From billionaire tech tycoon philanthropy to the smallest crowdfunded community initiative, the year in philanthropy promises to test big ideas and, as always, refine the everyday hard work of grantmaking.
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“It’s about the toughest job any human being could be given,” says David Nabarro, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted unanimously by 193 Heads of State at UN Headquarters in New York in September.
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Official inauguration of Mindanao´s currently largest diesel replacement solar power plant.
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At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, 2,500 business, government and civil society leaders from over 100 countries visualized a future rich with technological advances as they addressed the forum’s theme, “Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
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Ushering in a new era of corporate accountability, a group of leading corporations and health organizations is calling for the voluntary public reporting of workforce health metrics.
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The year 2015 was Earth’s hottest by widest margin on record, and in December 2015 the temperature was the highest for any month in the 136-year scientific record, according to scientists with the U.S. space agency, NASA.
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Forty heads of state and government, as well as 2,500 leaders from business and society will gather at the 46th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, from January 20 to 23 in Davos-Klosters, under the theme, Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Ecotourism can play a positive role in conservation but tourists can be disruptive, and the amenities built to serve them can destroy wildlife habitat and disturb land needed as a bulwark against climate change.
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American and Swiss researchers are proposing a new integrated “hydricity” concept – one that generates electricity with solar energy and also produces and stores hydrogen from superheated water for round-the-clock power generation whether the sun is shining or not.
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A fully renewable energy system for Russia and Central Asia by 2030 is achievable and economically viable, finds newly published research by Finnish scientists.
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Climate change-ready rice seeds of several varieties have reached millions of farmers in Asia and Africa under a forward-looking program known as Stress-Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia, or STRASA.
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