UN Secretary-General Issues Second SDG Progress Report

06-07-2017

Nathalie Risse, Ph.D.

Nathalie Risse, Ph.D.

7 June 2017: The UN Secretary-General has issued the 2017 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) progress report, providing an overview of global progress towards the 17 SDGs on the basis of the latest available data related to the global SDG indicator framework.

Cheap Phones Churn Out Big Data

12-08-2015

MIT Technology Review

David Talbot

At a computer in her office at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, epidemiologist Caroline Buckee points to a dot on a map of Kenya's western highlands, representing one of the nation's thousands of cell-phone towers.

In threat to food security, Bangladesh moves to burn grain for fuel

04-30-2017

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Syful Islam

 

Bangladesh plans to begin turning some of the grain it produces into ethanol to make its fuel greener – but economists and experts warn the move could hurt food security in a country that is already a grain importer.

Ma Jun: China has reached its environmental tipping point

05-18-2015

the Guardian

Tom Levitt

It was almost 20 years ago that Ma Jun sat and watched the rainbow-coloured River Fen, in Shanxi province. As he turned to the skies in this coal and industrial heartland of north China he could see dozens of chimneys bellowing out their fumes.

China opens world's longest high-speed rail route - BBC News

12-25-2012

BBC News

 Media captionThe BBC's Matthew Stadlen looks ahead to the high speed line's launch

China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed rail route, linking the capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou.

Opinion | Congo's Never-Ending War

12-14-2012

JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

LAST month, as I was driving down a backbreaking road between Goma, a provincial capital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kibumba, a little market town about 20 miles away, I came upon the body of a Congolese soldier.

100 RESILIENT CITY, Pittsburgh

04-23-2017

Grant Ervin, Chief Resilience Officer

Executive Summary

Pittsburgh will be a resilient city when the entire community shares the same opportunities for prosperity, and when all residents are well cared for and prepared to face potential risks and adversities.

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