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What Is Alternative Data and How Can It Help Efforts to Leave No One Behind?

Official statistics and measures of poverty do not fully capture the causes of marginalization and how they intersect and interact. The 2030 Agenda is catalyzing a shift in how the world thinks about data and the use of "non-official data sources" to better reflect the needs of the most marginalized.

Insight May 13, 2022

Disparities in COVID Impacts Underline the Importance of Racialized Data to Understand and Address Systemic Racism

Racialized data on risk exposure and health impacts can help understand inequities in COVID-19 impact and support preventive policy decisions, but collection to date is haphazard.

Insight May 13, 2022

Not Just Who, But Where: The need for geospatial data to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

To advance the 2030 Agenda, the availability of geospatial data allows us to know where marginalized people are located and make the evidence-based decisions required to make sure they are no longer left behind.

Insight May 13, 2022

Leveraging the Linkages: How human rights data can advance SDG monitoring

To create opportunities for synergies between the "leave no one behind" principle and the "realize human rights for all" principle in implementation and improved monitoring, there is a need to properly leverage data and legal mechanisms.

Insight May 13, 2022

Who Is Being Left Behind in Canada?

A prerequisite for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) action is clearly identifying those at risk of being left behind so their progress in achieving the SDGs can be monitored.

Insight May 13, 2022

Tired of Tossing Brown Bananas? Scientists Just Got One Step Closer to Slowing Down Their Ripening Process

According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, farmers cultivated about 117 million tons of bananas in 2019—but about 50 million tons ended up as waste.

IISD in the news May 13, 2022

Climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead, warns IEA chief

The world's leading energy economist has warned against investing in large new oil and gas developments, which would have little impact on the current energy crisis and soaring fuel prices but spell devastation to the planet.

IISD in the news May 12, 2022

Benjamin Simmons

Person May 12, 2022

Research with a peel: FSU study on banana browning could help tackle food waste

New research from Florida State University won't only help you nail the timing for your banana bread — it could also help reduce millions of tons of food waste from the widely cultivated fruit.

IISD in the news May 11, 2022

The Roots of Forest Loss and Forest Governance

If lessons from past failures on deforestation are learned, forest protection could play a major role in reversing both climate change and biodiversity loss.

Deep Dive May 9, 2022

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