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Global Gender Gap Report
Annual World Economic Forum report since 2006 using the Global Gender Gap Index to rank economies on parity in economic participation, education, health, and political empowerment; 2025 score 68.8% closed, led by Iceland.
Global governance
Global governance, also known as international governance, is the ordering produced by institutions, norms, and agreements governing actors beyond their borders for a shared good, without any world government.
Global Health
Global health is a multidisciplinary field of study, research, and practice that aims to improve health and achieve health equity worldwide, emerging as a distinct field in the late 1990s.
Global heart
Global Heart: peer-reviewed open-access journal of the World Heart Federation, formerly CVD Prevention and Control, publishing cardiovascular prevention research focused on low- and middle-income countries; published by Ubiquity Press since 2020, ISSNs 2211-8160 and 2211-8179.
Global Historical Climatology Network
The Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) is a family of quality-controlled climate datasets maintained by NOAA, covering temperature and precipitation from land stations worldwide since 1992.
Global Hunger Index
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a peer-reviewed annual composite index, originally by IFPRI and now published by Welthungerhilfe, IFHV, and Helvetas, scoring countries 0-100 on undernourishment, child stunting, wasting, and mortality; the 2026 global score is 18.1 (moderate).
Global illumination
Global illumination (GI), also called indirect illumination, is a rendering technique in computer graphics that simulates both direct light and indirect light bounced off surfaces, producing realistic images.
Global imbalances
Global imbalances are large, persistent current account surpluses and deficits across countries, peaking at 5.5 percent of global GDP in 2006 and near 150-year highs today.
Global Industry Classification Standard
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) is a four-level taxonomy for classifying companies by sector and industry, developed in 1999 by S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI.
Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management
The Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) is a voluntary standard for safe mine tailings management, launched in 2020 after the Brumadinho dam collapse.
Global Infrastructure Partners
Global Infrastructure Partners is a New York infrastructure investment firm founded in 2006 by Adebayo Ogunlesi, known for Gatwick and Sydney airports and acquired by BlackRock in 2024.
Global Infrastructure Partners Emerging Markets
Global Infrastructure Partners Emerging Markets is the emerging-markets infrastructure private equity strategy of Global Infrastructure Partners, whose inaugural fund closed in March 2024 with over $2.1 billion.
Global Innovation Index
Global Innovation Index (GII), WIPO's annual innovation ranking launched in 2007 by Soumitra Dutta at INSEAD, scores about 140 economies on roughly 80 indicators across input and output sub-indices and ranks the top 100 innovation clusters; Switzerland has led for 15 consecutive years.
Global Internet usage
Global Internet usage: about 6 billion people, 74% of humanity, used the Internet in 2025 per ITU estimates, up from 60% in 2020, with 2.2 billion offline and divides by income, region, and skills.
Global Investment Performance Standards
The Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) are voluntary standards for how investment firms calculate and present performance, claimed firm-wide and followed by 1,778 organizations in 48 markets as of 2023.
Global Land Data Assimilation System
The Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) is a NASA modeling system that combines satellite and ground observations to generate global fields of soil moisture, temperature, and runoff since 2001.
Global Laser Enrichment
Global Laser Enrichment is a US joint venture, owned by Australia's Silex Systems and Canada's Cameco, holding the exclusive worldwide license to the SILEX laser uranium enrichment technology.
Global Lighthouse Network
The Global Lighthouse Network is a World Economic Forum initiative, cofounded with McKinsey, recognizing factories that deploy Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale, launched in 2018.
Global Longitudinal Strain
Global longitudinal strain (GLS) is a speckle-tracking echocardiographic measure of left ventricular deformation, negative by convention, normal below −18%; it predicts cardiac outcomes better than ejection fraction.
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is the international satellite and radio system that lets ships in distress automatically alert shore rescue authorities and nearby vessels.
Global marketing
Global marketing, also known as international marketing, is the coordination of a firm's marketing across countries, standardizing some elements worldwide while adapting others locally; the dominant approach is glocalization.
Global Methane Pledge
The Global Methane Pledge is a voluntary commitment launched at COP26 in 2021 to cut global methane emissions at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030.
Global mobile Suppliers Association
The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) is a not-for-profit industry association representing mobile equipment and device suppliers worldwide. Founded in 1998, it promotes 3GPP technologies from GSM through 5G.
Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking
Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) is an open-access web platform for curating and analyzing small-molecule tandem mass spectrometry data, whose molecular networking links related molecules.
Global Navigation Satellite System surveying
GNSS surveying is the use of satellite navigation signals from GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo, received by survey-grade equipment, to determine precise coordinates for control and mapping.
Global News
Global News is the news division of Canada's Corus Entertainment, running Global TV stations, Global News Radio and Globalnews.ca with 21 newsrooms and about 30 million monthly site visitors; its parent underwent a CRTC-approved debt-for-equity recapitalization in 2026.
Global North and Global South
The Global North and Global South, also called the North-South divide, are terms for the geopolitical split between richer, more powerful countries and poorer ones.
Global Ocean Forecasting System
The Global Ocean Forecasting System (GOFS) is the United States Navy's global ocean and sea ice forecasting system, built on the HYCOM model and run daily.
Global Ocean Observing System
The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) is an intergovernmental framework led by UNESCO's IOC, created in 1991, that coordinates ocean observing networks delivering data on essential ocean variables.
Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP)
The Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP) is an international network of about 55 ocean survey lines repeated roughly every decade, measuring full-depth changes in heat, carbon, oxygen, and salinity.