Use + Remix

foreign aid

Through debt cancellation Seychelles was able to establish marine conservation areas : flowcomm (Flickr) CC 2.0

Time is short to act on loss and damage funding, after no action at COP26. With economic pain worsening, a new solution is gaining traction— debt cancellation.

COP27

Debt cancellation: no quick fix to climate funding crunch

Time is short to act on loss and damage funding, after no action at COP26. With economic pain worsening, a new solution is gaining traction— debt cancellation.

Environment
Destruction of homes is a wartime tactic to displace populations. : Petros Giannakouris

The world is much less stable than it was 12 months ago at COP26, but the adversities are unlikely to derail climate change action longer term.

COP27

Crisis weighs heavy on COP27 but climate opportunity awaits

The world is much less stable than it was 12 months ago at COP26, but the adversities are unlikely to derail climate change action longer term.

Environment
Food assistance during emergencies is neither culturally competent nor geographically targeted. : Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Free_Food_Distribution_-_Gangasagar_Fair_Transit_Camp_-_Kolkata_2012-01-14_0613.JPG CC BY 3.0

Modifying traditional foods for disaster-prone states in India can ensure adequate nutrition for people most in need.

Affordable nutrition

Food aid can be food wasted

Modifying traditional foods for disaster-prone states in India can ensure adequate nutrition for people most in need.

Society
Corn in the USA is often grown to feed cattle : Ammodramus (Wikimedia) cc 4.0

The world’s farmers grow crops for food as well as other uses. Those other uses threaten to crowd out our chance to feed the world’s hungry.

Affordable nutrition

Non-food crops are eating up our food

Environment
People of Chinese heritage have been a presence across the Pacific Islands for over 200 years. : Jenny Scott, Flickr CC BY NC 2.0

China’s presence in the Pacific has taken new forms. What was once purely economic, is now much deeper.

China in the Pacific

How China’s presence has grown in the Pacific in the past decade

Conflict
China’s presence in the Pacific has changed in the last decade. : Michael Joiner, 360info CC BY 4.0

China’s investments in the Pacific can be ad hoc and fragmented, but its diplomatic presence has consistently grown.

China in the Pacific

Measuring China’s diplomatic reach in the Pacific

Politics