WEF and Partners Launch New Toolbox to Scale Urban Decarbonization and Resilience
The World Economic Forum, in partnership with four leading organizations, is launching today a first-of-its-kind platform for urban decarbonization, the Toolbox of Solutions, at...
Invest more in Africa’s Sahel, or risk decades of armed conflict and displacement
Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement, exacerbated by rising temperatures, scarcity...
Racism and discrimination against children rife in countries worldwide
Racism and discrimination against children based on their ethnicity, language and religion, are rife in countries across the world, according to a new report...
WEF Report Maps How Companies Can Commit to Earning Digital Trust
Digital trust is the expectation by individuals that digital technologies and services – and the organizations providing them – will protect all stakeholders’ interests...
As climate change intensifies, Europe seeks local ways to adapt
By ANDREW DUNNE
In Greece’s capital Athens, an ancient aqueduct could get a new lease of life as Europe steps up efforts to cope with global...
Act together now, to prevent ‘raging food catastrophe’ next year
Without coordinated action, this year’s “crisis of affordability” threatens to become a dire global food shortage in 2023, the UN chief told the G20...
Is “la France – the Third world”?
“France is falling apart. Worse, it shows signs of a rapid transition to the third world. Lack of food and medicine, degradation of public...
Ramping up renewables to power the clean future of inland shipping
By MICHAEL ALLEN
Compared to other industries, such as agriculture or energy, transport is the only sector with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions higher now than in...
We will win again: African activists promise resistance at home to oil-and-gas touting leaders
Climate activists from across sub-Saharan Africa gathered this morning in response to the dash for fossil fuels by African leaders at COP27.
African leaders have...
Germany in secret talks to buy Iranian oil: report
An Israeli paper has claimed that Germany is in “secret” talks with Tehran to buy Iranian oil as part of its efforts to wean...