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A Security Threat Assessment of Global Climate Change: How Likely Warming Scenarios Indicate a Catastrophic Security Future
The National Security, Military, and Intelligence Panel (NSMIP) analyzed the security implications of two warming scenarios: Near Term (1-2oC by mid-century), and Medium-Long Term (2-4oC). The former would pose High...
Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Ecosystem Services
Published by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, this is a powerful eye-opening work by 184 authors, summarizing some 4,000 sources. Insights: Land degradation—a pervasive, systemic phenomenon...
COVID-19 Strategy Update
The World Health Organization gives an overview of the current situation, key insights, and national and international strategies. “Countries must do everything they can to stop cases from becoming clusters...
Education Development Center
A global nonprofit advancing "lasting solutions to improve education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity." Works on "in-depth research endeavors to district- and country-wide reform initiatives" with programs providing "individuals,...
Global Energy Assessment
It "defines a new global energy policy agenda" – one that aims to transform the way "society thinks about, uses, and delivers energy." GEA research aims to "facilitate equitable and sustainable...
Global Energy Review 2020: The impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on global energy demand and CO2 emissions
A flagship report by the International Energy Agency in "response to the exceptional circumstances" its coverage includes real-time analysis of current developments. As usual, it looks into the "2019 energy...
Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance
A global initiative aiming to provide a comprehensive framework for addressing the various issues related to the mining industry. It offers independent third-party certification and verification of all mining materials....
IPCC Sixth Assessment Reports (2021-2022)
The authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, comprising 230 authors from 65 countries, has announced four “AR6” reports from its three Working Groups. In particular, to prepare these reports, the...
Landscape Assessment of Financial Flows Lessons learned from pilot implementation
Landscape Assessment of Financial Flows (LAFF) is appropriate in a landscape where an established multi-stakeholder partnership has identified a set of landscape objectives that stakeholders agree on and are working...
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
It aimed to "assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and the scientific basis for action needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of those systems and...
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) considered a range of information on UAP described in U.S. military and IC (Intelligence Community). The dataset described in this report is currently...
State of Green Business Report 2020
This annual report examines "the key trends and metrics about corporate sustainability: how, and how well, companies are making progress in assessing and minimizing their impacts and embracing a range...
Sub-Global Assessment Network
A community of practice, creating a common platform for ecosystem assessment practitioners at regional, sub-regional, national, and sub-national scales. It strives to "support the activities of a relevant global process...
Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education audits educational institutions through the STARS program by employing a “transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their...
Task Force Report on Measuring Sustainable Development
On 12 June 2013, the Conference of European Statisticians held under the auspices of UNECE in Geneva, endorsed a set of recommendation for a framework to measure sustainable development and...
The First National Flood Risk Assessment Defining America’s Growing Risk
A national and state-by-state flood models presented are the "culmination of decades of research and development" from "a multitude of resources and techniques" that "builds on previously peer-reviewed scientific research."...
The Fourth National Climate Assessment
A massive two-volume effort from the U.S. Global Change Research Program that was mandated by the U.S. Congress, and thus escaped the head-in-sand climate change denial of the Trump administration....
World Water Assessment Programme
The UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) commissioned the WWAP to produce a UN system-wide periodic global overview (at first triennial, now annual) of the status (quantity and quality), use,...