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Prof. Dr. Manfred Fischedick, Scientific Managing Director, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, discusses the need to mobilise investments that shape a sustainable, climate-friendly, resource-efficient and, not least, resilient economy.
14.04.2020
“The only thing missing right now is an invasion by extra-terrestrials,” is what a friend who works as a journalist said to me at the weekend. Her words seemed to sum up the strange situation in which our society currently finds itself. Over the months to come, decisions will be taken that determine our lives in the 2020s.
14.04.2020
Kareem Buyana, from the the Urban Action Lab at Makerere University, Uganda, shares his thoughts on urban health systems in developing and developed cities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
14.04.2020
Bapon Fakhruddin discusses why the COVID-19 pandemic requires thinking and decision making supported by a data ecosystem which looks much further into the future than previous short-term approaches.
10.04.2020
“It is high time to reduce the vulnerabilities of migrant workers”, says Amina Maharjan, Senior Specialist in Livelihoods and Migration at ICIMOD, Kathmandu. Amina Maharjan is second up in the Global Research Programme on Inequality’s (GRIP) miniseries of interviews on the current COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the multiple dimensions of inequality.
06.04.2020
Commentary from Prof Dr Awg Bulgiba Awg Mahmud, Professor of Epidemiology at the Dept of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Malaya, and, Secretary-General of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia.
03.04.2020
The COVID-19 threat has shown that governments can act swiftly and resolutely in a crisis, and that people are ready to change their behavior for the good of humanity. The world must now urgently adopt the same approach to the existential challenge of climate change.
01.04.2020
CODATA, World Data System, the Research Data Alliance and Global Open FAIR outline their joint commitment to work together to identify the opportunities and needs that will trigger federated infrastructures to service the new reality of data-driven science.
31.03.2020
The survey aims to explore global risks and opportunities for recovery and transformations from COVID-19
30.03.2020
2020 has become the year of coping with COVID-19. This year was to be the “super year” for sustainability, a year of strengthening global actions to accelerate the transformations required for achieving the 2030 agenda. We argue that 2020 can and must be a year of both. Thus we call for more utilisation of the health-emergency disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) framework to complement current responses to COVID-19 and the patent risk of similar phenomena in the future.
27.03.2020
