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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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The Canadian-based company Vermilion produces oil in Andrezel, south-east of Paris.

International law

Companies sue states for ­ climate-protection measures

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by Linda Engel
Protest at a time of pandemic: demonstrators in Chicago on 30 May. Before dying in police custody in Minneapolis, George Floyd had said “I can't breathe”, but the officer holding him down did not remove his knee from his neck.

Power vacuum in international affairs

No meaningful global leadership

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by Hans Dembowski
We'd love to spend our time on something else than fetching water.

UN prognosis

The climate crisis is ­­exacerbating water stress

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by Sarah Josef
Water kiosks like here in Tanzania offer an important interim solution for supplying the poor population without access to piped water.

International cooperation

Averting “Day Zero”

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by Daniel Nordmann
by Helmut Lang
by Katrin Gronemeier
Lots of pigeons, no tourists: Kathmandu’s Basantapur Durbar Square, a UNESCO world heritage site in mid-May.

Hard-hit country

Resilience tested once again

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by Jonathan Menge
Lining up to get water in Chennai in the summer of 2019.

Water crisis

Vital resource

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Waterfalls in Chile’s Queulat National Park: when glaciers are diminished, entire water-catchment basins feel the impacts downstream.

Water crisis

Parched and privatised

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by Katie Cashman
Not much space for social distancing: favela residents waiting for food supplied by a non-governmental activist.

Marginalised communities

Spreading dangerously

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by Thuany Rodrigues
A woman in Harare, Zimbawe’s capital city, bringing home water.

Household chore

Gender injustice

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by Sudeh Dehnavi
Duflo and Banerjee in Stockholm in 2019.

Economics

Count in human beings

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by Hans Dembowski