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Albert Wenger • Climate 101, Part 1 with Albert Wenger
2015, the United Nations negotiated one of the world’s most powerful policy documents. Over 15 years, it will influence more than $2.5 trillion of development aid along with trillions from national budgets.
Bjorn Lomborg • Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
roughly half of the population over its lifetime and an average of 11,000 unique daily visitors.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
impacts means global economic growth of some 2.24% a year rather than 2.30%.
Joseph Romm • Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Apesar de enfrentarmos enormes desafios, fizemos tremendo progresso. Essa é a visão de mundo baseada em fatos.
Ola Rosling • Factfulness: O hábito libertador de só ter opiniões baseadas em fatos (Portuguese Edition)
Across a wide range of indicators, consumption growth is outpacing population growth. To get a feel for how this consumption may increase in the future, we need to look at resource and income inequality today, and at how the gap between materially rich and poor communities might narrow.
Paul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
Considerable development took place in the decades after World War II and, more recently, following the end of the Cold War. The proportion of people living in extreme poverty (defined as those living on less than $1.90 per day) is down from 40–50 percent of the world’s population fifty years ago and more than one-third of the population as recentl
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
From 1980 to 2005, the weight of the materials used to produce a dollar of GDP fell about 30 percent on a worldwide basis, or 1.2 percent a year. Because output grew more, there was a 45 percent increase in materials use overall.