Development

Un número creciente de países y autoridades locales están prohibiendo los plásticos de un solo uso. Esto es loable: ya que los plásticos obstruyen los desagües causando inundaciones, contaminan la naturaleza y matan animales y aves.

This year, the world will spend $US162 billion ($230bn) subsidising renewable energy, propping up inefficient industries and supporting middle-class homeowners to erect solar panels, according to the International Energy Agency. In addition, the Paris Agreement on climate change will cost the world from $US1 trillion to $US2 trillion a year by 2030. Astonishingly, neither of these hugely expensive policies will have any measurable impact on temperatures by the end of the century.

t’s easy to think of starvation as a challenge that entered the rich world’s consciousness in the 1980s and was largely solved through charity rock concerts. True, the world has made huge progress in combating mass starvation over the past 30 years, largely as a result of improved agricultural practices. Yet, globally, food deprivation still claims a child’s life every three seconds.

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme is one of the world’s largest programmes for early childhood care and development. Now, a new study suggests that nutrition and health counselling delivered under the programme’s auspices is one of the best possible investments that can be made by any government.

Dieses Jahr werden nach Angaben der Internationalen Energieagentur weltweit 162 Milliarden Dollar in erneuerbare Energien gesteckt. Es werden also ineffiziente Industrien subventioniert und private Hauseigentümer finanziell gefördert, damit sie Solaranlagen installieren. Darüber hinaus wird uns das Pariser Klimaabkommen bis 2030 jährlich 1 Billion Dollar oder mehr kosten.

Un'ondata di caldo estremo si è abbattuta sull'Europa e si prepara a mietere vittime. Come accaduto di recente in India, le temperature estreme vengono strumentalizzate al fine di richiedere politiche ambientali più incisive.

Transparency, fair competition and accountability are three defining features of an efficient public procurement system. Until 2011, the Bangladesh procurement process was paper-based and plagued by corruption and malpractices. Short bidding periods, nondisclosure of the selection criteria, pre-tender negotiation with bidders were some of the defining features of guiding Bangladesh’s public procurement activities.

Increasing access to justice at the grassroot level can directly protect human rights of the rural poor. It is estimated that nearly 4 billion poor around the world cannot access the protection of the law and justice system.

A study by the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) and BRAC Human Rights and Legal Aid Services found that on average, 31 million people, mostly belonging to rural areas, experience legal problems every year.

Extremvärmen har drabbat Europa och tragiskt nog kostat människoliv, något som nu blivit ett argument för mer kraftfull klimatpolitik. Tyvärr är det fel väg att gå – och det kan leda till fler dödsfall totalt sett.

Czy zauważyliście jak w ciągu ostatnich dziesięciu lat po cichu przestaliśmy mieć burze i zaczęliśmy mieć ”skrajne wydarzenia pogodowe”? Wydaje się, że żaden spadek temperatury lub sezonowa ulewa nie są zbyt małe, by media nadały im przerażające nazwy i wydawały ostrzeżenia minuta za minutą. Obecnie niektóre media i bojownicy kampanii próbują zrobić dokładnie to samo dla zmiany klimatu.