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IIASA The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a blueprint to achieve a better life for all and to ensure that no one is left behind. The partly overlapping and contradictory objectives of the SDGs can however make it difficult to assess overall progress. A group of researchers have proposed a new, tailor-made metric that measures development based on long-term human wellbeing. From science to implementation: How do we know if humankind is moving in the right direction towards global sustai...

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on women and girls, and the fallout has shown how deeply gender inequality remains embedded in the...

Date Time President Clinton to speak on future of U.S. democracy The program launches the new Milstein State of Democracy Addresses and will include questions from undergraduate students and an introduction by Bob Harrison ’76, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Cornell University and CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative. Bill Clinton Clinton and Israel will delve into the challenges faced by democracies today and what can be done to strengthen America’s democratic norms for future genera...

Date Time Share Green Party call on Fisheries NZ and DOC to do better to stop by-kill of our precious NZ seabirds Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand The Green Party can reveal that in 2019/2020, more seabirds were reported as killed by fishing than the previous four years. Figures of increased reported seabird deaths came from answers by Te Papa Atawhai/the Department of Conservation to select committee questions as part of the 2019/20 annual review process. “Aotearoa New Zealand is the sea...

13 March 2021, Baghdad/Rome - Governance, innovation and capacity building are the high roads to coping with water scarcity in Iraq and neighboring...

Elise Archer,Minister for Women The Tasmanian Liberal Government is committed to creating a more inclusive Tasmania that empowers and enables women and girls to fully participate in our economic, social, political and community life. The Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women is a significant recognition of the dedication, commitment, and hard work of many Tasmanian women. In 2021, 18 women and three women’s organisations are inducted onto the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women. Some of the inductees are...

Findings suggest sugar tax might benefit public health without harming industry, say researchers People appear to be buying and consuming less sugar from...

A new project at the Uppsala Child and Baby Lab will study children in a preschool environment. Photograph: Mikael Wallerstedt Preschool age is an...

The United Nations The world is at a critical moment to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said on Wednesday, during a virtual discussion with European Parliament Vice-President Heidi Hautala. Multilateral engagement is key to responding to the pandemic and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the deputy chief highlighted the importance of the UN’s strategic partnership with the EU. “It is a critical moment f...

Giant waterfalls, colonial ambitions, government schemes that do the opposite of what was intended, and an encrypted World War 2 document from the secret...