Fashionably sustainable plus shaping Cop24 outcome
The apparel industry has a climate problem and it wants to do something about it.…
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Europe must place sustainable well-being for all at heart
In six months, millions of Europeans will go to the ballot box to choose the…
Time to adapt to changing climate: What it means for water?
by Greg Browder As COP24 in Poland reaches its mid-point, it is becoming distressingly obvious…
Cop24: Move to prepare negotiating texts on Paris Work Plan
Katowice, 7 Dec (Prerna Bomzan and Meena Raman)- At a stocktake plenary held on 6…
Stocktake on execution, ambition of pre-2020 actions begins
Katowice, 6 Dec (Evelyn Teh)- The technical part of the stocktake on the pre-2020 implementation and…
Call for a win-win framework at COP24
An African delegation is in the Polish city of Katowice to join 30,000 delegates and…
Watering the Paris Agreement at COP24
Most people will experience climate change in the form of water – higher frequency and…
Local Government role critical to achieving SDGs
Dhaka, Dec 5 – Experts at a dialogue on Wednesday said, local governments are critical…
Localise SDGs for inclusive development: Speakers
Speakers at a dialogue stressed the need for involving all, including the grassroots people, in…
A cautionary tale to be had from Swedish school reforms
Since the general election in September, Sweden has found itself in a political deadlock awaiting…
Get ready for COP24: Transition to a sustainable future
By Manuela Matthess Berlin, Dec 3 2018 (IPS) – COP24 is the time for g…
Argentina is no climate leader
by Fernando Cabrera Neuquen – Argentinian President Mauricio Macri claims that exploiting his country’s oil…
COP 24 must be the turning point towards ‘Just Transition’
The next round of global climate negotiations, COP 24, takes place in December. It will…
ADB promotes climate-smart dev investments in Bangladesh
The government of Bangladesh, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and stakeholders at a dissemination forum on…
What fish can do for the WTO
Fish will soon be off the menu, unless global leaders strike a deal ending multi-billion…
Video: Sustainable Blue Economy Conference, Nairobi, Kenya 2018
By IPS World Desk Rome, Nov 24 2018 (IPS) – The first global Sustainable Blue…
Manifestos must tell steps to make developing country: CPD
The Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD) today underscored the need for keeping specific initiatives by…
High growth firms create jobs: But what drives firm growth?
A new report looks at the characteristics of high-growth firms, drivers of high-growth, and what…
All SDGs relate in some way to the oceans
When Peter Thomson, the United Nation’s Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, heard in…
Women still face challenges in pursuing desired career
Though the presence of women is growing gradually in all types of jobs, women still…
20 years timeline to build a new civilization: Prof. Yunus
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has set a 20-year timeline to build a new civilization…
Peace, stability not possible sans rural development
Rome, 9 November 2018 – At this week’s Paris Peace Forum, Gilbert F. Houngbo, President…
‘Bangladesh shouldn’t rely too much on overseas borrowing’
Bangladesh needs to mobilise domestic investment alongside increasing it in infrastructure with ‘spillover tax revenues’…
Why should countries invest in food safety?
Unsafe food costs low- and middle-income economies US$ 110 billion in lost productivity and medical…
Over 200mn women still waiting for modern contraception
By Thalif Deen Ottawa, Canada, Oct 23 (IPS) – The international community will be commemorating…
35 dredgers worth Tk 4.5bn for better river navigability
Dhaka – The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved a…
Mitigating India’s climate-change misery
Gulrez Shah Azhar Santa Monica – The record-setting heat that blanketed the planet this summer…
The latest climate science must mobilize us, not paralyze us
Monica Araya and Carlos Manuel Rodriguez San Jose – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
780 mn people in Asia-Pacific out of extreme poverty by 2013
Asia and the Pacific accounted for 42.6% of global GDP at purchasing power parity in…
Going above and beyond to end poverty
New ways of measuring poverty shed new light on the challenges ahead. The fight to…