ADB Report Shares Best Practices in Chinese Cities to Combat Climate Change
Cities in developing Asia and the Pacific are growing fast, but this surge in urbanization has led to increasing pollution and environmental concerns, threatening...
UN climate change conference in Katowice: Questions and Answers
What will happen at COP24?
This year's annual conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be...
Two World Conferences- What Can We Expect?
President Trump's abrupt cancellation of bilateral talks with Mr. Putin at the G-20 meeting in Argentina -- following the seizure of Ukrainian ships by...
The need for speed on modern slavery
Three years ago, world leaders committed to take effective measures to end modern slavery by 2030. By the best estimates, there are around 40.3...
Business Urges Governments to Step Up Fight Against Climate Change
Heads of 50 major global businesses representing more than $1.5 trillion in total revenue today publish an open letter to world government leaders urging...
A new world system, or a world without a hegemon
The state of the world and, frequently, the course of history depended on the foundation on which peace on Earth was based - either...
Meat and Consequences: More Bad News for Climate Change
Thanksgiving is quite a U.S. holiday. In one day, we manage to eat and enjoy 44 million turkeys, twice the number consumed at Christmas. ...
The most polluted capital in Europe, you didn’t even know about
“Mama, why do I have to wear this again? It hurts my mouth,” says Norik, 5, to his mother, Igballe, before she puts a...
After secularism, what?
In the beginning of December 2016, Angela Merkel called for a burka ban during the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party’s congress. Specifically, she...
Electric car-sharing arrives in Nairobi
Rush hour in Nairobi, Kenya, and the streets are packed with columns of vehicles pumping out fumes, waiting their turn to inch through the...