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170 Actions to Reduce Inequalities

Posted Jun 24, 2025| by United Nations - Perception Change Project

This booklet, part of the ‘170 Series’ launched by the UN’s Perception Change Project, gives 10 suggestions for each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The richest 10 percent have up to 40 percent of global income whereas the poorest 10 percent earn only... Read More

Global Inequality and Digital Vulnerability: Unpacking Online Scams and Human Trafficking

Posted on Jun 27, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Online scam operations and forms of digitally enabled human trafficking have surged dramatically. Despite many bilateral and multilateral efforts to combat such crimes, the root causes, driven by a confluence of global economic hardship, digital dependency, and human psychological vulnerability, are still not adequately addressed... Read More

Does Collective Security in the Middle East Still Have a Chance?

Posted on Jul 01, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

With greater power imbalances in the Middle East, the region’s key middle and mediating powers are losing their fight for stability, suggests Amr Hamzawy of the Carnegie Middle East Program. The power imbalance engendered by Israel’s supremacy and the preference for military force shown by... Read More

War and Law in a Digital World

Posted on Jul 02, 2025 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

As technological innovation continues to change the realities of war, the lack of agreement about how pre-digital rules apply to the digitalized battlespace risks turning legal arguments in an extension of conflicts, notes Aurel Sari in this article for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace... Read More

AI and Clean Energy: How Governments Can Unlock the Power of the “Twin Transitions”

Posted on Jul 01, 2025 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

AI and energy systems are both undergoing profound transformations. On the energy side, the world is moving from a centralised, fossil-fuel-based system to one that is decentralised, digitalised and powered by clean energy. On the AI side, it is shifting from an era of narrow... Read More

The US-Japan Alliance – Its Past, Present and Unclear Future

Posted on Jul 02, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Engelsberg Ideas

As President Trump’s aggressive trade agenda collides with Japan’s strategic anxieties, the future of East Asia’s most vital relationship hangs in the balance. This transformation is neither pre-ordained, nor simply the result of rational, overlapping interests, suggests John Nilsson-Wright in Engelsberg Ideas. Rather, it is... Read More

Transforming the Built Environment: A Systems Thinking Approach for Sustainable Urban Futures

Posted on Jun 27, 2025 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by The Club of Rome and the Hot or Cool Institute

This joint report by The Club of Rome and the Hot or Cool Institute explores how cities can evolve into low-carbon, resilient and equitable spaces through holistic approaches that recognise the deep interconnections between environmental, social and economic systems. Aimée Aguilar Jaber, Tatiana Samsonova et... Read More