The World's Largest Lesson

This report from the United Nations Environment Programme presents the most comprehensive data about global food waste. It assesses progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 to halve food waste and reduce food loss across supply chains. Reducing food waste would improve food security, address climate change issues, save money, and reduce pressure on land, water, and waste management systems worldwide. The report found that in 2019, the world generated 931 million tons of food waste;…

This Rockefeller-Lancet Commission report argues that the continuing degradation of natural systems threatens to reverse a century of health gains. By almost any measure, human health is better now than at any time in history. Life expectancy has soared from 47 years in 1950–1955, to 69 years in 2005–2010, and death rates in children younger than 5 years of age have decreased substantially, from 214 per thousand live births in 1950–1955, to 59 in 2005–2010.…

This resource pack focuses on early childhood development, an umbrella term for the physical, cognitive, and emotional changes that occur in the first years of life, with specific emphasis on birth to age five. Child development is driven by a complex interplay between a child and the many social contexts he or she occupies, including the household, peer network, school, community, and broader society. Together, these contexts interact with the natural biological and psychological growth…