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This month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland succeeded in producing a rulebook to implement the 2015 Paris climate...

In a recent report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that without “rapid and far-reaching” changes to how land, energy,...

The stunning victory this month of the opposition Indian National Congress in three elections to state assemblies – the local “parliaments” that...

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to withdraw her country from the European Union in an orderly fashion is collapsing. Though she has survived a...

Imagine a world in which women and girls have their rights respected, climate change receives the attention it so urgently requires, and poverty has been...

On November 29, after two weeks of contentious negotiations at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 196 countries agreed to...

The terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, on December 11 came after a month in which the “Yellow Vest” protests in Paris and...

Thirty years ago, when the international community marked the first World AIDS Day, we thought we would never turn the tide against HIV. But after millions...

The world is mired in a serious, if underreported, crisis. Every year, humans generate about two billion tons of household waste, and much more industrial,...

The European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD predict that, on average, the European Union’s economy will grow by 1.9 per cent...