World EV Day 2023: Why electric mobility in Nigeria is an opportunity to leapfrog in the Global South

Electric mobility is an opportunity for Africa to sidestep polluting internal combustion engines and leapfrog to eliminate toxic exposures and …

Russia-Africa summit: Putin offers unconvincing giveaways in a desperate bid to make up for killing the Ukraine grain deal

Russia’s efforts to woo African leaders are part of the Kremlin’s broader efforts to extend its influence across the global south

Developing economies risk exclusion as ‘age of AI’ dawns

Artificial intelligence is set to be a multi-trillion dollar industry by 2030, but developing economies risk falling behind unless changes are …

8 billion people: why trying to control the population is often futile – and harmful

Rather than trying to increase or decrease the number of people, we must build a planet that enables everyone to live their lives freely, …

How the pandemic is hurting university students’ mental health

Institutions of higher education worldwide are undergoing unprecedented change because of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. …

EU follows US by boosting its domestic green industry support, outcome for Global South uncertain

Emerging economies will be nervous about the competitiveness of their manufacturing sectors if this reshoring of clean technologies expands

Tax super rich to pay Global South for climate damages: Open letter to world leaders by economists ahead of Paris talks

Just a 2 per cent tax on extreme wealth can raise $2.5 trillion a year which can be diverted to loss & damage fund

How droughts can leave people with nowhere to go

Those most affected by climate-induced droughts risk being trapped due to a lack of resources and networks to migrate  

‘Indian and African leaders must not fail to protect interests of locals at upcoming WTO meet’

Civil society members have expressed deep concern about how talks in previous such meets have failed developing countries

Current policy developments to contain AMR not enough: South Centre expert

Viviana Munoz Tellez, coordinator, South Centre, spoke on the gaps and challenges in the ongoing policy interventions to contain …

Scrolling into stress: How climate fears hit youth

Our young people are getting a dose of social media-driven eco-anxiety over the environment. There are ways we can help them beat it.  

Global South water-sensitive cities: Focus should be inequity in access, functionality and reusability

Cities of Global South cannot copy-paste frameworks and solutions emerging from the Global North

Least Developed Countries want major emitters, G20 to increase climate efforts

The bottom of the economic pyramid is keen for progress on climate finance, loss and damage, global adaptation goal

Biden‘s climate leadership summit: What should 3 PMs from South Asia do

The South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis has issued this demand-statement for the three south Asian prime ministers who have been …

Climate finance is not going to Global South where it is needed the most: CSE

Report launched right before the international summit on New Global Financial Pact in Paris  

India should receive $57 trillion in compensation from Global North for climate damages: Study 

US should provide a cumulative compensation of $80 trillion, the European Union and the United Kingdom owe $46 trillion & remaining …

Paris finance meet: Momentum builds for polluter taxes to fund green transition

Panellists discuss shipping and airline levies, financial transaction taxes and fossil fuel taxes at Pact Summit

Global South water-sensitive cities: Framing the discourse

Simply copy-pasting the concepts from the Global North will lead to sub-optimal solutions 

Unfair fields: Asymmetric WTO rules let US inflate cotton subsidies must be reformed

Cottton farmers in India and other Global South countries, like the Afican C-4 of benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, at peril …

Botswana elephants episode: There’s a colonial underpinning to conservation

Conservation should indeed be a global priority. But understanding of the complexity and colonial roots of this problem and the shocking double …

Paris finance meet: Key takeaways from a summit that showed the scale of the challenge ahead

The summit did not precipitate any transformational solutions, but it started a conversation on the climate and development financing crisis, and …

NASA maps trace causes of global mangrove habitat loss

While overall mangrove habitat loss declined between 2000 and 2016, losses from natural causes such as erosion and extreme weather …

Paris finance meet: What is the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact about?

Discussions on how to reform Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) to better serve the needs of the Global South will be in spotlight

Debt of emerging markets & developing economies rose by 178% from 2008-2022: Report

The Global South is staring at a debt crisis, but the “Common Framework” created to provide debt relief has serious shortcomings

Win against waste colonialism: US group pledges restorative action after taking back ‘harmful’ report

A 2015 report by US-based Ocean Conservancy blamed 5 Asian countries for plastic waste