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John W. McArthur

Director - Center for Sustainable Development

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

@mcarthur

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We’re going to need a bigger room: Growing the 17 Rooms community for SDG action

Zia Khan and John W. McArthur

Friday, May 20, 2022

A woman wearing a mask as a preventive measure against the spread of covid-19 walks past a sign advertising UN's 'Sustainable development goals' in Ginza.The State of Emergency in Tokyo will last until end of June 2021. (Photo by Stanislav Kogiku / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Getting the world unstuck on the Sustainable Development Goals

Zia Khan and John W. McArthur

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Collaboration

Podcast Episode

What we learned about 17 Rooms and growing the community

Zia Khan and John W. McArthur

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

17 Rooms podcast

Podcast Episode

Introducing 17 Rooms, a podcast about the people driving a new approach for the Sustainable Development Goals

Zia Khan and John W. McArthur

Monday, November 15, 2021

A viewer looks at some preliminary sketches by the visual artist Szczesny. Szczesny started the world's first cultural regatta on the Rhine. The Monheimer Kulturwerke and Szczesny designed 17 sails with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN). The regatta, with boats from the German Sailing League, aims to draw attention to the urgent issues facing our society.

Podcast Episode

17 Rooms, a new podcast for the Sustainable Development Goals

Friday, December 3, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Delegates talk during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain November 13, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo

Podcast Episode

A “breakthrough” agenda on climate finance

Amar Bhattacharya, John Podesta, Zia Khan, and John W. McArthur

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

News Release

Brookings launches the Center for Sustainable Development

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Illustration, women of different faiths

Podcast Episode

Positive influence of faith for gender equality

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Jean Duff, and Blessing Omakwu

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Residents are seen in the Ivorian cocoa farming village of Djigbadji, commonly known as Bandikro or Bandit Town, located inside the Rapides Grah protected forest and destroyed by forest authorities in January 2020, in Soubre, Ivory Coast January 7, 2021. Picture taken January 7, 2021. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Podcast Episode

Valuing local knowledge and solutions for SDG progress

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Jamie Drummond, and Kennedy Odede

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Indian teacher and students wearing protective face mask attend their class at a government girls school after the Rajasthan government allowed schools to reopen for VIth to VIIIth classes in Beawar. (Photo by Sumit Saraswat/Pacific Press/Sipa USA) (Photo by Sumit Saraswat/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Reimagining teaching and learning spaces

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Elizabeth M. King, and Urvashi Sahni

Thursday, January 20, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Scuba divers swim past fish along a coral reef off the west coast of Zanzibar island, Tanzania, December 4, 2007. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (TANZANIA)/File Photo

Podcast Episode

A local problem-solving framework that benefits people and oceans

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Lisa Dreier, and David Obura

Thursday, January 6, 2022

A close view of a local community public toilet in Kibera.World Toilet Day is an official United Nations international observance day on 19 November to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis Worldwide. This is always set as a reminder of proper sanitation and the importance of having a toilet across our local neighborhoods to avoid the spreading and contracting of diseases amongst ourselves and also protect our waters and climate against pollution from the disposal of flying toilet bags. (Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Making human waste a resource at scale

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Letitia Obeng, and Jennifer Sara

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

On March 11, 2021 a coalition of healthcare advocacy community organizations gathered outside Pfizer Worldwide Headquarters in Manhattan to call on the Biden administration to push pharmaceutical companies to commit to equitable global gaccine distribution and help end the pandemic everywhere by supporting the waiver of the World Trade Organizations monopoly protections for Big Pharma and the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool and to ensure an equitable vaccine distribution throughout the world. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

Reducing inequality has no easy answers

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Martín Abregú, and Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

A boy walks past makeshift toilets erected beneath electricity pylons, ahead of local government elections in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, October 27, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Podcast Episode

New targets and metrics for energy reliability, productivity, and quality

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Todd Moss, and Clare Boland Ross

Thursday, January 13, 2022