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Challenge 20/20
Challenge 20/20 is a new NAIS global
initiative that provides an opportunity
for public and private schools to
develop international partnerships and
to work toward real solutions to global
problems. Challenge 20/20 brings
together schools in the United States
with schools in other countries.
Together, they identify local solutions
to a global problem. High Noon: Twenty
Global Problems and Twenty Years to
Solve Them by Jean-Francois Rischard The
NAIS Challenge 20/20 program is built
upon the concepts in this book. In his
book, Rischard describes the following
problems. Sharing our planet: Issues
involving the global commons
1. Global warming
2. Biodiversity and ecosystem
losses
3. Fisheries depletion
4. Deforestation
5. Water deficits Sharing our
humanity: Issues requiring global
commitment
6. Maritime safety and pollution
7. Massive step-up in the fight
against poverty
8. Peacekeeping, conflict prevention,
combating terrorism
9. Education for all
10. Global infectious diseases
11. Digital divide
12. Natural disaster prevention and
mitigation Sharing our rule book:
Issues needing a global regulatory
approach
13. Reinventing taxation for the 21st
Century
14. Biotechnology rules
15. Global financial
architecture
16. Illegal drugs
17. Trade, investment, and competition
rules
18. Intellectual property rights
19. E-commerce rules
20. International labor and migration
rules
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