COVID-19
COVID-19 could derail SDGs for next five years – report
Dann Okoth The report singles out lost education as one of the worst consequences of the pandemic, warning that its effects could be felt until the […]
Category: Sustainable Development
Climate
Mountains of natural sugar discovered under seagrass, equivalent to 32 billion Coke Cans
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Seagrass beds are underwater oases. Now researchers have discovered vast amounts of sugars underneath seagrass meadows. This sheds […]
Aid
New civil society initiative aims to ‘green’ China-Brazil agriculture trade
Yan Tian Baxter Chinese NGO GEI aims to equip food producing regions in Brazil with good practices to bring about broader changes in agricultural […]
Biodiversity
Global deforestation slowing but tropical rainforests remain under threat, key FAO report shows
The Global Forest Resources Assessment Remote Sensing Survey says expansion of croplands the biggest cause of deforestation The rate at which our forests are […]
Sustainable Business
Bottled water sales rose globally as pandemic took hold
Fiona Broom Families in some of the poorest parts of the world turned to buying bottled water as the pandemic sent countries into lockdown, […]
Aid
A new way of measuring rural poverty yields unexpected results in Malawi
This so-called Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index (R-MPI) was built on the widely accepted notion that household income alone does not fully capture a person’s […]
Aid
Biggest US aid project in Nepal has created turmoil
Dipak Gyawali A Millennium Challenge Corporation grant to build an electricity transmission line has led to widespread criticism, protests and the undermining of democracy […]
Climate
While Australians are joining radical climate activism, the government is designing new laws to stop them
These laws, and their hurried legislation, have been criticised by civil society groups for attempting to undermine the ability for anyone to exercise their […]
Climate
Climate geoengineering Could Put One Billion People Back at Risk of Malaria
Scientists conducted pioneering research to understand how solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering could affect some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable regions. The […]
Sustainable Business
California Handed Its Medicaid Drug Program to One Company. Then Came a Corporate Takeover
Samantha Young California awarded the Medi-Cal Rx program to a unit of Magellan Health, a company with expertise in pharmacy benefits and mental health. […]
Aid
By June, 41 million can go hungry in West Africa, situation worsened by the Ukraine crisis
A staggering 40 percent increase in prices has been witnessed in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Togo, Niger, Mali and Mauritania – pushing […]
Aid
Eviction, torture, rape, murder reported from world famous gorilla national park in DRC
Thousands of Batwa were evicted when the park was expanded in 1975. Since then they’ve mostly lived outside it, in conditions of absolute poverty, […]
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