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Universities can serve as “living labs” where investment in innovative energy solutions can be upscaled and tested in cooperation with industry.
Scaling innovative green…
The protest group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has released a statement with the clickbait headline “We Quit”. Dashing the hopes of climate denialists everywhere, the group is not…
Rory McCarthy argues that religion still shapes politics even at a time of Islamist setbacks in North Africa.
After a decade in government, Islamist parties in Tunisia and Morocco…
Hugo Slim argues that humanitarians cannot compromise with the Taliban's extreme misogyny.
Once again, humanitarians are bogged down in a moral predicament in Afghanistan. The…
This article is part of Africa@LSE's “Through your eyes“ series, which gives young and emerging African writers a platform to share their lived experiences of key political events…
Robert H. Wade updates a previous opinion piece on the causes and possible direction of the conflict in Ukraine in light of recent developments.
On 26 March President Biden,…
Southwood, R. (2022) Africa 2.0: Inside a Continent’s Communications Revolution. Manchester University Press. ISBN: 978-1-5261-5482-8
Been catching up with my reading backlog over…
Representatives met two weeks ago for the 2022 Effective Development Cooperation Summit. The event reveals the limitations of multistakeholderism and the need for a more…
At COP15, 196 countries reached an agreement for new global goals and targets, which - if met - can reverse or halt biodiversity loss by 2030. Implementation starts now.
In the…
Emma Workman discusses the tension between environmental goals and economic goals, alongside the need for conservation economies in the context of the Convention of Biological…