人工知能(AI)はアフリカにとって変革の可能性を秘めているが、AIは責任を持って活用することが極めて重要である。AIがさまざまな分野にますます取り込まれていく中、その利活用が ...
現在の世界情勢に安心感を抱く人はいないはずだ。紛争、気候変動、不平等といった現代の最大の諸問題は、2024年に驚異的にエスカレートし、世界中でまさに沸点に達した。 こうした激化 ...
Jared Diamond famously stated that “the biggest problems facing the world today are not at all beyond our control, rather they are all of our own making, and entirely in our power to deal with” when ...
Caring for the Earth and for our environment seems to have been a notion dear to humankind since the dawn of time. Even to this day, many of those societies that are deemed “primitive” for having ...
Oceans cover more than two thirds of Earth’s surface. They are home to millions of species, provide a key source of protein to people on every continent, and play an enormous role in regulating our ...
The world’s food supplies are at risk because farmland is becoming rapidly concentrated in the hands of wealthy elites and corporations, finds a study by a small international non-profit organization, ...
Over four million Syrian refugees have fled Syria since 2011, with the majority seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. Five years into the crisis, and with no foreseeable end, it is of grave ...
Do you live in the most liveable city in the world? But what does that really mean? We love ranking cities and attaching fancy titles to them. Perhaps you live in a global city? According to the ...
Farmers markets are popping up in the unlikeliest of places these days. In the heart of Tokyo’s Aoyama/Omotesando high-end fashion district, the Farmers Market at the United Nations University has ...
The bean counters at the World Wildlife Fund found that it takes more than 200 litres of water just to produce one cup of latte coffee (see video below). Water wastage is only one aspect of the total ...
A famous anecdote describes a scheme the British Colonial Government implemented in India in an attempt to control the population of venomous cobras that were plaguing the citizens of Delhi that ...
Since the end of the cold war, the United Nations Security Council has articulated its responses to many crises of international peace and security through the use of sanctions. The Council currently ...