This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As COVID-19 vaccines continue to roll out around the world, they’ve offered us some hope in tackling the pandemic and getting back to normalcy — but unless they can reach everyone on the planet, that’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Alexander Müller is a sociologist with a long history in local and federal environmental policy in Europe. He is currently a study leader for The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Business leaders from different sectors and spanning multiple continents are joining forces to call for an end to the death penalty, urging governments to commute death sentences, impose moratoria on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine tackles a controversial question: Is solar geoengineering – an approach designed to cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Social impact is wickedly hard to measure. If we want to use measurement in social change, then we need metrics that are robust and meaningful. Business leaders understand the power…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A tidal wave of interest is building in farming the seas. It’s part of a global rush to exploit oceanic resources that’s been dubbed the “blue acceleration.” Optimistic projections say…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The title of Alnoor Ebrahim’s important Measuring Social Change understates the scope of his thesis. It is a work on managing social change—highly readable, engaging, and illustrated by rich in-depth case studies. The book…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite their comparatively limited resources — climate philanthropy represents less than 0.1 percent of total climate finance — foundations’ combined efforts over the past 30 years have had a significant…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This is a difficult time for philanthropy. Challenges like global climate change are demanding collective action on an unprecedented scale. Technology, meanwhile, is creating new social problems at the same…
Jill Kolling, vice president of global sustainability at Cargill, says that it’s important for the farmers and ranchers it works with to be able to withstand the impacts of climate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the challenge created by high-level, aggregated data when addressing chronic food security and other lasting challenges affecting Africa—namely the masking of community-level differences, which inhibits…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A recent World Health Organization survey illustrates the everyday experience of migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, which surveyed over 30,000 refugees and migrants living in 170 countries, was carried out…