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AI-powered social innovation to build more resilient cities
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While urbanization poses a range of challenges for city governments, services, and communities to overcome, the growth of urban populations and urban areas also reveals an opportune moment to accelerate social innovation and uplift urban economies.
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Trends for Construction Design in 2025
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The construction industry is growing, and with it comes changes in the design of buildings to suit the new lifestyle, environmental concerns, and technological developments. Three significant trends for 2025 include the increasing popularity of industrial-style construction, the conversion and improvement of existing buildings, and the emergence of smaller, eco-friendly residential units. Each trend has both advantages and disadvantages for architects, builders, and clients.
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How the world helped Mosul rise from the rubble of war
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Terrorist fighters invaded Iraq’s second city of Mosul in 2014, destroying centuries-old landmarks in a bid to erase its history and impose a bleak and repressive future on the nearly two million people who lived there. Now, with UN support, Mosul has risen from the ashes of war.
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How to Set Sustainability Strategy in 2025
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We’re not even through the first quarter of the year and already it’s been a rocky ride for sustainability. The new administration has signaled its desire to roll back many climate policies, revoking clean technology goals and pushing for more oil and gas drilling.
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The MENA region should take top priority in global climate action
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“Climate point 1” is one of the most important scientific concepts regarding global and regional climate change and serves as a basic indicator for the direction climate change will take in the near- to long-term future, analysing current trends and potential future scenarios in order to protect people in all regions of the world.
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Will multinational companies flock to Syria?
Will multinational companies flock to Syria? Maybe, if foreign aid arrives first and stimulates normal local ambiance of fairness but after more than 13 years of civil war and decades of dictatorship that saw Syria become a pariah state, the country needs all the financial support it can get. But will foreign firms set up shop in Syria?
Why South-South collaboration is the key
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With technology prices plummeting and sustainable capital becoming available, the time is ripe for countries in the Global South to seize their moment in the race to sustainability, with South-South investment and partnership emerging as the key catalysts that could fundamentally transform the economic landscape of developing nations.
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Climate Information Transparency in the MENA Region
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There is a lack of transparent and accurate information in the MENA region. Governments should implement transparency measures, reduce bureaucratic hurdles, and invest in capacity building and interagency coordination to change this.
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Climate finance and care services
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Care is an important but unrecognised sector for climate change adaptation. I use the term “care economy” to encompass the work of caring for people that is paid and unpaid, largely undertaken by women. This work takes place in a range of places. This includes private and public settings, such as households, community centers, hospitals, schools, and care homes.
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