The 2018 SDG Index and Dashboards report presents a revised and updated assessment of countries’ distance to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It includes detailed SDG Dashboards to help identify implementation priorities for the SDGs. The report also provides a ranking of countries by the aggregate SDG Index of overall performance. This year’s report […]
New research by Hebrew University of Jerusalem details the complex mathematical calculations that animals perform to locate their next meal. Turns out that even the simple earthworm constantly computes new scent data to see if they are on right track to food. Can humans learn from these tubular hermaphrodites? Animals often rely on their sense of smell […]
Prof. Yehuda Kahane has been calling to action the insurance industry for the past 5 years. The insurance industry is catching up… Insurance development community meets to design shared roadmap for New York Climate Summit 2019 Berlin, 12 July 2018 – From 9 to 11 July, 2018 the Global Insurance Forum took place in Berlin. Every year, […]
From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East to Southern California, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week. Large areas of heat pressure or heat domes scattered around the hemisphere led to the sweltering temperatures. The Canadian […]
The renewable energy industry created more than 500,000 new jobs globally in 2017, a 5.3 per cent increase from 2016, according to the latest figures released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) based in Abu Dhabi. According to the fifth edition of Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review, launched at IRENA’s 15th Council in Abu […]
Barry Camson To read Barry Camson’s full blog – click here I have been expressing the idea in previous posts that in an ecosystem, knowledge and skills are continually exchanged by members of the ecosystem in the process of ongoing value co-creation. In this article, I will apply this to designing in ecosystems. Lately, I […]
The worst-case climate scenario for coastal cities is known as a “pulse.” In that situation, abnormally warm water could cause the glaciers that hold back ice sheets on top of Antarctica and Greenland to collapse. That would cause massive quantities of ice to pour into the world’s oceans, which could lead to extremely rapid sea-level rise around […]
Madison Dapvech of IFL Reports on the slowing down of the Atlantic’s current: The ocean current responsible for weather patterns in North America and Europe is slowing down, likely due to climate change, according to two studies published this week. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC for short) is a system of ocean currents in the North Atlantic […]
At YKCenter we are committed not only to accelerating the new economy and the SDGs but also to creating and facilitating the tools with which this work needs to be done. Part of this work must be done in complete synchronization and collaboration – for that one must build the proper environments to foster our […]