Europe must answer the Climate Call
In early 2015, the European Union became the first major economy to set a post-2020 target for limiting greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. By committing to...
Taming the Wild West of Digital Health Innovation
Digital technology is revolutionizing our daily lives. Mobile devices monitor our movements, marketing algorithms guide our consumption, and social media shape our worldviews and...
Lessons from India in Digital Disruption
Digital technology can rapidly transform how countries provide services such as education and health to their citizens. The public services of the future should...
Women and Girls are key to Universal Health Coverage
Health care is a human right, yet roughly half of the world’s population of 3.5 billion people forgoes essential health services due to financial...
Making ‘Generation Educated’ a Reality
Continuous declines in international education aid are depriving half of all young people in the developing world — some 800 million children — of...
China should lead on air pollution
The United Nations expects 68% of the world’s population to live in urban areas by 2050. As governments scramble to manage this flood of urban migration,...
The Myth of Climate Wars?
In the years leading up to Syria’s civil war, the country endured three consecutive record-breaking droughts. By forcing internal displacement, the droughts arguably contributed...
Europe Should Lead on Climate Action
Since the massive mobilization effort that preceded the 2009 Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen, the world has begun translating words and intentions...
Towards a disastrous war
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power once called genocidal wars “a problem from hell.” As US President Donald Trump’s administration ratchets...
Malaria on the march again
Mosquitoes are often described as the most dangerous animals on earth, because the diseases they transmit – including malaria, dengue, and Zika — cause...
