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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

Solar energy despite clouds, and days off during menstruation

The two pieces of good news this month are about harnessing solar energy even on cloudy days and additional two paid days off for female employees experiencing menstrual pain.

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Hurricane Maria

Puerto Rico’s double power failure

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by Hans Dembowski
The DBL Group uses cutting-edge technology and meets high occupational safety and environmental standards at its dyeing facility in Dhaka.

Development Effectiveness Rating

Measuring how good a job is

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by Christiane Rudolph
Fishermen in the Philippines receive government loans for climate-change adaptation projects.

Green Climate Fund

Signalling effect for global climate finance

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by Liane Schalatek
Flooding in Houston: will decentralised action suffice where national governments deny climate change?

Relevant reading

Great disenchantment

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by Hans-Jochen Luhmann
Worker harvesting palm fruit.

Labour rights

Unachievable targets

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by Edith Koesoemawiria
“If humankind keeps using concrete, steel and aluminium at the current rate to build cities, we will be unable to keep global warming below two degrees”: construction site in Kolkata.

Infrastructure

“We need to build shock resilience”

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by Dirk Messner
Retail poultry shop in Kolkata.

Labour relations

Nightmarish conditions

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Houses and rice fields in a flooded area, Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

Climate change

Devastating consequences

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Occupational safety is not a priority in Indian construction work.

Decent work

Misleading dichotomy

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak

A bad situation turned worse

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by Katja Dombrowski