Was World Vision Australia chief advocate Tim Costello right to say that Australia’s foreign aid spending was at its highest under Menzies, at 0.5% of gross national income?
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Scientists from the developing world perceive current visa rules as a major impediment to professional travel. They miss out on opportunities to collaborate globally.
Cultural norms play an important role in determining whether girls will be send to schools.
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Here’s how cultural practices are playing a role in many countries in incentivizing parents to educate their girls.
Face masks like these, modeled by students from the Peltier Aerosol Lab, vary widely in effectiveness against fine particle pollution.
Richard E. Peltier
Inexpensive cloth face masks, worn by many people in heavily polluted countries, offer only partial protection. Instead governments should warn people to avoid exposure and work to clear the air.
The world’s use of finite resources continues to rise as global development continues. Can we help poorer nations raise their standard of living without exhausting all of our raw materials?
Community activities in Kampala, Uganda, organised by SASA!
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Millions of people live without access to electricity. Now it’s a battle between coal and renewables to bring cheap power.
A woman in Burkina Faso collects firewood. Developing nations – and particularly women in these nations – are more vulnerable to climate change, and have less ability to adapt.
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The global economy is already unsustainable – let alone if it gets bigger.
Major development banks are funding logging, mining and infrastructure projects that are having enormous impacts on nature. Here, forests are being razed along a newly constructed road in central Amazonia.
William Laurance
Big new investors such as the Asian Infrastructure Development Bank are key players in a worldwide infrastructure, and that could be bad news for the environment.
So much water has gone into groundwater it has slowed rising seas.
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Much international aid fails to achieve its ends because the technology employed is not “appropriate” to its intended environment or culture. This needs to change.
Countries such as Mauritania have contributed little to climate change, yet face the worst impacts such as crop failure.
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Free Basics may be free to the user, but it’ll cost India’s economy in the long run.
Severe floods in Chennai. How should developing countries hold richer countries to financial commitments to adapt to climate change?
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How to ensure rich countries will live up to their promises of money and carbon emissions cuts? Developing countries need to look to the Allies’ unified strategy in World War II.
Saleemul Huq (left) says the world’s vision should be to help everyone with climate change - even the very poorest.
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A majority of countries want visionary action rather than pragmatism at the Paris climate talks, says the International Institute for Environment and Development’s Saleemul Huq.
Developing countries can expect much better outcomes from the Paris climate change talks compared with Copenhagen six years ago.
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African countries stand a good chance at COP21 of getting their ideas across. There will also be a better opportunity for these countries to access climate finance.