Countries: Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, World Source: Save the Children An estimated 600,000 children were hit by floods between August and the beginning of September in more than a dozen countries, forcing many out of school or delaying the start of the academic year.

In her first-ever State of the European Union speech last week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made clear the European Union means business on its greenhouse gas reductions, putting forward a new and more radical target of a 55% overall cut in emissions within a decade as part […]

In a decision that is potentially important for licensors as well as licensees of standard essential patents (SEPs), a panel of the Ninth Circuit has vacated an injunction that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entered in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) challenge to […]

Issue Post September 24, 2020 Food market stability: A necessary step for global social and environmental sustainability Pablo Elverdin Martin Piñeiro Valeria Piñeiro Estefania Puricelli Marcelo Regunaga Federico Villarreal A strategy for agricultural trade.

Countries: Greece, World Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR is calling for urgent action to improve conditions and ensure humane solutions for asylum seekers in reception centres in the Aegean islands, including in the new emergency site on Lesvos.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today formalized its partnership with one of Asia’s leading civil society organizations working to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote transformative, sustainable agriculture. The CSO, Asian Partnership for the Development […]

Duke Energy Begins Work on 94 MW Of New Solar Projects On July 27, 2020, Duke Energy Corporation (“Duke Energy”) announced the commencement of construction on two new major utility-scale solar projects in western North Carolina.  One project is a 69-megawatt (“MW”) facility located in Maiden, Catawba County, and the […]