Achim Steiner: shale gas rush 'a liability' in efforts slow climate change
Suzanne Goldenberg in Half Moon Bay, California
UN's top environmental official says switch from coal to natural gas is delaying critical energy transition to renewables
Suzanne Goldenberg in Half Moon Bay, California
UN's top environmental official says switch from coal to natural gas is delaying critical energy transition to renewables
The B Team
As the World Economic forum kicks off, business leaders are calling for companies to respond to the 'planetary emergency'
Mark Tran
Almost twice as many obese people in poor countries than in rich ones as fat and sugar consumption rises, warns ODI
Terra Lawson-Remer
How should the status and progress of a country or people be measured and judged?
John Helliwell, richard layard and Jeffrey sachs
BBC News
Nearly 30 million people around the world are living as slaves, according to a new index ranking 162 countries.
The Global Slavery Index 2013 says India has the highest number of people living in conditions of slavery at 14 million.
KATE KELLAND
Health disparities between rich and poor nations could be banished in a generation by investment in research, vaccines and drugs to combat diseases such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, global health experts said on Tuesday.
Astrid Zweynert, Nov 19, 2013
Access to improved sanitation can increase cognition in children, according to a new World Bank study, the latest research to link stunting and open defecation.
More than 2.5 billion people worldwide lack access to toilets, and one billion people practice open defecation.
Arthur Neslen Sep 18 2013
An architect of the UN’s Millennium development Goals (MDGs) says he fears that a lack of strong leadership at the UN could lead to its poverty eradication goals being replaced by an over-politicised and unachievable “wish list” after 2015.
This helps raise awareness and further develop an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system This could bring together mutual migration laws which is needed because issues like 'human trafficking feeds on poverty and creates greater restrictions to legal immigration.' Better border control like a well-paced migration from poorer to richer countries; example: Germany: special visa for IT workers.