The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date. After uncovering the 50 most innovative urban solutions in the wake of COVID-19, the Challenge will award 15 grand prize winners $1 million each—to help cities implement their breakthrough ideas and, ultimately, to spread those ideas to other cities on a global scale.

Join us as Stimson’s foreign policy experts predict the biggest issues to watch in 2024. Through a series of panel discussions and quickfire examinations, we will highlight the most volatile and urgent issues of the new year, identify meaningful opportunities, and help set the agenda for foreign policy priorities in 2024. January 24, 2024 9:30 - 11:30 AM

The 2020 Greening the Blue report -released on 10th December 2020 provides a snapshot of the UN System’s environmental impacts throughout 2019 and the activities underway to reduce them.

The Guardian is reporting on an amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal aiming at allowing developing countries to have a say on the waste plastic they receive for recycling. The amendment to the convention will come into force from the 1st of January 2021.It will take few years to see an impact though.