Claudia Goldin wins 2023 Economics Nobel Prize for research on workplace gender gap

by sdgadmin | Oct 11, 2023 | News and Evens

The Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin on Monday for her research that has advanced the understanding of the gender gap in the labour market. Ms. Goldin is just the third woman to win the prize out of 93 economics...

U.N. Chief’s Test: Shaming Without Naming the World’s Climate Delinquents

by sdgadmin | Sep 20, 2023 | News and Evens

Every continent, every region and every country is feeling the heat, but I’m not sure all leaders are feeling that heat,” he said in his opening remarks to presidents and prime ministers assembled for their annual gathering in the General Assembly. “The fossil fuel...

Progress towards the Paris Agreement goals and respond to the climate crisis, finds technical report on first global stocktake

by sdgadmin | Sep 19, 2023 | News and Evens

While Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement have taken widespread actions to address climate change and its impacts, ambition and implementation must be accelerated rapidly. Many creative and actionable solutions to overcome challenges are ready to be implemented, finds...

Urgent action by States needed to tackle climate change, says UN Committee in guidance on children’s rights and environment

by sdgadmin | Sep 1, 2023 | News and Evens

The UN Child Rights Committee today published authoritative guidance on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. The guidance specifies the legislative and administrative measures States should urgently implement to address the...

UN says climate litigation has doubled in the past 6 years. Here are 5 breakthrough cases

by sdgadmin | Aug 16, 2023 | News and Evens

Lawyers may seem unlikely allies in the fight against the climate emergency but, according to a new survey, they are playing an increasingly important role in holding corporations and governments accountable for failures to tackle the climate crisis. Research by the...

These 3 charts from Microsoft show why technology is making your job harder – and how it can make it better

by sdgadmin | Aug 6, 2023 | News and Evens

Do you feel as though your job is getting harder? If so, you’re not alone, as a study commissioned by Microsoft has shown. The tech giant surveyed 31,000 people in 31 countries for the 2023 Work Trend Index: Annual Report and analyzed trillions of activities carried...