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July 19, 2023
It’s Halftime for the Global Goals ― It’s time to Imagine Winning
Since the United Nations (UN) was founded, over 75 years ago, our world has undergone tremendous progress. Globalisation completely reshaped our economy, enabling unprecedented interconnectedness of markets, exponential growth in…
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June 22, 2023
World Leaders urged to ’Listen to Mia’
Today, world leaders are gathering in Paris for the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact hosted by President Macron, which could lay the foundations for a new global financial…
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June 02, 2023
The World Bank’s Historic Opportunity to Champion People and Planet
Today marks a potentially pivotal moment for the world. Other than being National Fish & Chip Day in the UK, it also happens to be the day that Ajay Banga…
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May 02, 2023
The People’s Planet
We all know that being outside, surrounding ourselves with nature, and taking in fresh air are all good things for our minds and bodies. Access to green, open spaces is…
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April 13, 2023
25,000 student ideas to transform education
“It’s important to study the past, I know, but now we are living in the present and I want to know how to live in this world.” These are the…
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March 22, 2023
YOUTH MOBILISING FOR WATER: TOGETHER, LETS #FILLUPTHEGLASS
Unless we drastically change the way we manage freshwater, global demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030. For the first time since 1977, water will be at the top…
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March 08, 2023
Women’s Power Means World Progress: International Women’s Day 2023
Gender equality is not about women and girls. Well, it is. And it isn’t. Under each of the Global Goals, there are specific indicators that measure progress toward achieving that…
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February 24, 2023
WE CAN’T ACHIEVE THE GLOBAL GOALS WITHOUT PEACE FOR UKRAINE
On 24th February 2022, after years of unrest, Russia launched a full-scale attack on my country, Ukraine, and one year on, there seems to be no end to the violence,…
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February 14, 2023
What are the Global Goals and why are they more important than ever in 2023?
2023 is the halfway point in the world’s journey towards the Global Goals. It is the midpoint between the Goals being agreed by all 193 UN member states in 2015,…
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February 11, 2023
From Ants To Ecosystems: One Woman’s Life In Science
The first “real” science experiment I remember designing and implementing was in 7th grade. I found a trail of leafcutter ants — each diligently carrying scraps of freshly cut vegetation…
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February 01, 2023
Education Is The Most Basic Right Of A Human Being; Without IT We Cannot Have A Peaceful Life
Last week, people all over the world celebrated World Education Day, but unfortunately, I must write that Afghanistan is the only country in the world where women and girls are…
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December 31, 2022
A YEAR IN REVIEW: INNOVATION & COLLABORATION FOR THE GLOBAL GOALS IN 2022
2022 seems to have gone by in the blink of an eye, and there’s no doubt that the past 12 months presented many new challenges. As the year comes to…
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November 18, 2022
Transforming Education For The Youth By The Youth
November 20 is always a special date on my calendar. It is World Children’s Day! An annual day of action for children, by children. But, this day is not an…
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November 09, 2022
COP27 – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
This week marks the beginning of COP27, the annual UN Climate Change Conference. Over the next two weeks, thousands of delegates – among them heads of state, business leaders, and…
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November 08, 2022
Mayors of 10 leading cities sign open letter calling for greater support as COP27 begins
The Mayors of 10 leading cities, including London, Tokyo and Accra, have signed an open letter in the Financial Times today, calling for greater investment in cities to get the…
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October 31, 2022
World Mayors gather in Buenos Aires to announce creation of 50 million good green jobs by 2030
City leaders from around the world came together this month in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the C40 Cities World Mayors Summit, the triennial gathering of the C40 network of Mayors…
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October 26, 2022
HOW ARE THE PROTESTS IN IRAN LINKED TO THE GOALS
UPDATED: 13th December 2022. On 16th September, Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, died in police custody after she was arrested by the morality police. She was accused…
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October 17, 2022
The Global Goals at UNGA – What Happened
Every year, world leaders attend the UN General Assembly in New York to focus on the biggest challenges the world faces. This year we wanted to remind world leaders that…
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September 23, 2022
Cities around the world call for greater support to achieve the Global Goals
Leaders gather to recommit themselves to the Global Goals at the SDG Moment It’s the 7th birthday of the Global Goals! In the context of conflict, climate change and the…
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September 16, 2022
Get involved in Global Goals week
Next week the UN General Assembly begins and with it, Global Goals week. This year’s UNGA is taking place in unprecedented times – countries still reeling from the effect of…
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September 14, 2022
6 Ways The Floods Have Impacted Pakistan And Progress For The Goals
Recently, floods in Pakistan have had a devastating impact across the country, affecting 33 million people and killing over 1,000 people. Despite contributing less than 1% of global emissions, Pakistan…
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August 16, 2022
Transforming Education: Giving Children a Voice
We’re thrilled to announce that World’s Largest Lesson – an initiative led by Project Everyone and UNICEF – today launches a global gamified survey inviting children and young people to…
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June 30, 2022
Mayors of Four Major Cities Commit to Getting the World’s To Do List, Done
In September 2021, we redefined the Goals as the World’s To-Do List. Now, almost half-way through to 2030, we are shining a spotlight on the role cities have and are…
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June 09, 2022
Three Ways You Can Be An Ocean Warrior
Yesterday was World Oceans Day – for some, this might simply be another awareness day, but did you know that every single person on this planet depends on the ocean…
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March 09, 2022
Raise awareness for Gender Equality and show #fivecomesfirst
On the 8th March, we marked International Women’s Day (IWD) with a #fivecomesfirst campaign, encouraging people to put Goal 5: Gender Equality at the forefront. In every country, women and…
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March 03, 2022
When Women Lead: Five inspiring Goal 5 Champions
To celebrate International Women’s Day in 2022, we want you to be inspired by women leaders from around the world. In 2021, we partnered with Vital Voices on the Google.org…
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March 02, 2022
FIVE WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT UKRAINE
We’ve read about wars in our history books and have seen far too many of them through our TV screens and phones. Unfortunately, wars are not yet a thing of…
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February 20, 2022
CAN WE SHOP OUR WAY TO SOCIAL JUSTICE?
