Aid
Weak workplan wounds Paris Agreement
Joydeep Gupta, Soumya Sarkar, Chris Davy, Fermin Koop, Yao Zhe, Tom Baxter The Paris Agreement, itself a compromise that is not enough to combat […]
Category: Sustainable Development
Aid
Afghanistan scales up ecosystem-based solutions to help build disaster resilience
Afghanistan is one of the frontline countries taking forward affordable ecosystem-based solutions to reducing disaster risk.
Data & Reports
WHO report highlights poor safety on the world’s roads
A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates road traffic deaths continue to rise, with an annual 1.35 million fatalities. The WHO Global […]
Climate
Why we should stop labelling people climate change deniers
Meanwhile, far from the pomp and formality of COP meetings, do local populations feel engaged in climate change action? I doubt it.
Aid
World Bank Group Announces $200 billion over Five Years for Climate Action
By ramping up direct adaptation finance to reach around $50 billion over FY 21-25, the World Bank will, for the first time, give this equal emphasis alongside investments...
Sustainable Business
Calls for Police Protection for Uncontacted Tribe
Survival has launched an emergency action, “4 weeks for the Kawahiva”, to encourage Brazil’s government to map out their land and prevent their genocide before Jair Bolsonaro becomes...
Cities
Indian Cities need multi-pronged efforts to conserve groundwater
For more than two billion people across the world aquifers are the primary water source but the shocking reality is that key groundwater basins in all the inhabited...
Aid
Remittances and migration: the case of Nepal
To reach their place of work, Nepalese international workers must often pay fees for airfares, recruitment agencies, medical exams and orientation training. There are also often long and...
Climate
State and Regional Governments Decarbonizing at Double the Rate of G20 Governments
This year, 37 governments from Argentina, Brazil, Columbia Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico disclosed, and Latin America became the second largest group of disclosing governments after Europe.
Sustainable Business
HSBC CEO Slammed For Coal Double-Standard at Climate Finance Summit
Activists hijack twitter feed and confront HSBC over discriminatory coal policy Activists continued their campaign against HSBC’s CEO John Flint and his bank’s double […]
Climate
From German Trains to South Korean Buses, Hydrogen Fuel is back in the Energy Picture
Bianca Nogrady As the price of renewable energy drops and storage technologies mature, hydrogen fuel is drawing fresh attention. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis was refueling his […]
Data & Reports
Global wage growth lowest since 2008: ILO
But, in many low- and middle-income economies, wage inequality remains high and wages are frequently insufficient to cover the needs of workers and their families.