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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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Companies

Oil majors feel the shock

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by Aviva Freudmann
Iraq’s economy depends on oil.

Oil markets

How the mighty have fallen

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by Aviva Freudmann
US soldiers boarding a helicopter in Afghanistan in late 2001.

Afghanistan

Unfinished business

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by Nawid Paigham
Electrical substation in Anantapur, India. Co-financed by KfW, it supplies electricity for the state of Andhra Pradesh.

KfW financing

Investing in better networks

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by Friederike Bauer
by Achim Neumann
A wind farm and a coal-based power plant near Cologne in Germany: prosperous nations must reduce fossil fuel consumption, not only for the sake of Africa.

Wind and solar

The right approach to catching up

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by Jakkie Cilliers
Energy efficiency is the “world’s first fuel”: Energy-efficient residential buildings funded by KfW Development Bank in New Delhi.

Renewables

Networks and storage needed

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by Friederike Bauer
by Achim Neumann
Many informal businesses become unviable in lockdown conditions: tea seller in Cairo in fall 2019.

Universal basic income

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

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by Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe
Without immigration, Italy’s population would have dwindled: Pope Francis visiting a regional migration centre in Bologna in 2017.

UN forecast

55 countries will see their population shrink by 2050

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by Sarah Josef
Workers unload coal from a ship in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka.

Fossil fuel

Bangladesh’s coal boom

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by Nora Sausmikat
by Quirin Jetschke
Protest against a coal plant that Kenya wants to build with funding from China in the port city of Lamu.

Fossil fuel industry

China continues to finance coal power around the world

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by Nora Sausmikat
by Quirin Jetschke