Investing 2.0: Assessing True Sustainability
CREDIT: Tuomas Puuko (CC).
Bill Baue, Cary Krosinsky, Mark McElroy
We need to develop investment strategies explicitly tied to objective, science-based planetary boundaries and local ecological thresholds. > More
Briefings
We Need a Better Measure of GDP in Poor Countries
CREDIT: Nick Hobgood (CC).
If GDP is an inaccurate indicator of growth in poor countries, how can we make good decisions about allocating development aid?
Commentary
A New Development Bank for Infrastructure and Sustainability
CREDIT: Sjors Provoost (CC).
Nicholas Stern, Amar Bhattacharya, Mattia Romani, Joseph Stiglitz
The BRICs are financing infrastructure and sustainable development at home and in other developing countries.
Innovations
It's High Time for an International Environmental Court
Subject matter expertise. Compulsory jurisdiction. Standing for non-state actors. Precise and enforceable language. It's time to consider a court for the environment.
Commentary
Every Day We Put the State on Trial
Art bears a unique responsibility in the search for truth, writes Ai Weiwei as he prepares a budding Chinese civil society to imagine change.
Innovations
Innovation in Development Finance
CREDIT: World Bank (CC).
Over the last six years, roughly $6 billion has been allotted to innovative sources of development financing, and some recent proposals promise to raise far more.
Policy Library
Breaking the Binary
This Schwab Foundation guide for scaling social innovation examines case studies of policy experimentation from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
Policy Library
Oceans of Innovation
CREDIT: Thomas Tolkien (CC).
What kind of leadership will the twenty-first century require? Are education systems in the Pacific region ready and innovative enough to provide this leadership?
Innovations
Sustainable, Happy, Efficient
CREDIT: Brent Olson (CC).
Only through a composite metric of progress and happiness can governments measure and deliver what matters most: sustainable well-being.
Policy Library
Global Norms as Public Goods
CREDIT: Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (CC).
Global interdependence demands that we nurture trust, strengthen the fragile fabric of global norms, and forge a sense of global civics.
Innovations
Innovation to the Rescue
CREDIT: Internews Europe (CC).
The UN refugee agency is adopting an innovation-centered approach in pursuit of better services, products, and outcomes for displaced populations.
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