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Eight to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food wasted somewhere along its journey from farm to table. When that organic waste ends up in a landfill, it emits methane, …
Food banks have long prevented emissions. Now they’re getting into the carbon credit business. Read More
Ecuador leapt into the global economy seeking economic development but found only dependency. María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña writes. At Guayaquil airport, Ecuadorians disembark from deportation flights, some wearing ankle monitors …
The price of compliance Read More
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko tells how alternatives to neoliberal consumption are being built in the Global South even as Trumps’ America charges around. As Trump-era tariffs spiral into renewed trade chaos, …
Alternative route Read More
Auska Ovando and Martha Hungwe explain why trade between Global South nations is increasing and why the forces at play cannot be solely those of the market. South-South trade has …
Trade heads south Read More
If all goes according to plan, by the end of the year, some 170 countries will finalize the world’s first legally binding treaty to curtail plastic pollution. Its success will depend …
One way a plastics treaty could help the Global South: Fund waste management Read More
A few years ago, the German professor of intellectual property law Tim Dornis was on sabbatical in California when the General-Secretary of the German Association for Intellectual Property Law (GRUR) …
Intellectual property: How to stop Western theft Read More
NEW DELHI (AP) — It’s never been easy for the leaders of the world’s largest economies to find common ground, but Russia’s war on Ukraine has made it even harder …
India seeks a greater voice for the developing world at G20 but the Ukraine war may overshadow talks Read More
Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva’s narrow victory over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s recent presidential election has reinvigorated the Latin American left. Despite recent setbacks in Peru and Argentina, left-wing governments in the …
Latin America’s pink tide is preparing for the green revolution Read More
More than 1,700 environmental and land defenders have been killed in the last decade. Most of them were Indigenous people — and most were in Latin America, a DW analysis …
Defending the environment can be a death sentence Read More
Patricia Gestoso tells how the Global North exploits poverty and weak laws in the South to accelerate its digital transformation. The hype around idyllic tech workplaces that originated in Silicon …
How artificial intelligence is recolonising the Global South Read More