The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said there was a 40% chance of the watershed global warming mark being met during the time frame, and these odds are increasing with time. The 1.5°C mark was established as the desirable target for … Read more
The blockchain beyond cryptocurrency world is full of potential use cases that would supposedly change the game. I touched on it in my last post with a supply chain management example. But the use case proposals go much further than … Read more
Description: We are looking for an Operations Officer who will be responsible for providing support on operations, finances, and administration at Global Change Data Lab — the non-profit organization that produces Our World in Data. Key requirement: Pre-existing right to … Read more
As a full-time cartographer with previous experience as an ecologist, our guest blogger Dan Bell is a huge advocate of the outdoors. In his spare time, he enjoys fell/long distance running and is currently training to become a Mountain Leader … Read more
About the index score The Press Freedom Index is a ranking of 180 countries published yearly by Reporters Without Borders on the basis of countries’ press freedom results according to the organization’s own assessment. This ranking attempts to reflect the … Read more
(Bloomberg) — Coffee supplies in the U.S. are shrinking and wholesale prices are surging, with the hard-hit market bracing for further fallout from a global shortage of shipping containers that’s upended the food trade. Coffee stockpiles have sunk to a … Read more
Inserting malicious code in open-source libraries is about as easy as reading this text. © wernerwerke “Sunburst” was the most sophisticated hack the world has ever seen. One of the most urgent lessons so far learned from the attack: we … Read more
…Bond markets offer ridiculously low yields. Real yields of reserve currency sovereign bonds are negative and the lowest ever. Real yields of cash are even worse though not as negative as they were in the 1930-45 and 1915-20 great monetization … Read more
Mission and impact: The mission of this work is our motivation to do it: we are committed to making progress against the world’s largest problems; to do so we need research and data to be available and accessible; and we … Read more