Jan 17, 2025 · Technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are expanding the frontiers of humanitarian action, offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance reach, cost-efficiency and scalability. The IRC has embraced these tools across sectors, from using AI to improve access to education for displaced children to forecasting climate disasters to provide ...

Jan 26, 2021 · Lack of standardised climate change metrics is holding back the wider adoption of including climate action in executive compensation. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are increasingly becoming incorporated across all aspects of organizations, including business strategies, operations and product/service offerings.

Jan 20, 2025 · The week’s sessions come as US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to pull the country out of the Paris Agreement. In many respects, the attitude has been one of ‘business as usual’ with participants describing a situation where climate activity is so entrenched that policy and action towards net zero and the shift to ...

Prior to Oxfam India, Mr. Behar was the Executive Director of National Foundation for India and served as the Convener of National Social Watch Coalition and the Co-Chair of Global Call to Action Against Poverty, a network of over 11,000 civil society organisations.

Jan 20, 2025 · In response to the launch of the European Commission´s Green Deal in December 2019 and the call for public private action emerging from the Forum´s meeting with Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans at the 2020 Annual Meeting, the World Economic Forum is establishing a CEO Action Group to drive action on delivering the European Green Deal. The CEO Action Group comprises select CEO:s ...

Aug 15, 2023 · Climate activists are increasingly using legal action to enforce climate action, a new UN report shows, with case numbers more than doubling since 2017. Climate Action UN says climate litigation has doubled in the past 6 years.

Nov 11, 2024 · Many countries are due to submit their climate action plans – Nationally Determined Contributions – in 2025. The collective ability to limit global warming to 1.5°C depends on three key factors: ambition, finance and accelerated action. In cutting emissions and building climate resilience, a just transition must be ensured.

Jan 20, 2025 · Foulis noted that the expected “flurry of executive orders” will likely “test the capacity of American institutions.” Jacobs added that on the scale of expected executive action, the incoming “Trump presidency could be a factor of 200 times more unpredictable, more volatile than the first term.”

Executive Director, Food Action Alliance Graduate (Hons), Davidson College; MSc in Development Studies, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics. Formerly: philanthropy consultant, Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors; legislative correspondent for US Representative Sue Myrick.

Nov 27, 2024 · Despite these challenges, INC-5 underscored the urgency of collective action with a call for ambition of 100+ countries and laid the groundwork for continued negotiations, with the treaty’s finalization now targeted for INC-5.2 anticipated in the first half of 2025.