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Globacom
Globacom, widely known as Glo, is a privately owned Nigerian telecommunications company founded by Mike Adenuga, launched in 2003, which pioneered per-second billing and owns the Glo-1 submarine cable.
Global 100 (Corporate Knights)
The Global 100 is an annual ranking of the world's 100 most sustainable publicly traded companies, published each January since 2005 by Toronto-based Corporate Knights.
Global Aerospace (insurance)
Global Aerospace is a London-headquartered specialist aviation and aerospace insurance company formed in 2001 by merging the British Aviation Insurance Group and Associated Aviation Underwriters.
Global AI investment record (H1 2026)
The global AI investment record of H1 2026 saw roughly $430 billion in AI venture funding, exceeding all of 2025, with OpenAI and Anthropic taking 43% of all startup funding.
Global and All-Inclusive Agreement
The Global and All-Inclusive Agreement, or Accord Global et Inclusif, was the power-sharing settlement of the Second Congo War, signed in Pretoria in December 2002 and ratified in April 2003.
Global Arrays
Global Arrays is a PGAS programming toolkit from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that treats distributed arrays as shared memory, best known as the communication layer for NWChem.
Global Assessment of Functioning
Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF): 1-100 clinician-rated Axis V scale of DSM-III-R/DSM-IV for psychological, social, and occupational functioning; removed from DSM-5 in 2013 in favor of WHODAS 2.0; known for reliability and validity problems.
Global Association of International Sports Federations
GAISF (Global Association of International Sports Federations), founded 1967 in Lausanne, also called SportAccord 2009–2016, was the umbrella body for Olympic and non-Olympic international federations; dissolved November 2022, assets of CHF5.66 million split among ASOIF, AIOWF, ARISF, and AIMS.
Global ATM Alliance
The Global ATM Alliance is a coalition of retail banks, founded by six banks in 2001, whose customers avoid two common ATM fees at partner machines abroad.
Global atmospheric electrical circuit
The global atmospheric electrical circuit is the planet-spanning loop of electric currents driven by thunderstorms, flowing up to the ionosphere and back through fair weather.
Global Atmospheric Research Programme
The Global Atmospheric Research Programme (GARP) was an international atmospheric science program launched by the WMO and ICSU in 1967, known for the GATE and FGGE field experiments.
Global Battery Alliance
The Global Battery Alliance (GBA) is a multistakeholder platform founded at the World Economic Forum in 2017 to establish a sustainable, circular battery value chain by 2030.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) is a government-funded international network and data infrastructure, Secretariat in Copenhagen, established 2001, providing open access to over 3.58 billion Darwin Core-standardized species occurrence records with documented geographic and taxonomic bias.
Global Bioenergy Partnership
The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) is a voluntary international initiative hosted by the FAO, launched in 2006 to implement a G8 commitment, best known for its 24 sustainability indicators for bioenergy.
Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point
A Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point, or GSSP, is an internationally agreed reference point in rock strata that defines the lower boundary of a geologic stage, known as a golden spike.
Global brightening
Global brightening is the recovery of sunlight reaching Earth's surface since the 1980s, after decades of decline known as global dimming, driven mainly by reduced air pollution.
Global Burden of Disease Study
Global Burden of Disease (GBD), also called GBD Study: an IHME-led research program quantifying deaths, disability, and risk factors via DALYs for 204 countries, 1990–2023, distinct from WHO Global Health Estimates.
Global capability center
A global capability center (GCC) is an offshore business unit fully owned and operated by its parent multinational company, delivering functions such as software engineering and finance in-house.
Global capability centre
A global capability center (GCC), formerly called a captive or global in-house center, is an offshore unit wholly owned by a multinational to perform its own functions.
Global Carbon Project
The Global Carbon Project is an international research project established in 2001 that publishes the annual Global Carbon Budget, tracking CO2 emissions and the land and ocean sinks.
Global catastrophic risk
Global catastrophic risk (GCR) is the risk of events that could significantly harm or set back human civilization worldwide, with existential risk its extinction-level subset. Core hazards include AI, nuclear war, pandemics, climate change, and impacts; a formal research field emerged in the 2000s.
Global Cement and Concrete Association
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) is a not-for-profit industry association, founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, that represents cement and concrete producers worldwide.
Global citizenship
Global citizenship is the idea of loyalty and belonging to the world community beyond one's nation, with no legal status. Rooted in Stoic cosmopolitanism, formalized through the UN since 1945, and institutionalized in UNESCO's global citizenship education.
Global city
Global city (also world city, alpha city): a primary node in the global economic network concentrating advanced producer services. Defined by Saskia Sassen's four functions; measured by GaWC tiers (Alpha++ London, New York) and rival indices.
Global City Dammam
Global City Dammam (المدينة العالمية بالدمام) is a seasonal multicultural entertainment park on Dammam Island, Saudi Arabia, opened December 29, 2025; a $2 billion three-phase Vision 2030 project with country pavilions, markets, rides, and over 3 million first-season visits.
Global Climate Observing System
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) is an international program, established in 1992 and co-sponsored by the WMO, UNESCO, and UN agencies, that coordinates climate observations and defines 55 Essential Climate Variables.
Global Climate Strike
The Global Climate Strike is a series of internationally coordinated climate protests, mostly by students, organized by Fridays for Future and inspired by Greta Thunberg's 2018 school strike.
Global code motion
Global code motion is a compiler optimization technique introduced by Cliff Click in 1995, the scheduling step that assigns each floating expression a legal, profitable position relative to control flow.
Global Combat Air Programme
The Global Combat Air Programme is a UK, Japan, and Italy program to jointly develop a sixth-generation stealth fighter, announced in December 2022 for service in 2035.
Global Commission on Internet Governance
The Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) was a two-year international commission launched in 2014 by CIGI and Chatham House and chaired by Carl Bildt.