These days, it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. Aid agencies are increasingly worried ...

At around 3 am on Sunday morning, in a drained plenary, the gavel slammed to bring COP29 to a close. Coming at the end of a convulsive final day in Baku, Azerbaijan, the conclusion of the Conference ...

IN ONE OF his final acts of global engagement, Pope Francis convened a Jubilee Commission of experts—including ourselves and other leading experts in debt and development—at the Vatican to address a ...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Alden Meyer, a senior consultant at E3G, an independent climate ...

Casa dos Ventos wind turbines operate in Serra da Babilonia in Morro do Chapeu, Bahia state, Brazil, on May 17, 2023. Maria Magdalena Arrellaga/Bloomberg—Getty Images As the world accelerates efforts ...

Shannon Gibson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

How private investors are making billions from countries in debt - IN DEPTH: Exclusive: As an escalating climate crisis and a ...

At the U.N. climate talks in Azerbaijan, negotiators struck a deal at the last moment. Wealthy nations pledged $300 billion a year by 2035 to help developing countries deal with the impacts of climate ...

We’re almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and the past 25 years or so have been a tale of two economies when it comes to bridging the gap between the world’s richest and poorest ...

Lewis King acknowledges support from the Horizon Europe programme through an ERC Advanced Grant for the project CLIMGROW (grant no. 101097924). Ivan Savin does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...

The World Bank supported 64 countries in building cyber resilience between 2014 and 2024. Between 2015 and 2018, the World Bank helped establish Bhutan’s national Computer Security Incident Response ...

The government is shut down this week, but the rest of the world doesn’t pause or de-escalate for the sake of Capitol Hill. Last month, Russia fired more than 1,500 strike drones, 1,280 glide bombs, ...