The Paris Agreement on climate change is a decade old this month. While there has been progress – with new net zero pledges ...
At the 2021 UN Climate Summit, Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley called for more and better use of special drawing rights ...
Despite being displaced three times, Bisan Okasha created Seeds of Resilience, a collaborative initiative designed to revive home gardens in Gaza.
Nobody should be fooled by President Biden’s recent warning to Israel that the U.S. may level consequences if it doesn’t do ...
As COP16 approaches, we have been reflecting on the state of our planet in 2024; the word “crisis” feels insufficient to ...
The students and the common people of Bangladesh dared to do something in 36 days of July-August that was considered simply ...
Hurricanes Helene and Milton resulted in record-setting rain, flooding, and flash flooding events across several states, ...
Finance emerged as COP16's biggest issue. China formally announced that the Kunming Biodiversity Fund was now fully in operation.
New institutional economics (NIE) has received another so-called Nobel prize, ostensibly for again claiming that good institutions and democratic governance ensure growth, development, equity and ...
Attacks on Lebanon over the past two months, as instigated by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been increasingly indiscriminate. The Disaster Risk Management Unit at the Lebanese Council of ...
Lack of water threatens the very existence of family farming in Chile, forcing farmers to adopt new techniques or to leave their land. The shortage is caused by a 15-year drought and exacerbated by ...
While the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on food system disruptions was widely covered, underlying food system vulnerabilities across Asia and the Pacific had been steadily growing long ...