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).

Bill Gates

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

CREDIT: Levi (CC).

Murray Carroll

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

CREDIT: wu fake (CC).

Ai Weiwei

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).

Jomo K. S.

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

CREDIT: Lynn (CC).

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).

Eric Zencey

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).

Hakan Altinay

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).

Rocco Nuri, Neha Bhat

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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