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3. “. Empowering 8 billion minds with mobile technology. ”. — Murali Doraiswamy, Professor at Duke University, Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies. The year is 2030. Imagine this: a young man called Ajay lives in India. In his teens, he experienced an episode of depression.
03:52. In the run-up to the adoption of Agenda 2030, civil society urged that development must be about freedom from fear and freedom from want. People need good living standards, but they also need civil and political freedoms, not least so they can ensure that the benefits are evenly spread. The UN Secretary-General has made a fervent appeal ...
The Great Reset agenda would have three main components. The first would steer the market toward fairer outcomes. To this end, governments should improve coordination (for example, in tax, regulatory, and fiscal policy), upgrade trade arrangements, and create the conditions for a “stakeholder economy.”
The SDGs were agreed upon at a UN summit in September 2015 by a staggering 193 countries. Announcing them to the world, the UN declared: “We resolve, between now and 2030, to end poverty and hunger everywhere; to combat inequalities within and among countries; to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies; to protect human rights and promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
New York, USA, 13 June 2019 – The World Economic Forum and the United Nations signed today a Strategic Partnership Framework outlining areas of cooperation to deepen institutional engagement and jointly accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The framework was drafted based on a mapping of existing ...
SDIM24 highlights: Connectivity and bridging gaps - plus some surprising stats. From report launches to sessions, here are the highlights of the World Economic Forum's Sustainable Development Impact Meetings (SDIM24), held from 23-27 September in New York. Linda Lacina and Pooja Chhabria. September 27, 2024.
The UN’s Global Roadmap sets out milestones the world must reach to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. It includes no new coal power plans after 2021 and $35bn annual investment in access to electricity by 2025. The UN also wants to see 30 million jobs created in renewable energy by 2025. Without deep decarbonization, the goal of the Paris ...
The Great Reset. To suggest that humanity is living through a defining moment is perhaps to underestimate the nature of our present situation. Phrases such as "on a cliff-edge’ or “point of no return” would better define the challenges that we face on our planet today. The first six months of 2020 have been totally disrupted, not only by ...
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – part of a wider 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These eight goals, set by the United Nations back in 2000 to eradicate poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease, expire at the end of this year. Figure 1: The Millennium Development Goals.
The future of work may see little regulation from companies that prevent them from doing what they like, while workers will enjoy fewer benefits like health insurance, pensions and long-term employment. The Blue World – corporate is king. Corporations grow so big and influential that some become more powerful and larger than national economies.