New research outlines pathway to achieve high well-being and a safe climate without economic growth
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Roadmap shows how to achieve good lives for all and a safe climate by reorienting production and distribution toward well-being and ecological transformation instead of capital accumulation and elite consumption.
A new study published in The Journal of Engineering Research introduces a data-driven framework showing that hotel mergers can generate significant resource savings—even among already efficient hotels—by optimising operational inputs such as rooms, beds, staff, and salaries. The approach helps identify merger partnerships with the greatest potential efficiency gains in the hospitality sector.
A new study in PLOS Medicine led by Boston University School of Public Health estimated that the loss of USAID support could generate about $7.5 billion in additional costs for low- and middle-income households that include at least one person diagnosed with TB. An additional four million households could experience “catastrophic costs,” defined by the World Health Organization’s End TB Strategy as costs that include related medical and nonmedical costs, as well as indirect costs, that exceed 20 percent of a person’s annual household income.