This Week in Global Dev: #27: An update from COP 28 and renewable energy in the developing world
This week we traveled to Dubai to follow the discussions at COP 28, the U.N. climate summit, and to find out what the outcomes of the negotiations could mean for the global development sector. The f...
7 Dec 202328min
Climate +: #6: What our fossil fuel addiction means for human health
This year’s U.N. Climate Conference has already been a historic one in the nearly 30-year timespan of the COP process because it’s the first time there’s been a day dedicated to the linkages between c...
6 Dec 202331min
Climate +: #5: Climate activism has tried facts. Now it needs hearts and minds
The United Nations Climate Change Conference known as COP is an imperfect forum for achieving progress on climate change. The discourse that unfolds there is dominated by the global north. Any action ...
3 Dec 202326min
This Week in Global Dev: #26: Looking ahead to COP 28
The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 28, kicked off this Thursday. As with the summits in previous years, we arrive with the usual set of questions: Will pledges be met? Are the b...
30 Nov 202339min
Climate +: #4: How the agricultural sector can adapt to climate change
There was a time when world leaders and climate activists mostly spoke about climate change within the framework of mitigating its impacts by taking actions such as reducing fossil fuel consumption an...
29 Nov 202343min
Climate +: #3: Making development finance work in an era of climate emergency
The Bridgetown Initiative, an ambitious set of proposals to overhaul how development finance works spearheaded by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, has been front and center of discussions about cl...
27 Nov 202343min
Climate +: #2: How a climate 'loss and damage' fund can truly deliver on its promise
The decision to establish a loss and damage fund to provide financial assistance to countries affected by climate disasters was hailed as one of the biggest achievements at last year’s climate confere...
22 Nov 202336min
This Week in Global Dev: #25: Views from the ground — from unpaid workers to YouTube influencers
The latest edition of This Week in Development takes both a ground-level and 30,000-foot view of localization and the latest issues in development, ranging from unpaid workers in Nigeria to a YouTube ...
21 Nov 202338min
