by Ella Feathers | Oct 31, 2024 | Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index, Urbanization
Photo by Marcin Jozwiak on Unsplash.com The Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) launched our 2024 Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) in September. For details on our updated key findings, read our latest blog. With our recent updates, the UESI now includes...
by Elwin Lim | Dec 30, 2020 | Featured
Cities have emerged as important actors on the global sustainability stage. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal-11 (SDG-11) sets the goal for cities to be sustainable and inclusive by 2030. As cities are centers of population growth and economic development...
by Amy Weinfurter | Feb 25, 2020 | Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index
On February 9, 2020, Data-Driven Lab, in collaboration with the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness, launched an expanded version of the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) at the 10th World Urban Forum (WUF) in Abu Dhabi. The UESI maps cities’...
by Amy Weinfurter | Jan 16, 2020 | Climate
As 2020 rolled in, Twitter users leveraged a trend of capturing #2019InFiveWords to document the urgency of climate action. The UN noted that “#ClimateChange is happening NOW,” citing the forest and bush fires that blazed around the world as one example of how...
by Angel Hsu | Jan 15, 2020 | Climate, Featured
Next week, Jan. 21-24, world leaders will meet in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, which is themed “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World.” This marks the first time that the annual convening has chosen to focus on...