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Rising Temperatures Drive Human-Wildlife Conflict in Zimbabwe
Rising temperatures are being blamed for an increase in human-wildlife conflicts in Zimbabwe as animals such as snakes leave their natural habitat earlier than usual. High temperatures have also ...
More Diversified Trade Can Make Middle East & Central Asia More Resilient
Dislocations from the pandemic, geoeconomic fragmentation, and Russia’s war in Ukraine have shifted world trade dynamics. While this has created challenges, the redirection of trade has also ge...
Afghan Women Struggle with Soaring Mental Health Issues
The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons
From Dorms to Demonstrations
The campus protests that have spread to universities in every part of the United States are not about the war between Israel and Hamas, despite the heated rhetoric around this topic. Most of the ...
Chronicle of a Catastrophe Foretold
The IMF warns of a decade ahead of ‘tepid growth’ and ‘popular discontent’, with the poorest economies worst off. But as with inaction on Gaza, little is being done multilaterally to aver...
Ocean Action on Global Agenda as Negotiations to Save Biodiversity Deepen
The oceans are as fascinating as they are mysterious. Home to the largest animals to ever live on Earth and billions of the tiniest, the top 100 meters of the open oceans host the majority of sea...
Educating the Mind Without Educating the Heart is No Education at All
The words above, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, serve as a reminder that we still have a long way to go to in educating ourselves. In doing so, we will naturally ensure that the youn...
SBSTTA and SBI—Biodiversity Meetings Crucial for the Global South Begin
More than 1,400 delegates are present at two crucial meetings, where the topic of preserving the planet's ongoing biodiversity for the benefit of humanity is under discussion. Under the spotlight...
Bringing the World’s Food Production in Line with Global Climate Goals
Food systems—how we grow, transport, prepare, and dispose of the food we eat—are responsible for roughly one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions. And those gases are changing the cli...
Biodiversity Masterplan: Negotiations on Crucial Science, Technology for Implementation Underway
The triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and waste are escalating. At the current pace, the world is on track to lose one quarter of all plant and animal speci...
South Africa will be President of G20 in 2025: Two much-needed Reforms it Should Drive
South Africa will play an important international role in 2025 as president of the G20. The G20 is a group of 19 countries as well as the African Union and the European Union. Between them they r...
The World Must Not Abandon the Mothers of Gaza
As millions of children and families celebrate their mothers, my thoughts turn to the pregnant women and new mothers our teams at UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, ...
Latin America and the Caribbean Hit with Record-Breaking Heat and Other Climate Effects in 2023
The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean report documents the Region’s struggles with the devastating impacts of climate change, and urg...
Inclusivity, Impact, and Innovation Needed to Meet SDGs, UN Civil Society Conference Hears
The world is neither on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) nor is it leveraging emerging opportunities to effectively address global concerns such as extreme hunger, poverty, ...
The Bleak déjà vu in Darfur
As dawn breaks over Darfur, my return after two decades feels heavy. Many millions are suffering once again. Twenty years ago, I was part of the humanitarian effort to make a difference. That was...
Dissenting Voices at Nairobi Soil Health Forum Over Increased Fertilizer Use
As the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit convened in Nairobi to review the progress made in terms of increasing fertilizer use in line with the 2006 Abuja Declaration, experts, practitione...
Beyond the Fields: Unraveling Zambia’s Drought Crisis and the Urgent Call for Climate-Health Solutions
For most families in Zambia, April is traditionally a month of plenty—it is typically the beginning of a harvest season for various food and cash crops. Both fresh and dried maize, groundnuts, ...
Trade Liberalisation Kicked Away African Development Ladder
Africans have long been promised trade liberalisation would accelerate growth and structural transformation. Instead, it has cut its modest production capacities, industry and food security. Berg...
Amid Record Displaced Persons, Migrant Remittances Spike—New IOM Report
While there have been a record number of displaced people worldwide, according to a new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), migrant remittances are promoting human devel...
How do Taxes Drive the Sustainable Development Goals?
Tax revenue remains the most sustainable source of income for governments and plays a crucial role in financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It diminishes the need for international ...
Working to Keep Náhuat, the Language of the Pipil People, from Vanishing in El Salvador
A group of children participating in an immersion program in Náhuat, the language of the Pipil people and the only remaining pre-Hispanic language in El Salvador, are the last hope that the lang...
Civil Society Scores LGBTQI+ Rights Victory in Dominica
On 22 April, Dominica’s High Court struck down two sections of the country’s Sexual Offences Act that criminalised consensual same-sex relations, finding them unconstitutional. This made Domi...
1.8 Million More Palestinians Doomed to Poverty if Gaza War Persists
Nearly seven months into the Gaza war, the UN warns that to rebuild and restore the buildings lost in this period, it would take several decades, and to revitalize Palestine’s economy, it would...
LDCs Need Concessional Grants, Not Loans, Say Experts
Olaide Bankole was born and raised in Nigeria, and he observed how climate change was evident in the country with temperature rises and rainfall variability and how drought, desertification, and ...
Media Freedom Declining Across Europe, With Implications for Rule of Law
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Rainy Chiloé, in Southern Chile, Faces Drinking Water Crisis
The drinking water supply in the southern island of Chiloé, one of Chile’s rainiest areas, is threatened by damage to its peatlands, affected by sales of peat and by a series of electricity pr...
We Should Aim to be at Peace with Nature, Says David Cooper of UN Convention on Biological Diversity
In a world faced with habitat loss and species extinction, climate change, and pollution, it’s crucial that countries develop their national action plans and create a society that lives in harm...
Drought and Unequal Water Rights Threaten Family Farms in Chile
For the rural farmers in Chile, a combination of climate change-induced mega droughts, water policies that make access unaffordable and a State that either doesn’t want to or dares not interve...
Transgender Health Rights Boosted by Hospitals’ ‘Separate Room’ Policy
Transgender people and civil society organizations have welcomed the decision of the chief minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to allocate separate rooms in hospitals for the transgender co...
Using Industrial Waste to Fight Pollution in Brazil
Biogas sounds like redemption, the conversion of the sinner. Its production involves extracting energy from filth, from the most disgusting environmental pollution, and at the same time avoiding ...
Lao PDR Lawmakers Meet to Further ICPD25 Programme of Action
A recent workshop of lawmakers heard that targeted interventions would be necessary to meet the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), its Programme of Action (PoA), and L...
WHO Africa Advances African Science by Promoting Peer-Reviewed Research
The World Health Organization’s African regional office and partners published over 25 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals in 2023 as part of efforts to address the imbalance in globa...
Education Cannot Wait Interviews Amy Clarke, Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer for Tribe Impact Capital LLP
Amy Clarke is Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer of the multi award-winning Tribe Impact Capital, a dedicated impact wealth manager and B Corps, based in London. She has over 29 years of expe...
Latin America’s Shifting Demographics Could Undercut Growth
Latin America’s workforce grew by nearly 50 percent in the two decades before the pandemic, helping boost economic growth. Now demographic trends are turning, and likely to weigh on growth in t...
Cuban Family Harnesses Biogas and Promotes its Benefits
Just to obtain a good fertilizer it was worth building a biodigester, says Cuban farmer Alexis García, who proudly shows the vegetables in his family’s garden, as well as the wide variety of f...