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Environmental protection

Cleaning up Mexico’s water bodies

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by Pamela Cruz
Pamela Cruz
“A reform of the UN Security Council is necessary, but hard to achieve.”

Global governance

“Democratic states do not wage war on one another”

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by Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
by Hans Dembowski
Drought in Kenya, March 2022.

Climate-risk insurance

Promising examples of climate-risk insurance schemes

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by Renate Bleich
by Dirk Reinhard
by Christian Barthelt
Unplanned settlements are displacing informal vegetable growers in Abidjan.

Africa

Informal farming in the city

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by Irit Ittner
This satellite image shows a collapsed ice shelf the size of New York City in East Antarctica in March 2022. The area had long been believed to be stable.

Relevant reading

Climate hazards are increasing fast

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Bangladesh’s coastal areas have an extensive network of cyclone shelters.

Disaster preparedness

Boosting disaster preparedness in the Ganges Delta

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by Md Bodrud-Doza
Beneficiaries of India’s MGNREGA, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

Social protection

How social-protection systems matter in the climate crisis

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by Stefan Beierl
The platform Amitruck links truck drivers and their vehicles with customers

Amitruck

Uber for trucks

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Oven production at PowerStove in Nigeria.

Financing

“We consider impact with every investment”

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by Thomas Festerling
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
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