Countries aim to achieve UN SDGs but struggle due to lack of focus. Malawi prioritizes tablets for learning, India uses class shuffling, an...

Japan had 6-in-10 children undernourished in 1900. It reached very low levels by 2000. China achieved massive drops in malnutrition in the ...

'Heat-related deaths in India are up 55% because of climate change' was a headline reported by various media outlets last week. While this ...

Swift growth places huge pressure on infrastructure. A report says Indian cities get water supply from 1-6 hours and that only 21% of its w...

OECD has analysed 70% of total global development aid and found that about one in four of those dollars now goes to climate-related aid.

"The truth is we're not going to be able to do this. If we're not going to fix everything, first look at where can we do the most good."

In South-east Asia, over 18% food is wasted. If we could halve the South and South=east Asian waste, we could feed an extra 234 million peo...

Extreme poverty – by current reckoning, living on less than $1.25 a day – is a continuing problem for far too many people today.

Worldwide, almost 3 bn people still don’t have access to modern energy, instead they use firewood, dung and crop waste for cooking and heat...

As it turns out, tackling nutrition is the most cost-effective solution around, because it has massive benefits for a tiny price tag.

If you’re Samson Banda from Zaire, having been sick from malaria for six months and faced with appalling healthcare, your priority is healt...

The first challenge Copenhagen faces in reaching its zero emissions goal is the lack of cost-effective alternatives for some sources of CO2...

Freer trade will allow more people to escape poverty and secure sufficient food and clean water.

Rio+20 is not about climate change alone; it is a revisiting of the 1992 first Earth Summit to reassess priorities and formulate action to ...

Major landmarks plunged into darkness on Saturday as a symbolic energy-saving exercise unfolded across the globe, calling for action on cli...

One of the stranger spectacles of climate change debate was the sight of NASA climate scientist marching with actress Darryl Hannah in Wash...

The Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) is receiving research reports which will help it rank grave world problems.