The news of Pakistan’s ongoing climate catastrophe has crowded out the headlines, but the long-term and actual effects of Pakistan’s floods are yet to come. The devastation has caused over 1,350…
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Both of us remember the moment in 2015 that leaders from all 193 countries at the United Nations unanimously agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). After three years of negotiation, at…
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For years, environmental researchers have been trying to understand if providing a decent living for everyone on Earth would be at odds with reaching our most ambitious climate goals. After all, eradicating…
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One year ago, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAAP) was launched at COP26 with an urgent mission: to change the trajectory of greenhouse gas damage while ending…
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Working from “home” in a parking lot. Job interviews on laggy Zoom calls. Students trying to log onto class from a cell phone. For all of the already devastating and bitterly unequal…
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Click here for more.I used to compete in international tournaments and perform as a boomerang stuntman. My first stunt was called William Tell: I would throw the boomerang out 30 or 40 yards…
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Click here for more.In the summer of 2012, Fernando Assad and two colleagues began navigating the maze of squat, tin- roofed structures that make up one of São Paulo’s largest favelas for weekly…
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Click here for more.On January 16, 1920, alcohol became illegal across the U.S., ushering in, paradoxically, a golden age for cocktails. For the next 13 years, until Prohibition ended, secret speakeasies became the…
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Click here for more.Russia’s attack on Ukraine highlighted both the enormous fragility of our global system and the growing divisions among companies about their response, says Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, one…
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Click here for more.One of my strongest memories from my youth is the sting of my mother’s humiliation. She was a civil society leader in Somalia and founded Horn Relief (now called Adeso)…
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While potential is universal, opportunity is not. In the American South, where the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation (MRBF) works, slavery, segregation, and a host of laws, policies, and practices have entrenched white supremacy, delivering…
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The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program invites you to join us for a special conversation with author and law professor Dorothy A. Brown to celebrate the launch of her new…