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Blair Glencorse and Narayan Adhikari explore the domestic and international roots of Nepal's latest air tragedy, and discuss what can be done to end them.
Here in Kathmandu,…
Yuhan Zhang argues that the world’s largest economies and emitters are unlikely to take climate actions to achieve the 1.5 degree Celsius goal in the coming years.…
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…
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…
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…
This blog was written prior to the closing of COP15. It documents the state of the negotiations in the afternoon of 18 December, 2022 prior to the closing plenary.
At the COP15…
As the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) passed its halfway mark, hope and perseverance prevailed. On Thursday 15 December,…
To protect critical habitats from upstream effects, area-based conservation should proceed at the watershed level, argues Lo Stevenson.
As negotiations draw to a close at the…