Plus, research on sustainable development goals.
Extreme weather is costing American businesses
The increasing impacts of climate change and extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires present a real threat to U.S. businesses. Andre Perry and Manann Donoghoe explore where and how businesses are at economic risk in America, and how federal climate policies could help insulate local and national economies from such natural disaster impacts. |
A closer look at the data |
| Research on sustainable development goals Collective intelligence for scaling solutions. The emerging science of collective intelligence (CI) could be used to identify collective approaches to sustainable development, Jacob Taylor explains, by improving multi-stakeholder collaboration, managing interdependencies, and scaling solutions. Africa’s progress towards sustainable development. “Strengthened implementation systems lie at the heart of better progress for the SDGs, bridging government, science, civil society, and the private sector,” write Homi Kharas and John McArthur in the latest Foresight Africa viewpoint. |
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