The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
BONN, Germany: India has questioned rich nations about their ongoing climate actions, asking how would the developed countries ensure trust in the process (and their commitment under Paris Agreement) if they themselves don't follow the previous decisions (under the Kyoto Protocol) to reduce their carbon emissions. The question was raised …
DAKAR, Nov 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A bacterial infection passed from mothers to babies kills around 150,000 unborn children and infants a year but has been widely overlooked in developing countries, researchers said on Monday as they urged faster progress on developing a vaccine. Nearly one in five pregnant …
Over a third of the carbon mitigation needed annually to keep global temperature rise below 2°C could be met by reforestation and reducing global deforestation. Expectations for the concept of REDD+, which aims to incentivise developing countries to keep forests standing, were initially very high. However, the mechanics of implementing …
The latest round of UN led climate talks have opened in Bonn with delegates from almost 200 countries in attendance. Over the next two weeks, negotiators hope to clarify the rulebook of the Paris climate agreement. It is the first major meeting since President Trump announced plans to take the …
Climate finance, while efficient in sectors such as renewable energy, is not effective in protecting increasingly threatened forests or the rights of their inhabitants, a new report shows. “It’s just so much easier to put money into wind farms,” Charlotte Streck, director of the advisory company Climate Focus, says during …
Climate change is already damaging the health of millions of people around the world, with the outlook only set to worsen if action is not taken. That's according to a new report produced by an international collaboration of 26 leading organisations. While the health of all populations will be affected, …
Renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in developing countries can go a long way to making up shortfalls in Paris climate pledges, while delivering huge human health and economic benefits, according to a new report by the 1 Gigaton Coalition. Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries: Contributions to …
This landmark study published in Lancer finds that toxic air, water, soils and workplaces kill at least 9 millon people and cost trillions of dollars every year. Pollution kills more people in India than anywhere else in the world revealed the study. Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease …
A new and detailed analysis from the International Energy Agency finds that the most cost-effective strategy for providing universal access to electricity and clean-cooking facilities in developing countries is compatible with meeting global climate goals, and prevents millions of premature deaths each year. It would also benefit women the most, …
The 2017 volume of the Development Co-operation Report focuses on Data for Development. “Big Data” and “the Internet of Things” are more than buzzwords: the data revolution is transforming the way that economies and societies are functioning across the planet. The Sustainable Development Goals along with the data revolution are …
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) may launch an insurance mechanism aimed at lowering the risks associated for solar power in December. “There could be insurance for risks and to bring down the cost of capital,” Upendra Tripathy, Interim Director General of ISA, told BusinessLine. “We are exploring whether this can …
A Network of partnerships established to look into and find solutions to air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa has received a £2 million funding. According to a press release from the University of Portsmouth copied to ghanabusinessnews.com, the AIR Network has received over £2 million to bring together arts and humanities …
Companies and consumers must step up their efforts to overhaul the world's food systems at a time when the twin spectres of hunger and obesity are both on the rise, FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva told delegates at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). Some 815 million people …
Little is known about the role that foreign aid can play in dampening the effects of climate change. This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of climatic shocks on food security in developing countries. Because foreign aid is an important source of revenue for developing …
In last 10 years, 4,000 people and more than 42,000 cattle have died due to the floods in Bihar, says deputy CM Bihar government has allocated Rs 68,500 crore for climate change sensitive departments in the current fiscal. The state government said that the money spent would protect its people …
Internationally subsidised agricultural insurance is intended to protect farmers in developing countries from the effects of climate change. However, it can also lead to undesirable ecological and social side effects, as UFZ researchers and their US colleagues at the University of Oregon have explained in a review article in the …
Finance for electrification of developing countries is flowing at less than half the rate needed to achieve the global goal of universal access by 2030. That was the conclusion of analysis by Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) launched on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York on …
The 2017 Climate Change Performance Index ranked Morocco among the top ten most climatically conscious countries, and number one in the developing world. The Climate Change Performance Index, published annually by Germanwatch and Climate Action Network Europe, evaluates and compares the climate protection performance of 58 countries based on criteria …
NEW DELHI: An international report on how energy-poor cities can be powered while containing polluting has cited Delhi's net-metering policy for solar rooftop systems as a probable solution for providing cheap electricity. The World Resources Institute's report, titled "Powering Cities in the Global South", was released on Wednesday. The report …
