The impacts of chemical pollution indicate the sounding of yet another alarm bell, reminding us that we cannot simply develop now and clean up later. Learn about what can be done to improve the…

Richard Damania, Ernesto Sanchez-Triana, Johannes Heister |

SDG 11 aims to make cities and communities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Cities today face the challenge of rising waste – particularly in the use of plastics – as populations grow…

Divyanshi Wadhwa |

Economic policies over past years and decades have had negative impacts on living standards, the private sector and the environment, driving a deep crisis that is hitting ordinary Pakistanis…

Tobias Haque |

Citizen science, which is public participation in the production of knowledge, offers endless opportunities for researchers as well as for citizens and policymakers, from real-time and rapid data…

Dilek Fraisl, Omar Seidu |

Summer of 2023 was marked by an early start to the wildfire season in Lebanon as intense forest fires ravaged several parts of the country, with fires erupting including in the Akkar and North…

Andrea Kutter |

Droughts are the most deadly and costly natural disaster for most of the 16 Member States of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). Since 2018, the region has experienced protracted…

Nate Engle |

The conditions and circumstances of people across the world cannot be boiled down to only national averages. Within the same country, economic development can be unbalanced, with some regions…

Judy Yang, Minh Cong Nguyen, Carlos Sabatino |

Smaller preferential trade agreements, or PTAs, has been a promising development towards bolstering international trade. Most new PTAs also include non-trade provisions that delve into other…

Nadia Rocha, Ana Fernandes |

Since we can’t have a world without poverty in a world with dirty air, there are three key considerations we can’t forget.

Valerie Hickey |

Clean Air for Nepal
Air Pollution in Nepal
Air Quality in Nepal

Faris Hadad-Zervos, Dina Umali-Deininger |