WE Empower winners recognized for innovations in flood mapping technology

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WE Empower winners recognized for innovations in flood mapping technology

Deadly floods have been submerging towns and cities across the globe, washing away people’s livelihoods and raising questions about why there are still so many people dying from catastrophic floods in 2021.

The Generation Equality Forum: Record breaking investments to advance women’s rights

The Generation Equality Forum held in Paris June 30 - July 2, 2021 was livestreamed to over 50,000 participants around the world. U.N. Women, political leaders, feminist movement leaders, corporate executives and activists gathered to address gender inequality, including the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on women and girls, and to commit to action that will accelerate global progress over the next five years, by 2026.

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WE Empower UN SDG Challenge 2020 Awardee Cloud to Street featured on the cover of Nature magazine

Congratulations to WE Empower 2020 awardees Bessie Schwarz and Beth Tellman on their life saving work! Cloud to Street co-founders Tellman and Schwarz recently released the ‘largest observed dataset of floods’ to the public free of charge.

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Five women entrepreneurs named awardees for the 2021 WE Empower UN SDG Challenge

The WE Empower UN SDG Challenge – a global business challenge led in partnership by Vital Voices Global Partnership and Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU – today

ASU recognized as nation's most impactful for second straight year

With sustainability long held as a core value across the entire university and home to the nation's first comprehensive Global Futures Laboratory, ASU was again ranked by Time Higher Education as

ASU is among the leaders in patents granted, startups launched

Arizona State University, through SkySong Innovations, continues to achieve high rankings in technology transfer metrics. With 129 patents awarded in FY19, ASU is No. 4 out of 58 universities and colleges in this peer group.

When She Leads: The power and potential of women’s entrepreneurship

On March 16th, 2021 the United Nations Global Compact’s Target Gender Equality Live event convened leaders from business, government, civil society and academia to discuss and demonstrate how the private

Celebrating Women's Empowerment at ASU: Launching the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge 2021

In honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Educational Outreach and Student Services, and the ASU SDG5 Coalition are curating a

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Millenium Immobilier: Engineering sustainable homes

Ghislaine Tessa Ketcha, founder and CEO of Millenium Immobilier, Cameroon, 2020 WE Empower Finalist, Sub-Saharan Africa The continuation of climate change is expected to bring about detrimental effects across the

Aequales: Closing gender gaps through innovative measurement and consultancy services

Andrea De la Piedra and Mia Perdomo - Co-Founders of Aequales, Latin America 2020 WE Empower Finalist, Latin America and the Caribbean Ensuring gender equality in today’s world is one

Feb 10: Carbon negative tech innovation event

Webinar will feature innovative technologies from the United States, Japan, and internationally that are capable of reducing and sequestering carbon across the built and natural environments.

ECOnsult signs MOU with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development

On January 26th, 2021, ECOnsult signed an MOU with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development to create climate resilience awareness and green building guidelines for Egypt’s low-income villages. This