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Illegal logging will sink Government`s timber Processing Plans |
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By :Eddie Tanago, Act Now |
| 02 June 2026 |
The government’s ambitious plan to establish four regional centres for timber processing and value-adding will fail unless it first puts an end to widespread illegal logging
Major overseas markets have strict rules against importing illegally sourced timber and their consumers demand the highest environmental and human rights standards.
Countries like the United
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The Dark Side of the Energy Transition: Green Colonialism in Southern Honduras |
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By :Luciana Ghiotto, Paloma Milá, Jen Moore, Aldo Orellana López, Karen Spring |
| 26 May 2026 |
Multinational corporations exploited demand for green energy to shake down some of the most impoverished communities in the Americas.
Countries around the world need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. But in some of the world’s most impoverished countries, the companies developing this technology are too often repeating the colonial,
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Returning Forced Evictions to the Development Agenda |
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By :Joseph Schechla, HIC-HLRN |
| 10 April 2026 |
Eviction, forced displacement, and tenure insecurity were actively discussed during the negotiations of the 2030 Agenda, but they were not codified explicitly in SDG 11. Instead, they were either excluded, subsumed, diluted, and redistributed across broader targets (especially 1.4 and 11.1) and other SDGs due to political, technical, and institutional
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A Lake Remade: How Manzala’s Waters Became Clear Enough to Fish for Money |
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By :Nada Arafat, Mostafa Hosny- Mada news |
| 08 May 2025 |
For over 40 years, Mohamed Okasha earned his living fishing in Lake Manzala. It was his only livelihood — the means by which he fed his family, put his children through school and married them off. But over the decades, he watched the lake — or “the sea,” as locals
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European Energy & Ag Investments May Harm MENA Environment & Society |
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By :Greenpeace MENA |
| 11 March 2025 |
European investments in energy and agriculture in the region may worsen environmental and social harm. Thus reveals a new report by Greenpeace MENA and the MENAFem Movement for Economic, Development, and Ecological Justice.
The report reveals how European investments in Morocco and Egypt’s oil, gas, renewable energy, green hydrogen, and agriculture
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Another Illegitimate Gaza-reconstruction Plan |
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By :Tal Schneider, The New Arab |
| 07 February 2025 |
The man with the plan: DC prof sent Trump study on Gaza relocation, development in July
George Washington University economics professor Joseph Pelzman wrote detailed proposal for Trump’s team; says ‘you have to destroy the whole place, restart from scratch’
US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gaza’s Palestinians and then redevelop
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Financing the Green Transition in Tunisia |
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By :Shrouk Diaa |
| 24 August 2024 |
Tunisia is at the heart of one of the most water-scarce regions on the planet. As the effects of climate change progress, some predict that Tunisia will rank 33rd among the world’s most water-stressed countries by 2040.
A study published in March 2024 ranked Tunisia as the fifth most vulnerable country
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CoP28 Delivers: What, Who and How They’re Pledging |
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By :Reuters |
| 06 December 2023 |
Who is pledging climate finance at COP28, and how much?
At this year`s U.N. climate summit, countries, development institutions and businesses are pledging more money for everything from the energy transition to health care initiatives, technology investments, disaster relief and more.
Hosts the United Arab Emirates said more than $83 billion had been
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Global Letter to UN & World Bank: Set Serious Goals to Combat Inequality |
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By :Equals Hope |
| 17 July 2023 |
Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General and President of the World Bank-Setting Serious Goals to Combat Inequality
17 July 2023
Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres and President of the World Bank Ajay Banga,
RE: Setting serious goals to combat inequality
As a group of economists and leaders in the fight
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Iran Privatization Wave Raises Concern |
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By :Ali Noureddine, fanack.com |
| 06 March 2023 |
Iran Privatization Wave Raises Concern
Current doubts about Iran privatization wave path stem from negative past experiences, lack of transparency and the absence of comprehensive economic plans.
The Iranian government is gearing up to generate 108,000 Iranian tomans in 2023 from the sale of government-owned assets.
In order to facilitate this process, the Iranian authorities have secured
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