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Global Organized Crime Index
The Global Organized Crime Index, also called the OC Index, is a GI-TOC expert assessment scoring all 193 UN member states on criminality and resilience (1–10) across criminal markets, criminal actors and 12 resilience indicators, published in 2021, 2023 and 2025 editions.
Global Partnership on AI
The Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) is an intergovernmental initiative for responsible, human-centric AI development, launched in 2020 by 14 countries and the EU, and integrated with the OECD since 2024.
Global Payments
Global Payments Inc. is a Fortune 500 payments technology company based in Georgia serving more than 6 million merchant locations across over 175 countries, and acquired Worldpay in 2026.
Global Peace Index
Global Peace Index (GPI): annual ranking of 163 countries' peacefulness by the Institute for Economics and Peace since 2007, using 23 indicators across safety, conflict, and militarisation domains; Iceland has led since 2008.
Global phase
A global phase is a complex factor of unit modulus, e^(iθ), that multiplies a quantum state vector with no observable effect, though it becomes measurable when applied in a controlled manner.
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a US satellite navigation system providing position and time worldwide, operated by the Space Force and fully operational since 1993.
Global Power Synergy
Global Power Synergy (GPSC) is a Thai power and utilities company founded in 2013 by amalgamating PTT Utility and Independent Power (Thailand) as PTT Group's power flagship.
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre
The Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), established in 1989 under the World Meteorological Organization, is operated by Deutscher Wetterdienst in Germany and produces gridded precipitation analyses from over 124,000 rain gauge stations.
Global Precipitation Climatology Project
The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) is an international project begun in 1986 under the World Climate Research Programme that merges satellite and gauge data into global precipitation analyses.
Global Precipitation Measurement mission
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is an international satellite network co-led by NASA and JAXA, launched in 2014, providing global rain and snow observations.
Global Privacy Control
Global Privacy Control (GPC), sent as the HTTP header Sec-GPC, is a browser signal opting users out of the sale, sharing, and cross-site targeting of their data.
Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis
Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF), WHO programme launched in 2000 after WHA 50.29; uses annual mass drug administration and morbidity care; 10.3 billion treatments delivered, 23 countries validated, 361 million still requiring MDA in 2025.
Global public health
Global public health: field studying health problems shaped by globalization, inequality, and migration; emerged as 'global health' replaced 'international health'; served by journals Global Public Health (2006) and PLOS Global Public Health (2021).
Global recession
A global recession, also called a global economic recession, is a synchronized contraction of world economic activity, defined as a decline in world real GDP per capita.
Global Resource Optimization Fund, L.P.
Global Resource Optimization Fund, L.P., formerly Impax Green Markets Fund, L.P., is a Delaware private equity fund managed by Impax Asset Management in London since 2011.
Global Seismographic Network
The Global Seismographic Network (GSN) is a global network of about 150 seismic stations, established in 1988, that records earthquakes and provides its data free in real time.
Global Semiconductor Alliance
The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) is a Dallas, Texas-based trade association for the semiconductor industry, founded in 1994 as the Fabless Semiconductor Association and renamed in 2007.
Global Slavery Index
Global Slavery Index (GSI), Walk Free's flagship report, estimates modern slavery prevalence, vulnerability, and government response for 160 countries; 2023 edition reports 50 million people in modern slavery in 2021, up 10 million since 2016.
Global Solar Atlas
The Global Solar Atlas (GSA) is a free, web-based World Bank tool, launched in January 2017, offering solar resource maps and photovoltaic power calculations worldwide, with data developed by Solargis.
Global spread of chytrid fungi
The global spread of chytrid fungi is the worldwide dissemination of the amphibian pathogens Bd and Bsal, now detected in 86 countries and driven by commercial trade.
Global spread of H5N1
Global spread of H5N1: worldwide dissemination of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 (Gs/Gd lineage, clade 2.3.4.4b since 2020), a panzootic in wild birds and poultry across 76+ countries and Antarctica, with mammalian spillovers including US dairy cattle and rare human cases.
Global spread of H5N1 in 2005
Global spread of H5N1 in 2005: westward expansion of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 from southeast Asia to Qinghai Lake, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tibet, Turkey, and Romania, with rising human cases and pandemic preparedness efforts.
Global Steel Climate Council
The Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC) is a non-profit coalition of steel producers and stakeholders that maintains the Steel Climate Standard, a technology-neutral framework for reducing steelmaking emissions.
Global Stocktake
The global stocktake is a Paris Agreement process under Article 14, held every five years, in which countries assess collective progress toward the Agreement's climate goals.
Global storm-resolving model
A global storm-resolving model (GSRM) is an atmospheric model with a mesh finer than about 5 km that simulates convective storms explicitly rather than by parameterization.
Global Super League
Global Super League (GSL), ExxonMobil Guyana Global Super League T20: annual five-team franchise cricket tournament at Providence Stadium, Guyana, launched November 2024, sanctioned by Cricket West Indies, US$1 million prize; champions Rangpur Riders 2024, Guyana Amazon Warriors 2025 and 2026.
Global Surf School
Global Surf School names several unrelated surf schools: a Spanish school opened 2016 at Punta del Moral, Isla Canela, Huelva, and a Portuguese school and camp founded 2007 at Praia da Areia Branca, Lourinhã, plus a Global Surf in Sidi Kaouki, Morocco.
Global surveillance
Global surveillance is the mass monitoring of communications and personal data across borders by states, built on Five Eyes signals intelligence and exposed by Edward Snowden's 2013 disclosures.
Global Symposium for Regulators
The Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) is an annual conference organized by the ITU that brings together national telecom regulators, held since 2000 and concluding with best practice guidelines.
Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries
The Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP) is a trade agreement, signed in 1988, under which developing countries grant each other tariff preferences.