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Located on the borders between the West African countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger is the landlocked region of Liptako-Gourma. With around 17 million people living across 536,000 square kilometres of the Sahel, it is a region rich in traditions, languages, and customs, intertwined over centuries. It is also an area rich in possibilities. Young people under 25…

National Drought Mitigation Center University of Nebraska-Lincoln The Drought Center helps people, organizations and institutions build resilience to drought through monitoring and planning, and we are the academic partner and web host of the U.S. Drought Monitor. Our capabilities include climatology, social science and public engagement, and we work at all scales, from individual…

Education in the age of artificial intelligence Since ChatGPT pushed generative artificial intelligence into the public awareness in late 2022, many journalists and ministers of education have asked me: “Is digital technology a good or a bad thing for education?” The answer is complex. Technological change is inevitable: Six hundred years ago, the print press revolutionized the…

Pope Francis has said the rich world must make profound changes to tackle the climate crisis, while defending climate protesters and urging governments to make the forthcoming Cop28 climate summit a turning point. He called for “a decisive acceleration of energy transition” from fossil fuels to renewables, but cautioned against relying on new technology such as carbon capture and…

UN Climate Change News, 4 October 2023 - A new synthesis report designed to help governments reach a decision on the global stocktake at COP28 has been published by UN Climate Change. The report reflects the views of governments and their perspectives on the main elements that could constitute such a decision. The global stocktake is part of the Paris Agreement and a key means to…

As the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) took up more than a dozen reports relating to sustainable development today, delegates spotlighted the importance of promoting renewable, sustainable and affordable sources of energy, also calling for more support for developing and least developed countries to sustain progress. One of the reports, introduced by Lotta Tahtinen, Officer…