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Education for Sustainability and the SDGs: A Short Guide to Advocating Organizations
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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
Alternative Energy – A Quick Look at the Leading Organizations in the Field
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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
Young Leaders for Sustainability: A QuickLook at Inspiring Activists
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Young leaders are not just aspiring leaders of the future, but, in recent decades, appear as major factors in raising awareness of and popularizing the most urgent problems of our...
Leadership, Sustainability, Youth
Higher Education for Sustainability and Peace: A QuickLook at PhD Programs
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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
Air Pollution: A QuickLook at Organizations Working Towards Clean Air
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There is an increasing desire to understand how to stop air pollution. Each year, it is responsible for some 7 million deaths worldwide. This includes indoor air pollution (which kills...
Air Quality, Pollution
Global Risks and Challenges – A Quick Look at Security Organizations
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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,...
Risks, Security
Human Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
Original Content, QuickLooks
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...
Development, Human Security
Regional Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
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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...
Security
Youth Groups: A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
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The hope for resolving our world’s greatest problems is nested in future generations: in the power of youth and organized youth groups. Since adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution...
Futures, Leadership, Youth
Climate Coalitions – A QuickLook at Global Alliances
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Climate change is the major long-term global issue for the next decades.  The August 2021 IPCC report from Working Group 1, on “The Physical Science Basis”, warns that human influence...
Climate Change, Cooperation