WHY FASHION MATTERS When you open your wardrobe to get dressed in the morning, social justice probably isn’t the first thing that springs to mind; but as one of…
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February 10, 2022
WE NEED MORE STEM HEROINES
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In many countries, the days of boys doing science experiments in one classroom while girls learn to cook and…
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February 06, 2022
FOUR ORGANISATIONS LEADING THE FIGHT TO END FGM/C
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a form of violence against women and girls. It includes all procedures that involve the partial or total removal of the external genitalia or other…
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January 24, 2022
WHY 2022 IS THE YEAR WE NEED TO REIMAGINE EDUCATION
It’s almost impossible to find a young person today who has not had their education impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. UNESCO estimates that 1.5 billion students and youth have been affected by…
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January 17, 2021
JOIN GLOBAL GOALS WEEK AT EXPO 2020
We’ve heard that the years 2020 and 2021 were ‘unprecedented years’ far too often. But the start of 2022 was certainly an unprecedented one (in a good way) for the…
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December 23, 2021
SIX GREAT REASONS WHY 2021 WASN’T ALL BAD
2021 could be considered as 2020 on repeat – there were some huge challenges and setbacks – but there was also advancement made towards achieving the Global Goals. From the…
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December 10, 2021
THE GLOBAL GOALS: WE NEED TO PUT A SPOTLIGHT ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Today is Human Rights Day, an annual observation of the day the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. Now over 70 years old, the UDHR…
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December 08, 2021
COP26: WHERE WE NEED TO GO FROM HERE
It was an intense week, and while still in Glasgow, it was very difficult to assess what was actually working or not. As ever, the brilliant Christiana Figueres, the former…
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December 01, 2021
EXTREME E PARTNERS WITH PROJECT EVERYONE TO RAISE AWARENESS OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY GOALS
1st December 2021, London:Sport for purpose championship Extreme E has teamed up with Project Everyone, a not-for-profit creative communications agency, to raise awareness of The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),…
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November 09, 2021
HOW THIS PARCEL COMPANY DECARBONIZED ITSELF
Humans’ detrimental effects on the environment have been demonstrated time and again, and this has been particularly visible over the past few months. Beyond the environmental impact itself, one aspect…
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November 08, 2021
INTRODUCING THE GOOGLE IMPACT CHALLENGE WINNERS
7800 Applications, 34 Organisations Selected, $25 Million in Funding: The Google.org Impact Challenge for Women and Girls. We are excited to join Google.org in announcing the 34 funding recipients of…
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November 03, 2021
GOOGLE ARTS AND CULTURE AND PROJECT EVERYONE CREATE VIRTUAL GLOBAL GOALS EXPERIENCE TO BRING VOICES OF THE WORLD TO LANDMARK CLIMATE SUMMIT
‘Voices for Change – A Global Goals World’ brings to life voices from across the world in support of climate action Thousands of voices were gathered from 60 countries in…
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October 29, 2021
DECADE OF IMPACT – DRIVING ACTION TO ACHIEVE THE GLOBAL GOALS
We’ve heard time and time again that the role of youth is critical when it comes to building a greener, fairer and more just world; and while that statement is…
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October 14, 2021
INTRODUCING GENERATION EARTHSHOT!
On Wednesday 13th October The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Kew Gardens to take part in a Generation Earthshot event with children from The Heathland School to generate big,…
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October 14, 2021
YOUTH POWER HACKS – IT’S A WRAP!
Almost a year ago, the Youth Power Panel teamed up with Restless Development, Project Everyone and Unilever to call upon young people to innovate and collaborate for the Global Goals….
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September 30, 2021
GOALKEEPERS GLOBAL GOALS AWARDS 2021: FAIROOZ FAIZAH BEETHER CHANGEMAKER AWARD WINNER
Led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Project Everyone, the Goalkeepers Awards programme identifies and highlights the stories of young activists, campaigners and innovators across the…
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September 28, 2021
ARTS HELP BRINGS WORLD’S TO-DO LIST ALIVE WITH GLOBAL OUTDOOR CAMPAIGN
Arts Help Network and its out-of-home media publisher partners have joined forces with Project Everyone to create awareness for the Global Goals and its new “World’s To-Do List” campaign. …
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September 27, 2021
PROGRESS IS POSSIBLE: WATCH OUR LATEST FILMS
Six years after 193 Member States agreed to achieve the Global Goals, world leaders gathered virtually and in person in New York at the UN General Assembly to talk about…
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September 26, 2021
GOALKEEPERS GLOBAL GOALS AWARDS 2021: JENIFER COLPAS PROGRESS AWARD WINNER
Led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Project Everyone, the Goalkeepers Awards programme identifies and highlights the stories of young activists, campaigners and innovators across the…
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September 22, 2021
GOALKEEPERS GLOBAL GOALS AWARDS 2021: SATTA SHERIFF CAMPAIGN AWARD WINNER
Led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Project Everyone, the Goalkeepers Awards programme identifies and highlights the stories of young activists, campaigners and innovators across the…
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September 20, 2021
THE WORLD’S TO-DO LIST
Major companies unite to launch ‘World’s To-Do List’ campaign in support of UN Global Goals Leading companies including Unilever, Google, Reckitt, Mars, Diageo and DPDgroup launch World’s To-Do List campaign…
