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Economics·19 January 2022

Millionaires group calls for wealth tax at virtual Davos

ZURICH, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A group of more than 100 billionaires and millionaires has issued a plea to political and business leaders convening virtually for the World Economic Forum: make us pay more tax.

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Charities·19 January 2022

Data for good: connecting organizations with data experts to solve humanitarian issues

Data for good started out as a social movement several years ago when it sought to understand how data science could be used to address a range of humanitarian issues. Leading this movement was DataKind , a collaborative network of…

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Climate·18 January 2022

Top 10 largest NGOs in the world

See also: Non-governmental organizations – everything you need to know

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Climate·16 January 2022

MEG exhibition on indigenous rights, an issue close to International Geneva’s heart

The Geneva Ethnography Museum (MEG) mixes history, artistic expression and activism to retell the story of indigenous peoples’ struggle for their rights, with Geneva as one of the battlegrounds.

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Climate·14 January 2022

Seven ways museums are responding to the climate crisis

SFER IK in Mexico, an interdisciplinary arts space within the Azulik resort complex near Tulum, designed by the architect and eco-hotelier Eduardo Neira, known as RothPhoto: courtesy of Azulik

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Climate·11 January 2022

Climate Change and the Challenges to Human Security in the Global Order

Climate Change and its multidimensional multi-layered impact on humanity represents the biggest challenge to different forms of security, with a particular bearing on various aspects of Human Security.

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Climate·6 January 2022

The world feels fragile, but we can recover from the blows we’ve suffered

Rather more than half of the population of Afghanistan is facing levels of food shortage not seen for decades. Just under 1,500 people died in the Mediterranean during 2021, attempting to flee to a safer environment. The likelihood of…

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Climate·4 January 2022

2021 Year in Review: Climate action, or blah, blah, blah?

This year saw another steady stream of UN -backed reports reinforcing a stark message: man-made climate change is an urgent and even existential threat to life on Earth. Will the international community’s efforts to tackle the crisis, as…

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Climate·2 January 2022

UNITED NATIONS: Why 2022 will matter for climate action

As the world picks up speed in its race against climate change and moves forward from the 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference, let’s look at ten key global events in 2022 that will shape critical conversations and influence public…

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Climate·2 January 2022

5x15 at COP26: Arts and the Imagination

Responsible investing at Rathbone Investment Management. We see it as our responsibility to invest for everyone’s tomorrow. That means doing the right thing for our clients and for others too. Keeping the future in mind when we make…

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Humanitarian·27 December 2021

2021 Year in Review: UN support for countries in conflict

Long-running conflicts continued in Syria and Yemen this year, whilst fresh unrest caused serious instability in Myanmar, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and Sudan. United Nations “Blue Helmet” peacekeepers suffered losses and injuries,…

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Climate·26 December 2021

Climate intelligence, an opportunity to boost climate resilience

Climate intelligence is becoming an increasingly popular technology as it enables the prediction of climate risks in advance, making public and private entities more resilient to the extremes caused by climate changes. Although it is still…

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Charities·13 December 2021

Global refugee pact: have countries made progress or are they dangerously off track?

A girl looks over the Umm Rakouba refugee camp for people who fled the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, December 2020. (AP Photo / Nariman El-Mofty)

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Education·9 December 2021

UNITED NATIONS: Human Rights Day 10 December

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home -- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. [...] Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.…

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Climate·9 December 2021

COP26 PLATFORM

Contribute to the News Feed and read and share Stories from a broad spectrum of sources - UN, Climate Action, News Media, The Climate Coalition, Museums and Galleries, Charities and NGO's - all with a common cause, to raise awareness and…

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Dwelling·30 November 2021

The people power lottery : Global Assembly

When Susan Nakyung Lee , fresh out of high school, heard of the plan for a global citizen assembly, she was surprised. Surely, she thought, this existed already. A few Google searches later, she realised that what seemed to her like common…

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Climate·24 November 2021

Peter Bakker: Big business climate pledges must be measured

As the Cop26 hype begins to settle down, the glass half-full or half-empty analysis on the outcomes of the Glasgow climate conference continues to pour out. But while government negotiators were entrenched in meeting rooms until late hours…

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Climate·24 November 2021

UNICEF: Climate Crisis - Act on Child Rights

UNICEF NEWSLETTER For children across the globe, the outcome of the UN climate summit fell short. CLIMATE CRISIS ACT ON CHILD RIGHTS For the one billion children already exposed to the impacts of climate change, COP26 was the world’s best…

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