Welcome! It is time to Shake the World. How? By joining the global Shake the World movement to support the Millennium Development Goals. These are the eight goals set by the UN in september 2000 to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015. Five years to go, eight goals to achieve, time to shake the world!
The 100 richest people in the world earned enough last year to end extreme poverty suffered by the poorest on the planet four times over, Oxfam has said. Ahead of next week's World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the charity urged world leaders to tackle inequality.
Bill Gates meets 10 Intel ISEF studentsat Techonomy for the 100 People project The 100 People Foundation is a global education toolbox. By framing the world population as a community of 100 people, we help students to better understand the complex issues facing our planet and the resources we share.
The latest Unicef state of the world's children report is out, with a special focus on adolescents. So, how do the world's teenagers compare?* Get the data* Search the MDG data. Read more about the report Children are unambiguously the focus of the millennium development goals (MDGs). But what happens when they grow up?
Welcome to the Global Engage website, which supports members of the IB community, and particularly teachers, in engaging with our global world.
Here you will find information, resources, ideas and opinions, links, and suggestions for action concerned with global issues - and reports of actions taken by the IB community.
Since its release in 2005, WFP's video game to teach children about the logistical challenges of delivering food aid in a major humanitarian crisis has been downloaded over 6 million times, and has an estimated network of 10 million players worldwide!
Welcome to Breathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. Please remember that this is just a simulation. Although the CO2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such a massive scale can never be 100% accurate.