With Valentine’s Day approaching, the prices of fancy chocolates and flowers skyrocket with the sudden influx of lovers demanding these goods to gift to their partners. In Ghana – the world’s second largest producer of cocoa – unpaid cocoa farmers are finding it difficult to put food on the table  and pay for their children’s schooling. In 2024, Ghana ranked 81 out of 193 in terms of GDP,  with most of its trade (16B) dependent on the export of gold (5.90B), cocoa (1.46B) and

Brazil has become the focal point of an intensifying geopolitical contest over rare earths, with the US, EU, and China racing to secure access to the country’s vast reserves. These minerals are essential for clean energy, defense, and advanced manufacturing, yet global supply remains heavily dominated by China. Holding the world’s second-largest reserves, most of them still underdeveloped, Brazil has emerged as a strategic prize at a moment of rising trade tensions. Washingto

January 2026. Ofwat set to be abolished in what could be the most radical overhaul of the water sector since privatisation. The operations of England and Wales’ privatised water and sewage systems are murky in more ways than one. Polluted rivers and untreated sewage, opaque finances, blurred accountability, a regulatory system that struggles to see clearly beneath the surface. ‘Murk in every sense’ Does the government’s “New Vision for Water” genuinely cut through the fog,

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Joseph R. Biden, the 46th President of the United States, recently changed the vocabulary of the White House and federal agencies to...

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We thank James Close, former director of the Climate Change Group in the World Bank, for his contribution, and note that although the...

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Matthew Jones

According to a poll this year, 48% of Americans are afraid of climate change. This may sound like a large percentage, but it is not...