The global COVID-19 outbreak has encouraged widespread orders to protect renters and owners of commercial and residential real property. In this 50 state-by-state survey we offer a summary of cities and states that have enacted policies or implemented moratoriums for evictions or foreclosures due to COVID-19. Click here for the full […]

Orange County – The Orange County office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added William B. Tate II as a partner in its real estate practice. Tate joins K&L Gates from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.   Tate concentrates his practice on commercial real estate, development, and lending […]

Countries: Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Niger, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania Source: International Rescue Committee For example, in Somalia, 32% of those tested are positive – in contrast to 3% in Germany – indicating that a huge proportion of COVID cases are […]

Event Post July 30, 2020 Policy seminar: Europe’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies aim to build healthy and sustainable food systems Khiem Nguyen The European Green deal’s implications for building food security.

Even as the planet’s population continues to grow apace, its forests are being cut down to make way for more grazing land, more farmland and more development. Forests are finite resources and once they are gone they are gone for good. That is why halting deforestation worldwide is a high […]

Asia-Pacific’s smallholder family farmers produce most of the world’s food, yet they are facing a disproportionate impact on their livelihoods and food security due to the present coronavirus pandemic, a collaboration of FAO and advocacy groups warned today. The COVID-19 impact on the region’s rural communities, and particularly those in […]

How Did We Get Here? Business leaders are grappling with challenges which are unprecedented and which have not been witnessed on such a global scale previously. As COVID-19 spreads across the world, governments reacted by imposing restrictions on movement of people and goods. Where implemented robustly, these lockdowns and stay-at-home […]