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This list of global issues presents problems or phenomena affecting people around the world, including but not limited to widespread social issues, economic issues, and environmental issues. Organizations that maintain or have published an official list of global issues include the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.
The United States is the world leader in producing the most e-waste, followed closely by China; both countries domestically recycle and export e-waste. [95] Only recently has the United States begun to make an effort to start regulating where e-waste goes and how it is disposed of.
Logging in the United States is a hotly debated topic as groups who either support or oppose logging argue over its benefits and negative effects. The biggest issue thought to be facing deforestation in the United States was illegal logging. The Forest Service and EPA work together to make sure that the permits for logging companies in the ...
Still, the weekend’s events in Syria are a reminder of the speed of global political change at a time of shifting alliances, growing great power challenges to the United States, and the way that ...
At the annual meeting of world leaders last year, the U.N. chief sounded a global alarm about the survival of humanity and the planet. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ assessment, delivered ...
Social inequality has become a persistent and serious problem in the United States. According to a 2020 study by Pew Research , the gap between upper-income and middle- to lower-income Americans ...
The 15 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year. [2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.
A vast majority of the hearing focused on those two issues — border security and Israel — and those issues will likely figure prominently on the campaign trail for 2024.