Economy
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Here are 3 steps governments can take to reduce risks of green grabs
What can governments do to mitigate the risks carbon offsets can pose to rights, livelihoods, food security, and ecosystems? In recent years, the pace ... -
How the international financial system exports extinction to the DRC
Biodiversity loss from unequal mining deals is not a glitch. It’s the logical end point of multiple transnational pressures. The Democratic Republic of the ... -
“Patience is running out”: Did Bonn make progress on climate finance?
An expert panel give their verdict on critical climate negotiations at the just-concluded conference in Bonn. A gruelling two weeks of climate negotiations concluded ... -
“Three things we need G7 to do”: An open letter from 49 MPs across Africa
A group of parliamentarians from 20 countries across Africa call for debt forgiveness, financial reform, and climate commitments to be met. Many countries in ... -
“After the dam, nothing is good”: How Ethiopia’s mega project devastated centuries of survival strategies
Until recently, indigenous groups in the Omo Valley planted crops, foraged, hunted, fished, herded animals, and shared food. Now they face starvation. Over thousands ... -
The AfDB at a crossroads: to keep funding fossil fuels or not?
Next week, the African Development Bank should choose transparency, inclusivity, and a green future over continued support for oil and gas. When the board ... -
Tinubu’s Nigeria: A year at the edge of the abyss
University students are among those hit hardest by the Tinubu administration’s IMF-directed austerity programme. Ajadi Sodiq, an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan, receives ... -
$120bn isn’t enough. Here are 3 ideas for a truly bigger better World Bank
Leaders have called for a record replenishment of the Bank’s grants and concessional lending arm. Much bigger changes are needed. When he assumed the ... -
IDA21: Africa’s call to triple finance a chance for the North to rebuild trust
Leaders called on donors to replenish the World Bank’s grants and concessional loans arm with “at least $120 billion” for debt and climate. “The ...
