Workers in developing countries, like these men on a building site in Bangladesh, are more likely get heat stress as temperatures rise. Mahmud Hossain Opu/ Royal Holloway, University of London

Why climate action stalls, despite widespread popular support

Recognising the power and subjectivity of the lenses through which we observe and narrate the climate reveals new ways to make positive change.
Bangladeshi garment workers protest to demand payment of wages, April 2020. Monirul Alam/EPA-EFE

Microfinance loans could spell disaster in the time of coronavirus

When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus in 2006 for his concept of microfinance, it brought what began as a local policy experiment in the 1970s to global attention…

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