Igarapé Institute co-founder and president Ilona Szabó has been named to the newly created High-Level Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General. She joins 11 other publicly acclaimed figures including former heads of state, sitting government authorities and eminent scholars who will be tasked
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Co-Founder and President, Igarapé Institute, has spent most of her life working to build coalitions for collective action and says it will take broad and diverse networks of people to tackle the biggest challenges in the world.
Once the epicenter of the global trade in gold, illegal mining is once again surging across the Amazon.
With the devastating effects of climate change already bearing down on the world’s urban areas, ambitious decarbonization and adaptation promises from municipal leaders could not come soon enough
The organization releases a new video to mark its anniversary Launched ten years ago, the Igarapé Institute is more prolific and impactful than ever. On its tenth anniversary the Institute is expanding its engagement with climate security and digital security alongside public security. The
Jutting out from the second-largest continent, the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s regions most vulnerable to climate change
A series of randomized control trials in six countries evaluate whether community policing improves security A vexing question facing all countries is how they can best reduce crime and improve public security? A common response is to deploy police, including sending officers to work
After seven straight years of record-breaking global temperatures, and nearly three decades since the first United Nations consort on environment and development, concern over the gathering climate emergency has finally gone mainstream
More than one-fourth of the world’s population lives in conditions of insecurity because of high levels of crime and violence, especially in the Global South
The COP26 in Glasgow may be the world’s last best chance to confront the most pressing global catastrophic risk of our time
The new stories will be available on the interactive platform EcoCrime Data; the organization will also participate in panels The Igarapé Institute releases today (November 8th) at COP26 (Glasgow) ten news stories on its EcoCrime Data platform, each of which tells a distinct tale about
Prospect and Cast from Clay, this year’s awards partners, are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2021 Think Tank Awards
Cities are the front line of climate change as perpetrators, victims, and problem-solvers
It is conceivable that 2021 will be remembered as the year we reached a climate action tipping point — and not a moment too soon
Yet now more than ever, humanity’s collective future hinges on effective cooperation
The world is facing interconnected and complex global challenges
The U.S. military responded less than 48 hours later with an unmanned airstrike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province
Data privacy exchanged for frictionless convenience is being compromised, stolen and leaked with disturbing regularity.
With tensions rising between global powers, digital attacks increasing in frequency and intensity, deepening climate threats and dangerously uneven Covid-19 recovery
After all, they’ve been buying, pilfering and seizing them from ANDSF forces for almost two decades.
The notion that warmer weather can make us more violent is not new
Robert Muggah explores the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and national lockdowns
At first sight, the global vaccination rollout is mesmerizing
Local leaders told authorities that four boatloads of men arrived last week and threw tear gas canisters at the Maikohipi village, nestled in the Palimiu region in Brazil’s largest and best-known Indigenous reserve, Yanomami.
Nuclear weapons are without doubt the most indiscriminate and inhumane weapons ever conceived
If we didn’t know already, the COVID-19 pandemic has driven home the fact that data is the most important strategic asset of the 21st century
The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder of how interconnected our fates are
Central Asia is the staging ground for a new digital Great Game
Louise Marie shares below some reflections on the importance of Cyber Portals to CCB and the lessons learned from the process of developing the national portal
The Council’s Robert Muggah offers TEDxSaoPaulo five priorities to disrupt the crime and corruption that threatens not just Latin America, but the world
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