The Tzu Chi Foundation now has 15,000 volunteers around the world, but its core value of 'help yourself first' remains ...

While investment-led growth may offer quick wins, it is efficiency, innovation, and institutional reform that will determine ...

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says discarded plastic “leakage” into the ...

The World Bank’s Double Dividend report outlines how Brazil can simultaneously stabilize its public debt and cut greenhouse ...

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India must invest in making its cities climate-resilient to avoid future economic losses, warns a World Bank report.

CLIMATE change can no longer be viewed merely as an environmental problem; it is now driving up poverty, a new ...

Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica have emerged as leading destinations for U.S. retirees, offering a more affordable, safer and ...

Southeast and East Asia plays a central role in the global effort to tackle plastic pollution, given its substantial share of the global economy ...

Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change Simon Stiell has warned Australia could let the world overheat if a more ambitious ...

Report pitches for Hepatitis vaccination, regular screening for those at risk, public awareness and strict curbs on alcohol ...

United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell has urged Australia to go further in its climate goals, ...