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Welcome to the State of our world page
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On this page you will find links to trusted sources about the state of our world. (Our society in all its aspects)
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Do you want to know more?
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Knowledge
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| Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology |
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| The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology goal is to facilitate access to scholarship in Social Anthropology for experts and non-experts worldwide. |
| https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/ |
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| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
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| The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work. |
| https://plato.stanford.edu/ |
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| The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
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| The purpose of the IEP is to provide detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of academic philosophy. The Encyclopedia’s articles are written with the intention that most of the article can be understood by advanced undergraduates majoring in philosophy and by other scholars who are not working in the field covered by that article. |
| https://iep.utm.edu/ |
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| The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online |
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| It is a trusted source of quality information, providing access to over 2,800 articles that have been edited for level and consistency by a team of renowned subject experts. |
| https://www.rep.routledge.com/ |
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Politics
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| United Nations Climate Change (better known as 'COP') |
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| The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change. UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has universal membership1 (198 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of all three agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development. |
| https://unfccc.int/ |
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| The UNESCO Courier |
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| UNESCO’s magazine – bringing you local perspectives on global issues since 1948 |
| https://courier.unesco.org/en |
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| Project Syndicate |
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| The world's opinion page |
| https://www.project-syndicate.org/ |
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| Phenomenal World |
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| Phenomenal World is a publication focused on political economy. We aim to publish rigorous and innovative writing on economics, history, finance, policy, and politics. |
| https://www.phenomenalworld.org/ |
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| Pew Research Center |
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| Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions. |
| https://www.pewresearch.org/ |
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| The International Institute for Strategic Studies |
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| The International Institute for Strategic Studies is a world-leading authority on global security, political risk and military conflict. |
| https://www.iiss.org/ |
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| Chatham House |
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| Remaining a trusted source of information and analysis is central to our work. Our research aims to get to the heart of international questions. |
| https://www.chathamhouse.org/ |
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| Global Witness |
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| Our shared goal is creating a future where the planet and people thrive together. |
| https://globalwitness.org/en/ |
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| IPIS |
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| Independent research and capacity enhancement for durable peace, sustainable development and human rights |
| https://ipisresearch.be/ |
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| CERAC |
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| Belgian Climate Risk Assessment. |
| https://www.cerac.be/en/bcra |
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Our environment in data
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| Stockholm Resilience Centre - Planetary boundaries |
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| The planetary boundaries concept presents a set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come.The evolution of the planetary boundaries framework. Licenced under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Credit: Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. Based on Richardson et al. 2023, Steffen et al. 2015, and Rockström et al. |
| https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries/the-nine-planetary-boundaries.html |
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| European Environment Agency |
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| Can we live within the limits of the planet? We are using resources faster than the planet can replenish them, creating pollution, destroying nature, driving climate change and impacting people’s health and well-being. A transition to a sustainable future will require a fundamental shift in production and consumption systems. |
| https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/at-a-glance/sustainability |
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| Global Carbon Project |
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| The critical annual update revealing the latest trends in global carbon emissions |
| https://globalcarbonbudget.org/ |
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| Climate Watch |
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| Climate Watch offers open data, visualizations and analysis to help policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders gather insights on countries' climate progress. |
| https://www.climatewatchdata.org/ |
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| Net Zero Tracker |
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| How are nations doing on net zero targets compared with companies? How many regions and cities have published a plan to get to net zero? How many companies rule out the use of offsets or cover their Scope 3 emissions? |
| https://zerotracker.net/ |
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| Exiobase |
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| EXIOBASE is a global, detailed Multi-Regional Environmentally Extended Supply-Use Table (MR-SUT) and Input-Output Table (MR-IOT). It was developed by harmonizing and detailing supply-use tables for a large number of countries, estimating emissions and resource extractions by industry. Subsequently the country supply-use tables were linked via trade creating an MR-SUT and producing MR-IOTs from this. The MR-IOT that can be used for the analysis of the environmental impacts associated with the final consumption of product groups. |
