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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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Plastic bottles are turned into paving stones: these stones are a mixture of PET plastic and sand.

Value chains

Promoting the recycling economy

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by Jochen Moninger
by Raphael Thurn-Valsassina
Kathmandu’s rivers are affected badly.

Waste management

Living amidst filth

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by Roshan Sharma
Plastic bottles sorted for recycling in Essen, Germany.

Waste management

Part of a system

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by Roshan Sharma
Labour migrants on their way to the stadium building site in 2012

Winter Olympics

Troubled legacy

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by Jane Buchanan
Local waste pickers collect plastic waste in Mumbai, which will then be recycled.

Recycling

A system for collecting waste

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by Oliver Möllenstädt
Jin Liqun, AIIB president, with his ADB counterpart, Takehiko Nakao.

Asia

Multilateral banks honeymoon

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by Hans Dembowski
In front of the ADB headquarters, Greenpeace protesters expressed discontent with funding for coal-based power infrastructure in 2012.

Social and environmental standards

Let’s race to the top

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by Hans Dembowski
Supporters of the opposition Democratic Alliance party march toward the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg demanding the resignation of President Jacob Zuma on 15 April.

Comment

Robbed of a role model

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by Jennifer Dube
Maize harvest in Ethiopia.

Human security

Transatlantic cooperation

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

ADB and AIIB share interest in infrastructure

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by Hans Dembowski