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Climate Change – Peatlands worldwide are drying out, threatening to release 860 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year (Yuanyuan Huang, Yingping Wang, WEF)

Peatlands cover just 3% of the Earth’s total land surface but they store over one-third of the planet’s soil carbon. If peatlands dry...

Climate Change – In ten years, this ice sheet could collapse, causing sea levels to rise (Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch, WEF)

New research shows the Pine Island Glacier is closer to collapse than previously thought. Research has shown that the vulnerable glacier had sped...

Cities and Urbanization – Why we need to make planetary health part of city design (Tolullah Oni, WEF)

Planetary health, which links human health to that of the Earth's natural ecosystems, is at the heart of the African Union's 2063 goals...

Cities and Urbanization – It takes a village to build a healthy city. These projects show why (Zara Ingilizian, Mayuri Ghosh, Partha Bose, WEF)

Addressing the challenge of unhealthy lifestyles including access to improved nutrition and sanitation options is a complex problem, especially in cities. City governments...

Decarbonizing Energy/SDG09 – 5 ways to unlock a zero-carbon future for heavy industry (Christiana Figueres, Warren East, WEF)

Heavy industry accounts for around 30% of global emissions. The drive to decarbonize this sector is a challenge – but it also presents an enormous...

TechInnovation – Make sense of your BIM data by leveraging the Building layer (David Alvarez, Esri)

Now that we have geolocated our BIM model, we can start working on our BIM-GIS integration. For the first part of this blog, I am going...

TechInnovation – ArcGIS Business Analyst Enterprise now on Linux (Daniel Stauning, Esri)

An exciting new feature of the 10.9 release of ArcGIS Business Analyst Enterprise is the ability to install the system on Linux. This is a big...

USA/Trade Policy/Indo Pacific/CPTPP – Reconciling the rhetoric and reality of Biden’s trade policy (Shihoko Goto, East Asia Forum)

Even as the Biden administration continues to tout cooperating with allies to ensure stability in the Indo-Pacific, the United States is unlikely to join...

Indonesia – Maximising Indonesia’s demographic dividend (Anne Booth, East Asia Forum)

In January, Statistics Indonesia (Badan Pusat Statistik) published the first results from the 2020 population census. While these initial figures are still preliminary, they raise...
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