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Plantations are having trouble finding young labourers to sustain production. Precarious working conditions that have hardly evolved since colonial times are a poignant reminder of the lack of job attractivity.
Despite billions being spent on impact assessments around the world, they often end up being just dusty reports on the shelf.
Poverty is the common thread across the places experiencing terrorism in Nigeria.
Like Paris 2024, the Milan-Cortina Winter Games aim to set an example in terms of sustainability, but their implementation comes with its own set of challenges.
Proper forest management can boost rural economies, and prevents fires from starting in the first place.
The real challenge facing the Mauritian government is how to turn a diplomatic triumph into sustainable economic development.
Our ranking covers over 100 metrics in 183 cities spread across 93 countries.
USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power benefits for the US.
Mali aims to increase its stake in mining projects and strengthen control over its natural resources.
On more than half of 80 economic, social and environmental targets, progress has stagnated or is moving backwards. But modelling shows there’s still time to change course.
As the world grapples with building a sustainable future, Wales’ pioneering Well-being of Future Generations Act offers lessons for other nations.
If Nigeria doesn’t roll out clean fuels fast, its carbon dioxide emissions from cooking on firewood will triple by 2060, new research has found.
Nature loss is as critical to national economies as climate change.
Purely technical solutions to the challenges of sustainable development will likely end in failure. Living within planetary boundaries will require a unified effort across disciplines and economies.
The two leading supporters of the ‘inclusive wealth’ metric, the UNEP and World Bank, can’t agree on how it should be measured.
There’s more than one way to be resilient.
The principles of ubuntu (a person is only human through others) should underpin the rollout of renewable energy in rural Zimbabwe if everyone is to get equal access to solar power.
Can the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) help replace traditional growth measures like GDP?
It shouldn’t take sustained public outrage to stop environmentally destructive projects. Nature positive offers us a way forward.
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Monash University
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The University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute and School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand