From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Alden Meyer, a senior consultant at E3G, an independent climate ...

New funding sources urgently needed as planet teeters on critical nature and climate tipping points World leaders must make good on CBD COP15 promise to fund biodiversity action through the Global ...

Out of approximately 195 countries, there are 152 developing countries in the world. An estimated 6.74 billion people in total live in these developing countries; an outstanding number when comparing ...

The WTO says it doesn't officially distinguish between developed and developing countries, but some nations self-identify as developing. Chinese officials, in their statements, did not mention the ...

Nearly three decades after the first UN climate conference, emissions are still rising. The global system for tackling ...

Developing countries face significant challenges in achieving their primary goals of poverty alleviation, reducing unemployment, and minimizing inequality. It’s shocking that “GREEN” policymakers are ...

Since the first industrial revolution in the 18th century, technological innovation has driven human prosperity – though unequally. Nations with physical infrastructure, such as factories, steam ...

Whether you use “Third World” or “Developing” to describe a certain country, both terms mean the same thing: poor. But it didn’t always mean that. During World War I, First World was used to refer to ...

China has said it would no longer seek the special treatment given to developing countries in World Trade Organization agreements — a change long demanded by the United States. It was not clear ...