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In what’s likely to be the hottest year on record, nations are gathering to try and hash out faster action on climate change. Here are the three main issues facing negotiators.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres says rules around corporate emissions reporting are “wide enough to drive a diesel truck through”.
Russia’s decision to pull out of the life-saving grain deal has already caused a spike in the global price of wheat and corn.
Recent clashes put eastern Congo’s M23 into the headlines again, but many other security problems persist in the area as diplomats struggle to tackle the underlying causes.
International laws are in place to prevent war and help protect civilians and combatants alike. But these laws are challenging to enforce and are unlikely to stop the unfolding Russia-Ukraine war.
The number of personnel deployed in UN peacekeeping has slowly been decreasing.
President Trump has confirmed that the US will leave the Paris Agreement on climate change on the earliest allowable date: Nov. 4, 2020. Will this hobble efforts to slow global warming?
From 3D printing using plastic waste to growing cherry trees in the Himalayas, young people are not sitting idle while the world burns.
The Eritrean ports of Massawa and Assab will hum with life once more as trade flows through them.
Few believed they would see an end to two decades of hostility between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor of Practice in Climate Policy, University of Oxford
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Research Director of the Insecure Livelihoods Project, Ghent University
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Lecturer, Curtin University
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PhD Candidate and Research Assistant, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Chercheure-associée au Centre Thucydide, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
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Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Emeritus Professor, Curtin University
