
China tries to ease debt trap worries about its 'Belt and Road' program
Despite fears about being weighed down with too much debt, developing nations embraced the infusion of Chinese cash.
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Despite fears about being weighed down with too much debt, developing nations embraced the infusion of Chinese cash.
The biggest beneficiaries are likely to be the E.U., Mexico, Japan, Canada, South Korea, India, Australia and Brazil.
The U.N. secretary-general demanded that nations act far faster and more decisively to combat the climate crisis.
A panel of U.N. human rights investigators proposed assigning 'an independent, impartial mechanism' to collect evidence.
In a world of 7.6 billion people, 44,500 people a day — one person every two seconds — are displaced, the U.N. said.
High shares of renewables are being integrated in the power sector, but not fast enough to fight climate change.