People in prosperous nations worldwide tend to live well beyond levels the planet can sustain. We prefer diets that are produced with grave environmental impacts and we waste enormous amounts of food. We consume goods endlessly, buying new things constantly and discarding still perfectly workable ones. As a result, we […]

Nov 26, 2019 Press Release New modeling will shed light on how policy decisions affect migration from sea level rise New modeling will shed light on how policy decisions affect migration from sea level rise

Source: World Health Organization, UN Children’s Fund Country: Iraq The five-day campaign aims to target children in 65 districts in the governorates of Baghdad, Babylon, Diwaniya, Diyala, Muthanna, Thi-Qar, Missan and Basra. Baghdad, 26 November 2019 – Health authorities in Iraq, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and […]

Come 2021, the European Investment Bank will cease funding fossil fuel projects, including the use of natural gas. Under the new policy of the Luxembourg-based lending arm of the European Union, gas projects will need to employ “new technologies,” such as carbon capture and storage, to be eligible for funding. […]

The Philippines’ power grid is under the full control of the Chinese government and could be shut off in time of conflict, according to an internal report prepared for lawmakers seen by CNN.

Issue Post November 25, 2019 Democracy and commodity cycles in Latin America and the Caribbean Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla Falling commodity prices roil countries across the region regardless of politics.