Acceptance and Dissent
COVID-19 is the current focal point, not only of media and politics, but of our societies as a whole. Looking at how it reshaped so many parts of our daily...