This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We’ve spent much of the last eight years trying to answer a simple question: what are the world’s biggest and most urgent problems? We wanted to have a positive impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Communities around the world are facing devastating consequences from climate change, including food insecurity, loss of homes and livelihoods, violence, and mental health challenges. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Molecules of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases are pouring into the atmosphere and heating up the planet, and time is of the essence to turn off the tap.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The UK has now secured 400 million doses of various COVID-19 vaccines, six times its total population. It’s already vaccinated almost 9 million people. But meanwhile just one of the 29 poorest countries in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The World Bank estimates that the pandemic has pushed as many as 150 million people back into poverty. And, women and girls are more likely to be poor. Yet, we’ve…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A critical element for truly eradicating extreme poverty (meaning bringing it below 3 percent of the population in each country—the tolerance level of our measurement systems) is understanding where poor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Within a year of the first reported case of COVID-19, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became the first fully-tested immunization to be approved for emergency use against the deadly virus. The lightning-speed development and approval…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It has almost become a donor mantra: invest in women and girls. But the vast majority of international aid is allocated without a feminist analysis, and that’s a problem. Feminist…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Notwithstanding what a bad year 2020 was, when people said they “couldn’t wait for 2021,” I was skeptical. Why did they think that circumstances would change on December 31, 2020,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. South Africa’s health department confirmed on Friday that the country is paying $5.25 per dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine – 2.5x more than what European Union members are set to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the last few years illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing has become more recognized as a national security concern. Fishing, a $401 billion global industry, provides 20% of the protein intake for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A study by researchers at the University of Oxford finds that Paris climate agreement goals will be nearly impossible to reach without dramatic reductions in food-related emissions. The aim of the Paris Agreement is…