16 youth activists partner with GPE to transform education

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Global Partnership for Education's (GPE) youth leaders are supporting GPE’s financing campaign to transform education systems in the lowest income countries in the world. As the coronavirus pandemic puts school and learning further out of reach for children globally, they are raising the alarm and calling for support to education.

Education for sustainable development and the climate emergency: ‘Bending the curve for climate change (UNESCO, 10th Feb)

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"Education has been recognized as a crucial element to counter climate change and is one of the priority areas of Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) because it has the power to transform the way people feel, think and behave. Education contributes to raising awareness on the physical mechanisms and the emergency of climate change and its impacts".

Global Sports Week

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With support of President Emmanuel Macron as well as the patronage of UNESCO, the second edition of the Global Sports Week is taking place from 1 to 5 February 2021 in Paris. The theme of this year edition is “F​or an innovative and sustainable sports economy - reinvention in action​” and is structured around 6 ‘SHIFTS’ - lifestyle, equality, power, data, climate and health.

Bloomberg Innovation Index

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South Korea is the most innovative nation followed by Singapore, Switzerland and Germany according to the recently published Bloomberg Innovation Index

Democracy Index 2020: In sickness and in health? (ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE UNIT)

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Democracy was dealt a major blow in 2020. Almost 70% of countries covered by The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index recorded a decline in their overall score, as country after country locked down to protect lives from a novel coronavirus. The global average score fell to its lowest level since the index began in 2006.

The Future of Asian Cities (UN-ESCAP)

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Radical proposals to truly transform cities in the Asia Pacific under the following pillars: 1) Future of Urban Planning, 2) The Future of Urban Resilience, 3)Smart and inclusive cities , 4) The future of urban finance Investing in healthy cities

FIFA launches major new global education programme to strengthen and build safeguarding capacity across football

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FIFA has announced the launch of the FIFA Guardians Safeguarding in Sport Diploma – a major new global education programme designed to strengthen and professionalise safeguarding standards across football.

UK TREASURY REVIEW: Nature is a blind spot in economics that we ignore at our peril, says Dasgupta Revie

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Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta’s review presents the first comprehensive economic framework of its kind for biodiversity. It calls for urgent and transformative change in how we think, act and measure economic success to protect and enhance our prosperity and the natural world.

Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

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A global forum on the most relevant topics for humanity Join Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs for monthly interviews with renowned authors about their groundbreaking work in history, social justice, sustainable development, and more.

Top 10 Insights from Climate Science in 2020

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Produced by Future Earth, The Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme, the report highlights the latest insights and findings in matter of sustainability.

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