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From fossil fuel chiefs to an outspoken UN secretary general, a look at who will attend the UAE’s climate summit

Young people in Africa have called on developed countries to double the funding for climate change adaptation in Africa.

According to a recent World Bank report, more than 40 percent of children under the age of five in Pakistan suffer from stunted growth. The situation is especially worrying for some villages in Sindh province, where 66 percent of under-fives are affected. Stunting is closely linked to brain development and…

Exclusive: Fields run by climate summit host have burned gas near daily despite 20-year-old pledge, satellite monitoring reveals

Plastic pollution is an urgent environmental issue, globally. Every year, about eight million tonnes of plastic end up in the oceans.

To what extent does private investment help developing countries to reduce conflict and violence and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?

Chief Secretary-led high-level steering committee formed for World Bank-aided KERA project in agriculture sector

The World Bank issued a statement on 8 August 2023, announcing that it had effectively suspended all new public financing to Uganda over concerns with the country’s anti-homosexuality law, which “fundamentally contradicts the World Bank Group’s values”.

Tense negotiations at the final meeting on a climate-related loss and damages fund — an international fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet — ended Saturday in Abu Dhabi, with participants agreeing that the World Bank would temporarily oversee the fund for the next four years

World leaders will reconvene in Abu Dhabi before UAE’s Cop28 after talks broke down two weeks ago

Last year, the CEO of financial technology (fintech) company Revolut added a UK banking license to his 2022 Christmas wish list, telling startup news outlet Sifted: “I would love to have it as a Christmas present. A present for me personally and for the business.”