Each of the Geneva-based global initiatives developed by the GESDA Foundation won pledges of millions of Swiss francs.
GENEVA (AN) — A Swiss foundation announced it will open a new international institute for quantum computing by March 2024 and advance its plans to offer a global science diplomacy curriculum in several years.
Each of the Geneva-based global initiatives developed by the GESDA Foundation – the creation of an Open Quantum Institute and a global science diplomacy curriculum – won pledges of millions of Swiss francs for scaling up, and, in the case of the institute, a partner to give it a home.
IUGS rejected declaring that we live in a new epoch defined by far-reaching human impacts on the planet since the 1950s.
Proposed by the U.S. and co-sponsored by China and more than 120 other nations, its passage represented a moment of international cooperation through science diplomacy.
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The Open Quantum Institute began a three-year pilot phase hosted by the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
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The wars in Europe and the Middle East, climate change and soaring national debts hung over the annual talks.
