Afforestation is one way to offset greenhouse gas emissions. Yet it is not always easy to navigate the different types of projects or methods available, and the possibility of greenwashing is ever-present.
(Shutterstock)
Offsetting greenhouse gas emissions can be an effective tool for limiting global warming. But many offset projects fail to meet their GHG reduction targets.
Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, is home to over 17 million people.
Zute Lightfoot / Alamy Stock Photo
Charity advertising often reinforces historical stereotypes of underdevelopment that equate Africa with poverty.
Xi Jinping shakes hands with Chinese construction workers at a Belt and Road Initiative site in Trinidad and Tobago in June 2023.
Frederic Dubray/AFP via Getty Images
Richard Carney, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
More autocratic governments, growing urbanization and emerging technologies will bolster the spread of Chinese influence around the world, an expert on emerging economies explains.
Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, CEO of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company, will be leading the COP28 United Nations climate conference.
Francois Walschaerts/AFP via Getty Images
This week’s summit for a “New Global Financing Pact” will look to secure some much-needed climate cash for developing countries, while ensuring their debt remains manageable.
China and the U.S. compete to be the world’s largest economy, but the dollar dominates the yuan as a currency.
peng song/Moment Collection/Getty Images
Despite China’s economic power, the yuan lags as a major global currency. Here’s why current US interest rates and sanctions on Russia may change that.
Used cars that get exported from places like Europe, Japan and the U.S. are most often shipped to countries in Africa where they are resold.
Yanick Folly/Getty Images
Older imported cars pose risks to motorists and spew pollution. Some countries, including Ghana, are taking steps to limit the harms of this piece of the vehicle life cycle.
It’s a crucial time for the World Bank, with growing calls for reform and sky-high expectations of what one leader needs to do. A former World Bank official explains the challenges ahead.
Welfare services are essential for a healthy economy and productive population.
(Shutterstock)
Many developing nations have little cold storage and lose much of their perishable food before it gets to markets. Climate-friendly refrigeration can provide huge environmental and social benefits.
Workers install solar panels for a floating photovoltaic solar plant in Germany in April 2022.
Photo by Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images
Thomas Burelli, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Alexandre Lillo, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Alycia Leonard, University of Oxford; Elie Klee, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Erin Dobbelsteyn, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Justine Bouquier, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Lauren Touchant, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The historic agreement on a loss and damage fund was overshadowed by lack of progress on phasing out fossil fuels.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry closes COP27 in the early hours of Nov. 19, 2022.
Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images
It’s a landmark agreement, acknowledging for the first time that wealthy countries bear some responsibility to help. But it leaves many unanswered questions.
Infectious diseases like COVID-19 top the list of health concerns.
Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images
The human population has doubled in 48 years, and worsening climate change has left the world facing serious health risks, from infectious diseases to hunger and heat stress.
Extreme flooding in Pakistan in 2022 affected 33 million people.
Akram Shahid/AFP via Getty Images