HOW we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s ...

Climate week in New York City, a partnership with the United Nations General Assembly, wraps up this weekend. Climate experts, diplomats and business leaders are gathering to discuss strategies to ...

On Friday, 17 October 2025, the UN Development Programme released the 2025 edition of its Multidimensional Poverty Index ...

As world leaders come to Brazil for climate talks, people like Cassiano are the ones with the most at stake. Poor communities are often more vulnerable to hazards like extreme heat and supersized ...

Industry group Energy Transfer has gone on offense in a series of ads highlighting the critical importance of fossil fuels in everyday life. It’s about time the industry stopped playing defense. The ...

Although it has lifted more than 415 million people out of multidimensional poverty between 2005-2006 and 2019-2021, climate stress threatens to reverse this progress. Nearly half the population ...

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) Executive Chair Euisun Chung, today delivered a keynote speech at the 2022 B20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia on the theme ...

Aisha Bulyar spends a whole day searching for water in Korr, Marsabit as the ravages of climate change in northern Kenya escalate. [Peter Muiruri, Standard] The world's development institutions are ...

Extreme weather events expose systemic gaps in emergency planning. Sarah Norris’s doctoral work examines how policies fail — ...