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The Global Commitment to Sustainable Development: How Are We Doing?

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Global Insight by Madeleine Nicholson

Since the adoption of the SDGs, governments, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations have restructured their priorities and refined their policies, business models, and supply chains.

A green building with balcony gardens. Global Health

It's Time for Cities to Flex Their Soft Power

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Global Insight by Robert Muggah

Our international affairs are still being determined by nation-states, however, the imbalance between cities and nation-states is no longer acceptable.

View of a busy Tokyo at night time.
Andre Benz
Global Cities

The Geopolitics of Climate Change

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

As extreme weather increasingly uproots communities and economies, leading experts Simon Dalby and Joshua Busby join Deep Dish to predict how climate change will affect foreign policy.

Clouds over wind turbines
Thomas Richter
Climate and the Environment

A Huge Amount of Food is Wasted—And With It, Water, Energy, and Nutrition

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Global Food for Thought by Michael Tiboris

About 70 percent of the water humans use globally is consumed by agriculture, and a full third of the greenhouse gas emissions we produce come from food production. 

Produce section at an American grocery store.
MN Pollution Control Agency/Flickr
Food and Agriculture

Philanthropist Ertharin Cousin on fighting global food poverty

In the News
Financial Times
Ertharin Cousin

The former UN World Food Programme head is exploring new ways to end world hunger

Headshot of Ertharin Cousin Food and Agriculture

Women, Peace, and Security: Challenging Dominant Narratives

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Global Insight by Katelyn Jones

Citizens feel  disregarded and disempowered, motivating them to engage in demonstrations like the "yellow vest"  movement in France,  Black Lives Matter  in the United States, and the  #MeToo movement globally.

Protesters attack a female police officer accused of shooting a protestor in Burundi
Reuters/Goran Tomasevic
Women and Girls

Where Are the World's Most Fragile Cities?

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CityLab
Robert Muggah

Climate change, economic inequality, and political unrest are making some of the world's fastest-growing cities dangerously unstable. But even the most fragile places are fixable.

A man walks at the site of the Oct 14 bombings in Mogadishu, Somalia. Global Cities

Opinion: Recipe for Creating Zero Hunger

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AgriPulse
Ertharin Cousin

Ending hunger and chronic malnutrition remains within our grasp. However, we must recognize that there is a global reversal of a decades-long downward trend in the number of hungry people.

Ertharin Cousin speaking into a microphone Food and Agriculture

The Two Cities: Inequality in Global Cities

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Global Insight by Michael Tiboris

Is a pernicious form of economic inequality the inevitable consequence of becoming a globally powerful city?

City skyline at sunset
Tim J
Inclusion and Equity