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AI helps in the fight against marine litter.

Good News

Reduced under-five mortality and fight against marine litter

The two pieces of good news this month are about an underwater robot that removes litter from the sea and the succesful fight against under-five mortality.

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by D+C / E+Z

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Mangrove forests like these on the Island of Borneo are particularly at risk.

Blue Action Fund

Money to safeguard seas and coastlines

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
To keep it out of the oceans, plastic should be collected and recycled: the port in Tripoli, Libya.

Protecting the oceans

A call to action

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
A committee of the European Parliament discussing the Panama Papers in May. The Panama Papers made information about large-scale tax evasion and money laundering public.

International initiatives

Battling tax evasion

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by Nico Beckert
Protest in London in August against British mining companies that are accused, among other things, of evading taxes in Africa.

Commodities

Missing billions

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by Nico Beckert
More money for Barron, Eric, Tiffany and Ivanka Trump.

Bad governance

Democratic procedures serve a purpose

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by Hans Dembowski
The results of a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa in early December.

Civil strife

Shifting alliances

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by Maysam Behravesh

Food security

Pest exacerbates poverty

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by Humphrey Nkonde
The mining industry is Mongolia’s most important income source – and the experience with double taxation agreements has not been good.

Government revenues

Undermining statehood

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by Dereje Alemayehu
The informal sector is difficult to tax: selling potatoes in Arusha.

Domestic resource mobilisation

Double standards

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by Dereje Alemayehu
Stroms are getting worse: typhoon-caused flooding in Hoi An, Vietnam, in November.

Global warming

The case against fossil fuels

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by Shikha Jha