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As the international community continues to struggle with the impact of COVID-19, conflict and climate change, the latest report from the Young Lives project shows a long-running upward trend in young people’s well-being has been sharply reversed alongsid

Young lives under pressure as global crises hits mental health and well-being – report

have made no meaningful progress whatsoever on limiting the climate impacts themselves going forward, despite being tilted as the “implementation COP”. This inaction is incompatible with reaching the 1.5-degree target

Expert Comment - Climate justice and credible targets..or will COP27 be remembered as a 'lame duck'?

Think of the woman fetching water for her family or cooking over a woodstove…she suffers more from the degradation of our natural biomass and water resources than anyone else

Expert comments: COP27 Gender Day

Older person using a laptop: Gen-Z and millennials are digital natives who are pointing to the direction of our digital futures. India is among the fastest risers in tech-enabled countries. Credit: Shutterstock

US top of tech-enabled countries, but China and India among the fast movers - report

Preventable causes of death are driving early-life disparities in black and white young adults in the United States

External factors, including homicide, drive death rate disparity in US black-white young adults

These new guidelines mean when we see products and labels that say ‘net zero’ or ‘carbon neutral’ we now have a rubric against which to question whether these organisations are actually doing what it takes to get there

COP27: Net Zero guidelines aim to drive higher standards and counter 'greenwashing' accusations

Professor Myles Allen: Speaking last weekend on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Professor Allen used lumps of coal to illustrate how much fossil fuel the world has already burned – and continues to burn, despite efforts to reduce emissions. He said, ‘Calls

We must stop fossil fuels causing global warming, before the world stops using fossil fuels - Prof Myles Allen

today’s data from Oxford’s Net Zero Tracker shows, in the 25 highest emitting regions: 60% of companies and over 80% of cities and regions still do not have a net zero target

UN report calls for non-state emissions action: as new data shows 60% of top businesses have no net zero target

What is going on now, where Democrats and Republicans are coming from seemingly implacably opposed positions, could really be described as a ‘cold civil war’ – and a far bigger threat than there has been in 150 years

Expert Comment. American midterms: Is compromise possible amid the 'cold civil war'?

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