GLOBAL
CLIMATE CHANGE - Efforts to implement the Kyoto Treatys Clean Development Mechanism are being hobbled by a lack of transparency and governance, British researchers say in a report. The CDM is a...

GLOBAL
UNITED NATIONS - The Green Climate Fund will be nothing but an "empty shell" if rich countries dont follow through with their pledges last year to raise $100 billion annually from 2020 to help ...

AFRICA
D.R.C. - Access to basic education in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains poor, with up to seven million children across the vast country out of school - despite a 2010 government de...

GLOBAL
CLIMATE CHANGE - Private-sector entities employing low-carbon business strategies can help governments develop national climate-change battle plans, says Christiana Figueres, head of the United...

GLOBAL
FOOD - Scientists say that global food security, already under threat by speculation in commodities markets, likely will be further destabilized by plant pests and diseases that devastate crop ...