Sustainable Solutions: Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019, Day Two

Grand Challenges in Sustainable Design and Construction

The world has experienced unprecedented urban growth in the last and current centuries. In 1800, only 3% of the world’s population lived in urban areas. It increased to 14 and 47% in 1900 and 2000, respectively. Since 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world population lives in the urban areas (Laski and Schellekens, 2007). In year 2003, United Nations estimated that by ...

Grand Challenges awards 102 global health grants.

Grand Challenges for Global Brain Sciences

Joshua T. Vogelstein, Katrin Amunts, Andreas Andreou, Dora Angelaki, Giorgio Ascoli, Cori Bargmann, Randal Burns, Corrado Cali, Frances Chance, Miyoung Chun, George Church, Hollis Cline, Todd Coleman, Stephanie de La Rochefoucauld, Winfried Denk, Ana Belen Elgoyhen, Ralph Etienne Cummings, Alan Evans, Kenneth Harris, Michael Hausser, Sean Hill, Samuel Inverso, Chad Jackson, Viren Jain, Rob Kass...

Global civil society? The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development

In the face of mounting environmental degradation and persistent poverty over the previous decade, Johannesburg’s World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) of August and September 2002 inherited a number of unmet accords from the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. Consequently, the United Nations Stakeholder Forum Implementation Conference (IC) was convened to integrate civil society stakeh...

Grand challenges in global health governance.

INTRODUCTION This review identifies an agenda for global health by highlighting the current 'grand challenges' related to governance. SOURCES Literature from the disciplines of health policy and medicine, conference presentations and documents, and materials from international agencies (such as the World Health Organization). AREAS OF AGREEMENT The present approach to global health governan...