Views and analyses related to the UN, in context of the site topics
In June 2025, over 200 civil society organizations called for reform of the international climate change process. They released the call in the margins of the Bonn meeting, an inter-sessional to prepare for the 2025 COP (that is, Conference of [read more]
The Conference of Parties (COP) of the climate change agreement is having its 29th meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan. Known more familiarly as COP29, the meeting is a complex maze of issues, past agreements, and possible future agreements involving money, monitoring [read more]
Book Review: Governing through Goals: Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation, edited by Norichika Kanie and Frank Biermann, MIT Press, 2017 (A 2019 article by one of the editors, Norichika Kanie, and some of this book’s authors, summarize the book’s premise – [read more]
The term “exponential technology” was made popular by Google’s director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil, in his 2005 best seller The Singularity is Near. Exponential referred to the speed and nature of technological change that is fast, usually a doubling in [read more]
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