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“If an economy cannot cope with external shocks like a series of extreme-weather events, it is not stable”: flooding in Pakistan in 2022.

Global governance

What is wrong with WTO and IMF?

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by Iwan J. Azis
by Hans Dembowski
Digitised voter accreditation in Anambra State on 25 February.

Democracy

High tech failed to make Nigeria’s presidential election transparent

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by Adaze Okeaya-inneh
Successful activism: protestors from the Dongria Kondh community arriving at a rally against bauxite mining in the Indian state of Odisha in 2018.

Environmental law

Humankind needs more stringent environmental regulations

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee
Due to oil-extraction pollution, some places are dangerously contaminated in the Niger Delta.

Empowerment

Women take on environmentally destructive ‘development’ projects

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by Connie Nagiah
by Margaret Mapondera
In the summer of 2021, the German river Ahr burst its banks in many places and swept away entire villages. More than 130 people died.

Disaster control

How to manage global risks effectively

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee
Golomoti is the first commercially operated solar-power plant in Malawi. It is a public-private partnership between Canadian independent power producer JCM Power, investment company InfraCo Africa, the Malawian government and the state-owned Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi.

Impact investing

SDG financing: how billions become trillions

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by Bruno Wenn
Indigenous people fight for the protection of their land and the environment in the Philippines.

Indigenous peoples

Fighting “green colonialism”

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by Joan Carling
by Maren van Treel
Young people’s outlook is darkening: dead livestock is a daily visible impact of the climate crisis in Kenya.

Kenya

How Kenya is affected by climate injustice

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by Abigael Kima
Three participants in the Girls With Tools programme.

Working life

Vocational education for girls in Uganda

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
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