Next month, signatories to the 1989 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will convene in Kigali, Rwanda, to consider an amendment to the treaty that would gradually reduce, and eventually eliminate, the use of hydrofluorocarbons.HFCs, which are one of the

American voters are angry.

 The G-20’s finance ministers and central bank governors have begun to undertake a stunning shift in mindset.

King Henry VIII, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein”, all lost their mothers to infections following childbirth, and literature abounds with tragic stories of maternal death, from “A Christmas Carol” to “Wuthering Heights”, “Far From the Madding Crowd

The last time the atmosphere held as much carbon dioxide as it does today was about 3 million years ago — a time when sea levels were 10-30 metres higher than they are now.Climate models have long struggled to duplicate those large fluctuations in sea levels — until now.Indeed, f

Sandwiched between Angola and South Africa, Namibia suffered mightily during the long struggle against apartheid.Yet, since winning independence from South Africa in 1990, this country of 2.4 million people has achieved enormous gains, especially in the last couple of years.A big

What value does the digital economy provide Africa?The largest technology companies all have strategies for getting their products into African markets, but few have plans to provide what Africans truly need: jobs in the economy of the future.Africa’s population is projected to s

In recent years, the push to build a “green economy” that can deliver the world from continual environmental and economic crisis, and usher in a new era of sustainable growth has been gathering force.But the push has been a source of unexpected controversy, with many predicting l

The course of public debate has become depressingly familiar. It often begins with a surprise — for example, Donald Trump, the real estate tycoon turned reality TV star, defies the odds to become the US Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.The pundits dive in.