Tag: Global Topics

To fight poverty, we need more climate action (Joe Cerrell, Khalifa Al-Kuwari, Al Jazeera)

With COP26 ongoing, much of the global climate discussion focuses on efforts to reduce and curb greenhouse gas emissions by turning to cleaner and...

Countering transnational crime demands greater global cooperation (Tuan N Pham, East Asia Forum)

Transnational organised crime (TOC) is becoming an increasingly global problem that will require international and interagency coordination, network analysis and information sharing. Drug trafficking accounts for...

Nuclear powers seek to agree positions on non-proliferation – Russia’s deputy UN envoy (TASS)

The world's five nuclear powers (Russia, the United States, China, the United Kingdom and France) are actively trying to agree their positions ahead of...

Virtual Health for All (Ann Aerts, Project-Syndicate)

The COVID-19 pandemic has sharply accelerated the use of digital technologies in the health sector. For many who could no longer obtain in-person care,...

Who’s making the grade on climate change education ambition? (Christina Kwauk, Brookings)

The release of the 6th IPCC report on the physical science of climate change this year raised the alarm around the urgency to act on the...

Beyond the $100 billion: financing a sustainable and resilient future (Amar Bhattacharya, Nicholas Stern, LSE)

In this policy note Amar Bhattacharya and Nicholas Stern set out where we are on developed countries’ climate finance pledge to developing countries and...

Mobile gaming, perché è il vero tesoro di Apple e Google (Riccardo Berti, Franco Zumerle, Agenda Digitale)

L’ecosistema di app che Apple e Google “custodiscono” nei loro Play Store costituisce il più importante ritorno economico dell’ecosistema che questi due colossi del settore degli...

Robotics as a service: come funziona il modello di business e perché è interessante per le PMI (Antonio Frisoli, Agenda Digitale)

Il modello di business “Robotics-as-a-Service” è basato sul noleggio di un sistema robotico inteso come servizio completo, in particolare come servizio riconfigurabile con l’integrazione di un...

Is Meta’s Facial Recognition Retreat Another Head Fake? (Kara Swisher, New York Times)

Facebook, oops, Meta — boy, this is going to take some getting used to — announced this week that it would end its decade-old...

Can innovation save the planet? (Dan Peleschuk, Atlantic Council)

The twenty-sixth United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP26) on climate change kicked off this week with major pledges to end deforestation and reduce methane emissions. But...

The G20 risks becoming a mini-UN. That’s a bad thing (Hung Tran, Atlantic Council)

The Group of Twenty (G20) nations came of age during the great financial crisis of 2008 to hash out major economic and financial regulatory...

State Department’s Clean Energy Demand Initiative Brings Together Companies and Countries to Meet Clean Energy Goals (US Department of State)

Today at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and the Bureau of Energy...

‘Energy day’at COP26: Voices call out for an end to use of coal, gas and oil (UN News)

Fittingly, the sun broke through the clouds over Glasgow on Thursday as delegations and participants prepared for ‘energy day’ at COP26, one of the...

By 2030, half world’s population will be exposed to flooding, storms, tsunamis (UN News)

By the year 2030, an estimated 50 per cent of the world's population will live in coastal areas which are exposed to flooding, storms and tsunamis. By...

Supply chain disruptions and bottlenecks dampen the global economic recovery (Otaviano Canuto, Center for Macroeconomics and Development)

Scarcity of inputs and goods has been felt all over the world because of disruptions to global value chains since the beginning of the...

Launching the First Movers Coalition at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (US Department of State)

At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the United States announced the launch of the First Movers Coalition, a new platform for...