| https://www.exiobase.eu/index.php |
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| Not the End of the World |
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| Hannah Ritchie |
| https://www.nottheendoftheworld.co.uk/climate-data |
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Our energy consumption in data
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| International Energy Agency (IEA) |
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| The International Energy Agency (IEA) works with governments and industry to shape a secure and sustainable energy future for all |
| https://www.iea.org/ |
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| Energy Insitute (EI) |
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| The Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy™ analyses data on world energy markets from the prior year. Previously produced by bp. |
| https://www.energyinst.org/ |
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| Ember |
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| Open data and intelligent policy analysis to unlock a clean, electrified energy future |
| https://ember-energy.org/ |
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| Production Gap |
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| The production gap is the difference between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and global production levels consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5ºC or 2ºC. |
| https://productiongap.org/ |
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Our business in data
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| The Global Economy |
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| TheGlobalEconomy.com is for people who are interested in the world economy. Our global economy guide, glossary, and directory intended for a broad audience of non-experts, have brief and simple articles explaining key concepts and relationships. |
| https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/ |
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| Worldbank - Open data |
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| Free and open access to global development data |
| https://data.worldbank.org/ |
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| International Monetary Fund |
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| The IMF is a global organization that works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 191 member countries. It does so by supporting economic policies that promote financial stability and monetary cooperation, which are essential to increase productivity, job creation, and economic well-being. The IMF is governed by and accountable to its member countries. |
| https://www.imf.org/en/Home |
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| Statista |
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| Insights and facts across 170 industries and 150+ countries |
| https://www.statista.com/ |
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| Trading economics |
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| World business data |
| https://tradingeconomics.com/ |
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| Economic Policy Uncertainty Index |
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| We develop indices of economic policy uncertainty for countries around the world. |
| https://www.policyuncertainty.com/ |
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| Visual capitalist |
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| Business visualisations |
| https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ |
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Our society in data
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| The Wicked 7 Project |
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| The Wicked 7 Project seeks to understand the connections between the world’s most urgent problems and why we can’t seem to solve them. |
| https://www.wicked7.org/ |
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| Our world in data |
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| What do we need to know to make the world a better place? To make progress against the pressing problems the world faces, we need to be informed by the best research and data. Our World in Data makes this knowledge accessible and understandable, to empower those working to build a better world. |
| https://ourworldindata.org/ |
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| World Inequality Database |
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| The World Inequality Database (WID) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries. |
| https://wid.world/ |
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| GNI - data |
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| GNI - Gross National Income (formerly GNP - Gross National Product) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. |
| https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators/Series/NY.GNP.MKTP.KD.ZG |
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| INED |
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| The French Institute for Demographic Studies or INED, is a public research institute specialized in population studies that works in partnership with the academic and research communities at national and international levels. |
| https://www.ined.fr/en/ |
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EU in data
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| European Environment Agency |
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| we provide the knowledge and the data needed to achieve sustainability in Europe. |
| https://www.eea.europa.eu/en |
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| Eurostat |
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| Eurostat produces European statistics in partnership with National Statistical Institutes and other national authorities in the EU Member States. This partnership is known as the European Statistical System (ESS). It also includes the statistical authorities of the European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland. |
| https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat |
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| StatBel |
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| Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, collects, produces and disseminates reliable and relevant figures on the Belgian economy, society and territory. The collection is based on administrative data sources and surveys, the production is carried out in a scientific manner and with respect to quality, and statistics are disseminated on time and in a client-friendly manner. |
| https://statbel.fgov.be/en |
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| Statistiek Vlaanderen |
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| Deze openbare statistieken over Vlaanderen lopen inhoudelijk breed uiteen: van de mensen die er wonen en werken over economie en omgeving tot de plaats van Vlaanderen in de wereld. |
| https://www.vlaanderen.be/statistiek-vlaanderen |
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| Centraal bureau voor de Statistiek |
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| Dossier Broeikasgassen |
| https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/dossier/dossier-broeikasgassen |
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