Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - 2022 Goalkeepers Report: The Future of Progress

The 2022 Goalkeepers Report of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was published in September 2022.

 

Title: 

The Future of Progress

 

From the report:

" We are data people, and this is a data report. Sort of.  

 

In 2015, leaders from 193 countries agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals—the SDGs. These were big, bold objectives we wanted to achieve by 2030, everything from ending poverty to achieving gender equality. And each year, this report attempts to answer the question, “How is the world doing?” We want people to grasp what the numbers say about the trajectory of human progress.  

 

But this year, we think it’s just as important that people understand what the numbers cannot say about progress.  

 

Because there are two important things no data point in this report fully reflects: crisis and innovation."

 

Goalkeepers 2021 Report: Innovation & Inequity [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2021]

Title:

Goalkeepers 2021 Report: Innovation & Inequity

 

By:

Bill Gates & Melinda French Gates

 

Published:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2021

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/report/2021-report/?utm_source=GF-Paid&utm_medium=PTW&utm_campaign=RPT_GK21&utm_content=Report-V1

 

From the report:

A year ago, we sat down to write an unusual Goalkeepers Report. After years of steady progress on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was devastating families, health systems, and economies. We feared it was triggering an unprecedented reversal of progress across nearly every measure of health and prosperity that we track each year in this report. 

Veritasium Video (4 February 2021) - I asked Bill Gates What's The next Crisis

Video title:

I asked Bill Gates What's The next Crisis

Published:

Veritasium, 4 February 2021 (via YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grv1RJkdyqI&feature=youtu.be

Duration:

13:13

From the video description:

I got the chance to interview Bill Gates so I asked him: Will Covid-19 be the last pandemic? How does he deal with misinformation and conspiracy theories? And what is the next disaster? 

 

The Gates Foundation Annual Letter (2021) is here: https://ve42.co/BG21

Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) initiative spearheaded by the University of Illinois - New discovery will boost crop yields

Title:
New discovery will boost crop yields

Author:
Susan Robertson

Published:
Innovators, 10 August 2020
https://www.innovatorsmag.com/crops-given-tools-to-shine/

From the article:
At the heart of the latest breakthroughs made through the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) initiative, scientists at the University of Essex have overcome ‘two major photosynthetic bottlenecks’ that would enable plants to realise a 27% greater yield.