Sustainable Development
Clean energy investment could create 10 million green jobs
A recent EY report found 13,000 projects in the renewable energy sector could help develop 10 million jobs in 50 countries around the world.
Megan Rowling
Megan Rowling is a journalist for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, covering the latest developments in humanitarian crises, aid, climate change, governance and women’s rights. She specialises in the impacts of climate change on developing countries, and solutions to this growing problem, including disaster risk reduction and climate finance.
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Governance for Sustainability
How much will it cost to save nature - and who will pay?
New efforts are needed to safeguard biodiversity and conserve ecosystems. The true cost could be more than $700 billion a year - and funding is lacking.
Climate Breakthroughs 2021
Climate change: What is 'net zero' and why does it matter?
To reach net zero by 2050 and tackle climate change, the world's energy sector needs to follow this roadmap from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Africa
How data is the key to Africa's EV evolution
More data is needed on Africa's privately run mass transport systems to encourage investment in EVs from financial institutions and development banks.
Future of Economic Progress
From ocean taxes to family planning, review flags ways to protect nature
A major report, commissioned by the UK government, looks at how humans can stop overusing the goods and services provided for free by the natural world.
Climate Change
Storm damage worsens in a warming world, hiking pressure to adapt
A climate risk index warns that vulnerable countries are being hit harder by powerful storms, as leaders gather at a summit to push greater adaptation efforts.
Climate Change
3,000 scientists call for governments and businesses to 'step up' adaptation to climate change
Governments and businesses must invest far more to protect people and nature from worsening impacts of global warming, say over 3,000 scientists from around the world
Environment and Natural Resource Security
The coalition to protect 30% of the planet by 2030 now has 50 countries signed up
The High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People was launched last year and aims to protect the Earth's natural systems, plants and animals.
Climate Change
U.N. chief calls for more climate finance for poor nations as 2020 goal slips
In 2009, wealthy governments agreed to increase climate finance for vulnerable countries to $100 billion annually by 2020, however, this figure has yet to be met.
Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Despite the pandemic subverting progress, we can still meet the Global Goals - Here's how
COVID-19 has left a $4 trillion shortfall in funding needed for developing nations to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, but OECD chief Angel Gurría believes we can still mee...
Climate Change
'Net-zero' emissions: What is it and why does it matter so much?
Countries, cities and businesses are aiming for 'net-zero' emissions - where any human-produced carbon dioxide or other climate-changing emissions are removed from the atmosphere.
Climate Change
Why climate change increases gender inequality
A new report by CARE International shows that women are far more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than men, exacerbating gender inequality.
COVID-19
COVID-19: How past crises are helping the world's cities to respond and rebuild
City officials are harnessing networks and tools devised for responding to better-known risks, like climate change emergencies, to tackle coronavirus.
COVID-19
Pandemic may reverse human development for first time in 30 years, UN says
The United Nations has warned that human development could be reversed for the first time since 1990, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19
UN aid chief on coronavirus: 'No one is safe until everyone is safe'
The UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator explains how the coronavirus pandemic may affect developing nations, as the UN announces a $2 billion dollar aid plan.