BCF Attends Symposium to Work on Sustainable Development Solutions
July 22, 2015
Casina Pio IV, Vatican City —The Blue Chip Foundation, attends Symposium represented by founder Jennifer Stengaard Gross , was part of a special symposium hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network July 22. The symposium’s goals: to eradicate poverty while protecting human dignity, reach a state of shared prosperity that involves decent, fair jobs for all, and protect the planet by slowing climate change.
Today, 50 percent of the world’s 7 billion people live in cities, and, by 2050, experts say that around 70 percent of the global population will live in urban environments. Cities are typically a hotbed of extreme deprivation and environmental degradation, despite approximately 75 percent of global economic activity originating in these areas. As the urban population grows, so will the urban share of global GDP and investments.
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