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U8 logo. The U8 Global Student Partnership for Development was a student-led global university network. Founded in 2005 by students in the wake of the Make Poverty History campaign, it provided an impartial platform for students to learn, share ideas and attempt to make a positive impact on the least developed parts of the world.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral environmental fund that provides grants and blended finance for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), mercury, sustainable forest management, food security, and sustainable cities in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
Global studies (GS) or global affairs (GA) is the interdisciplinary study of global macro-processes. Predominant subjects are political science in the form of global politics , as well as economics , law , the sociology of law , ecology , environmental studies , geography , sociology , culture , anthropology and ethnography .
Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017, with melting grounded ice (ice sheets and glaciers) raising the global sea level by 34.6 ±3.1 mm. [100] The rate of ice loss has risen by 57% since the 1990s−from 0.8 to 1.2 trillion tonnes per year. [100] Melting of glacial mass is approximately linearly related to temperature rise.
Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. This is made possible by the reduction of barriers to international trade, the liberalization of capital movements, the development of transportation, and the advancement of information and communication technologies. [1]
In March 2022, before formal publication of the 'Global Carbon Budget 2021' preprint, [228] scientists reported, based on Carbon Monitor [229] data, that after COVID-19-pandemic-caused record-level declines in 2020, global CO 2 emissions rebounded sharply by 4.8% in 2021, indicating that at the current trajectory, the 1.5 °C carbon budget ...