Every year thousands of delegates gather at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York to discuss the experiences of women globally. For the first time I was privileged to run a scheduled side event for The Impact Initiative. Joined by colleagues from the UN Economic Commission for...
16 April 2019
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12 April 2019
Globally, exposure to air pollution is now the single largest environmental risk to public health, with outdoor and indoor air pollution estimated to be responsible for at least 7 million deaths per year. Despite being a global problem – with the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
9 April 2019
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched with great fanfare in September 2015. This was an ambitious agenda for the whole world, aiming to transform development towards sustainability, while leaving no-one behind. I was excited by the prospects. A blog I wrote back then for the...
8 April 2019
8 April 2019
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29 March 2019
Complex global challenges can only be addressed through meaningful international collaboration and ‘integrated science’ which brings together scientists from different disciplines to co-construct knowledge. Yet the institutions which underpin these international collaborations are by and...
29 March 2019
Mainland China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its implications for progress against the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) often dominate discussions about development in the Asia-Pacific region. Indeed it was the focus of a high-level event co-hosted by IDS and the UK...
29 March 2019
