
India faces a huge financing gap to tackle climate change and the SDGs
India’s GDP could fall by 90 per cent by 2100 if climate finance isn’t improved. As the country tackles Covid, it mustn’t lose sight of sustainability.
India’s GDP could fall by 90 per cent by 2100 if climate finance isn’t improved. As the country tackles Covid, it mustn’t lose sight of sustainability.
Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching peace with Eritrea. Yet, Indigenous groups in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley have been abused by security forces, a fact that the prime minister must address, says the Oakland Institute.
The livelihood of millions depends on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), especially in Sub-Sarahan Africa. Yet this practice comes at a significant environmental and human cost.
On 19 November we celebrate World Toilet Day, the international day dedicated to a global sanitation challenge: over 2 billion people lack access to a toilet.
So-called development projects in the Lower Omo Valley, including a dam and sugar plantations, have come at an unbearable cost for indigenous communities. Elizabeth Fraser, Senior Policy Analyst at the Oakland Institute, on why the only way forward is for Ethiopia to address such abuse.
The future of humankind is closely linked to biodiversity: it provides us with our livelihoods and brings joy in our lives.
53 groundbreaking ideas to save women and children after birth in poor communities around the world. These are the finalists of the Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge.
The island nation of Niue has paid off all its national debt. With the promise of a more modest and happy lifestyle based on a community living within its means.
A project aimed to rediscover the importance of roses in Morocco created an opportunity for development and women’s empowerment, and repopulated a valley that would otherwise be abandoned.
The index examines how nations contribute to “the common good of humanity” measuring their wellbeing, equality, CO2 reduction. Sweden is ranked first.