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This report is the first of its kind on the Lake Chad region and a pioneer among climate-fragility risk assessments globally. It is the product of an intensive two-year period of research across all four countries. The assessment draws on long-term hydrological data from the Lake Chad basin, including ground measurements as well as brand new analysis of 20 years of …

This third report of the African Innovation Outlook (AIO-3) covers a period during which major developments have taken place in the African Union policy processes. In 2013, the African Union adopted the Agenda 2063 which is a 50-year vision of the aspirations of the idea of the “Africa We Want” in 2063. The vision is buttressed on an Africa that is committed to laying a strong foundation in…

This is thus the great puzzle: Are we witnessing a great reshuffling of the pieces of the international order? Will the defenders of the post-1945 international order be successful in preserving its main elements and piecing at least some of them back together? Or will the world continue to move closer to, a “perfect storm,” the cumulative effect of several crises happening simultaneously that…

Faced with a new global paradigm of achieving the Sustainable Development goals by 2030 and especially on the issue of soils, goal 15.3, which says: “By 2030, fight desertification, rehabilitate degraded lands and soils, including lands affected by desertification, drought and floods, and seek to achieve a world with neutral soil degradation. ” In this regard, it is clear that the international…

Impact investing, which seeks to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impacts alongside a financial return, faces challenges to better address the financing needs of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Impact tokens, and blockchain in general, offer solutions to mobilizing investments toward the SDGs. For that to happen, though, innovation must continue and…

This publication was produced as part of the digital interactive exhibition Droughts in the Anthropocene, prepared for the fortieth session of the UNESCO General Conference. Droughts in the Anthropocene features fifteen case studies from around the world showcasing the social, environmental and cultural impacts of droughts and water scarcity. It highlights solutions offered by collaboration…