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Air Pollution: A QuickLook at Organizations Working Towards Clean Air
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...
Alternative Energy – A Quick Look at the Leading Organizations in the Field
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...
Arctic Warming: A QuickLook at Concerned Organizations
Arctic climate change. The Arctic is more affected by global warming than any other place on earth, resulting in unprecedented physical, social, economic, and political transformations. Concern for Arctic change...
Climate Coalitions – A QuickLook at Global Alliances
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 Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
Note: This is a preliminary version that will be updated soon. Climate Security centers its attention on the "maintenance of the local and the planetary biosphere as the essential support...
CyberSecurity : A QuickLook at Organizations Addressing the Growing Threat
When reviewing the Future of Cybersecurity, in their July 19, 2021 Cover Feature on “Broadbandits,” the Economist warned of “an epoch of intensifying cyber-insecurity that will impinge on everyone,” stating...
Education for Sustainability and the SDGs: A Short Guide to Advocating Organizations
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...
Environmental Peacebuilding – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
Note: This is a preliminary version that will be updated soon. Historically, peacebuilding efforts have focused on social and economic issues. Environmental peacebuilding incorporates natural resource management into peacebuilding activities....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Young Leaders for Sustainability: A QuickLook at Inspiring Activists
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...
Youth Groups: A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
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...