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Ban Ki-Moon Says It's Time For Investors To Cut Some Checks For Renewable Energy

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told hundreds of investors on Wednesday that they should aim to double the amount of capital they commit to clean energy production by the ...

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Gender

Melinda Gates: Let’s Put Birth Control Back On The Agenda

The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world’s social change issues depend on ensuring that wom...

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Environment

Good News: The Global Doomsday Clock Hasn't Clicked Any Closer To midnight

The Iran nuclear deal and movement on climate change prompted the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, to keep it unchang...

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WEF Creates Task Force With Carney, Rajan To Study Global Financial System’

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has created a new task force with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and his counterpart at the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, to s...

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Gender

It's Time To Break The Chains Of Dependency For Girls And Women

Throughout history, girls and women have often been invisible outside the home. Even now, in 2016, there are countries where women are prevented from getting a job, from ow...

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Environment

India Cuts Carbon Emissions By 12%

India has successfully submitted its first ?Biennial Update Report? to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).The report states that the Energy Sector contr...

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Gender

Gender Gap Persists At World Economic Forum

“Davos Man” is being urged to broaden his circle, to include more women.With no lines for women at the bathrooms and corridors filled with men in suits, the Wor...

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Environment

Animation: 100 Years Of Global Warming In Less Than A Minute

Nasa has released a powerful illustration of Earth's long-term warming trend between 1880 and 2015Nasa has released a powerful animation mapping global warming trendsbetwee...

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Sustainable Development

From Davos: This Idea Could Transform Global Food Systems

Global food security is a hot topic here at the World Economic Forum (WEF). Will we hit on an easy solution to this enormous challenge in five days in Davos? Of course not....

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Book Lovers’ Books

For bibliophiles, books about book lovers offer an additional thrill…of belonging to a special community that lives its own universe of words.

The idea o...

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