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Renewable energy is on the rise.

Good News

Renewable energy and protecting the ocean

The two pieces of good news this month are about the fact that more and more electricity is being generated from renewable energies and a treaty that governs the protection of the high seas.

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Small-scale miners at a riverbed on the outskirts of Harare.

Mining

How Zimbabwe’s gold rush is poisoning water

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by Tsitsi Bhobo
Argentina’s President Javier Milei and US President Donald Trump drill into the world: activists in costumes during COP30.

Right-wing populism

“The Sustainable Development Goals are seen as the enemy”

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by Imme Scholz
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Chile’s President Gabriel Boric, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Helder Barbalho, governor of the Brazilian state of Pará, at the U.N. Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil.

International cooperation

Brazil continues to campaign for climate action and cooperation

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
A farm that was destroyed by a cyclone in southern Malawi.

Food security

Malawi’s increasingly difficult battle against hunger

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by Brenard Mwanza
by Matthias Scharpf
Investments in companies that supply underserved populations with essential goods such as food are a form of impact investing.

Impact investing

How to convince rich people to use their money for good

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by Nico Blaauw
The climate conference in Belém is under pressure to deliver on big promises.

Climate conference

The billion-dollar gap

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by Björn Cremer
The prickly pear cactus can serve as a source of food and water for livestock.

Agriculture

Cactuses as a lifeline for livestock farmers

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by Nyasha J. Kavhiza
Some people are spending great amounts of money and time on saving biodiversity.

Good News

Protecting biodiversity and world heritage sites

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by D+C / E+Z

Water pollution

The lake that once gave life now poisons a city

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by Derick Matsengarwodzi

Small enterprises

How new investments spark hope for Zambia’s small businesses

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by Derrick Silimina