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Have we reached peak greenhouse gas emissions?

2023 will be the year with the highest emissions ever recorded, according to new projections from the World Emissions Clock. The world is expected to emit almost 59 gigatonnes of carbon-e...

4 positive stories about global development prospects in 2022

Amid a series of setbacks to global development in 2021—pandemics and lockdowns, hunger and conflict, debt crises and inflation—there were also some positive development victories, which ...

What happened to Latin America's 'missing middle'

Once the world’s most prosperous emerging-market region, Latin America is in danger of being overtaken by its peers, owing to its sluggish and unevenly distributed growth. To break that p...

A global tipping point: Half the world is now middle class or wealthier

Something of enormous global significance is happening almost without notice. For the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is ...

Pour des villes intelligentes et inclusives

WASHINGTON, DC/SAN FRANCISCO – Partout dans le monde, on rend les villes "intelligentes" grâce aux bases de données et à la technologie numérique destinées à améliorer l'environnement urb...

Smart cities have an opportunity to become far more inclusive

For urban planners, data and technology are valuable tools in the drive to improve administration and services. But while these innovations are making urban environments more livable, the...

Why the middle class can be a weapon against climate change

“The best things in life are free”, says the old song. When it comes to the global commons – clean air, healthy oceans, conservation of diverse species – this is no longer true. We’ve abu...

We need to reset the global operating system to achieve the SDGs. Here’s how

The political earthquakes of 2016 highlight the shocks that are possible when deep-seated challenges are left unmet for too long. In the absence of reliable, inclusive and long-term progr...

7 projects pointing the way to sustainable development finance