More: Climate Crisis
To beat hunger and combat climate change, world must ‘scale-up’ soil health
Healthy soils are essential to achieve ‘Zero Hunger’ – and other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – peace and prosperity, the United Nations agriculture agency...
Brazil to power up investments in street lighting and energy efficiency
Can you imagine how much money and natural resources could be saved if the world adopted energy efficiency as a priority in sectors such...
The Future of Small Caribbean States
Barely weeks apart, two major announcements in the citizenship by investment world rocked the boat. Two countries from the Eastern side of Europe, who...
The Dutch role model of change
How true leadership in regards of climate change may give outstanding impact to the Asian world
The Netherlands and Indonesia share a special relationship as...
World Bank Group Exceeds its Climate Finance Target with Record Year
The World Bank Group announced today that in fiscal year 2018, 32.1 percent of its financing had climate co-benefits – already exceeding the target...
Côte d’Ivoire: Robust growth under the looming threat of climate change impacts
According to the Economic Update for Côte d’Ivoire, published today, the short- and medium-term outlook for the Ivorian economy remains positive. The economy is...
Beijing joining the ranks of the world’s most liveable cities
Every year, people all over the world tune in to see which cities make it onto the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) list of the...
The importance of real-world policy packages to drive energy transitions
Authors: Anita Hafner, Peter Janoska and Caroline Lee.
Last December, China announced a roadmap for establishing the largest carbon market in the world: an emissions...
Climate Change Could Depress Living Standards in India
Rising temperatures and changing monsoon rainfall patterns from climate change could cost India 2.8 percent of GDP and depress the living standards of nearly...
Rising sea-levels: How to stop a city from sinking
When William Buco, father of five, moved to Dar-es-Salaam thirty years ago the coastline was unrecognizable to today. He could sit on the beaches...