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World Earth Day: Nine ways to keep the planet safe
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World Earth Day: Nine ways to keep the planet safe

Green practices you can adopt to reduce waste, conserve resources, improve air and water quality and protect ecosystems
April 22, 2019
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Why the International Solar Alliance is geopolitically significant
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Why the International Solar Alliance is geopolitically significant
Apologies for yesterday’s crimes: Spain and its Conquistadors
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Apologies for yesterday’s crimes: Spain and its Conquistadors
Sino-US trade war: Why China can’t win it
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Sino-US trade war: Why China can’t win it
Singapore’s journey from a water scarce to a water secure nation
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Singapore’s journey from a water scarce to a water secure nation

Singapore has tapped every opportunity to collect, treat, reuse and produce necessary water resources
March 25, 2019
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On Greta Thunberg and the protesting students
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On Greta Thunberg and the protesting students

Sunita Narain on the lessons from the ongoing #FridaysForFuture demonstrations  
March 20, 2019
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US sound and fury over drug prices
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US sound and fury over drug prices

The US Senate is outraged by the rapacious pricing policy of drug firms but will it act to reform the system?
March 15, 2019
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The wise debate
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The wise debate

As the world debates the effectiveness of industrialised agriculture, the good-old small farmer emerges victorious
March 06, 2019
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Extracting a radioactive disaster in Niger
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Extracting a radioactive disaster in Niger

For 40 years, French firms have been extracting uranium ore in the heart of the Sahara. But instead of benefiting, local communities in Niger have suffered in misery
March 05, 2019
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Japan’s new policy on the Ainu is misleading
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Japan’s new policy on the Ainu is misleading

Though Japan recognised them as an indigenous people in 2008, the New Ainu Policy Bill represents a continuation of the nation’s colonisation of Hokkaido and its native inhabitants
February 21, 2019
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Software outsmarts drug research
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Software outsmarts drug research

Now, a programme can bypass patented drug pathways and create synthetically-produced medicines
February 15, 2019
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Leveraging flexible investment instruments for impact
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Leveraging flexible investment instruments for impact

Flexible investment in the right balance can cut costs and create synergies for SDGs
February 11, 2019
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Democratic regression, human rights and SDGs
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Democratic regression, human rights and SDGs

Governments, the private sector and civil society, all have to play their part to see to it that SDGs are implemented
February 05, 2019
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African countries join hands to transform livelihoods
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African countries join hands to transform livelihoods

An Africa-led financial mechanism started in 2013 has achieved remarkable results by assisting African nations to address critical agricultural challenges, natural resources management, and climate change, while addressing resilience to livelihoods
January 30, 2019
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Twinning Europe and Asia in cyberspace
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Twinning Europe and Asia in cyberspace

There are plenty of lessons for ASEAN to learn from the dynamics of the EU’s cyber regulations such as GDPR and e-IDAS and, use them to foster its own security and elevate a trust in regional e-commerce
January 28, 2019
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Making the rich pay more to care for the poor is common sense
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Making the rich pay more to care for the poor is common sense

The growing gap between the rich and the poor is a result of how governments form policy
January 22, 2019
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West Papuans: An indigenous people that the world forgot
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West Papuans: An indigenous people that the world forgot

More than 300 different Papuan tribes of ethnic Melanesian origin on the western half of New Guinea have been brutally suppressed by the Austronesian-dominated government at Jakarta since 1963
January 22, 2019
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Who is economically secular?
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Who is economically secular?

The rich have the chance to get richer in an economic crisis while the poor face the prospect of sinking deeper in poverty
January 22, 2019
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America’s urban timber movement
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America’s urban timber movement

Instead of turning trees in urban areas into mulch or sending them to the sawmill, US cities are harvesting them locally, lessening their carbon footprint
January 17, 2019
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No worries? Ask Simba
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No worries? Ask Simba

A furore over Disney's trademark on the Swahili phrase Hakuna Matata heats up the cultural appropriation debate
January 16, 2019
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Of whales and men
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Of whales and men

Is Japan’s decision to leave the International Whaling Commission really that big a deal?
January 15, 2019
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Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to contest is a victory for Polynesia
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Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to contest is a victory for Polynesia

Let us, for a moment, forget the Hawaii Congresswoman’s links to Hindu nationalism and instead, focus on her indigenous Pacific roots
January 14, 2019
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COP24: Developed nations successfully wipe out equity in finance, reporting
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COP24: Developed nations successfully wipe out equity in finance, reporting

These countries seem to be working towards a weak and non-ambitious Paris rulebook
December 14, 2018
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COP24: Sum and substance of climate diplomacy
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COP24: Sum and substance of climate diplomacy

Climate change negotiations must move from being a zero-sum game to a positive-sum game
December 14, 2018
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COP24: BASIC willingness to be transparent must bring Katowice consensus closer
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COP24: BASIC willingness to be transparent must bring Katowice consensus closer

At COP24, developing countries agreed to report on climate actions on par with developed countries
December 13, 2018
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