4 strategies for a global breakthrough on energy and climate change

Energy and climate policies aren’t always headed in the same direction, but if they work together they can tackle two of the biggest challenges of our time.

Dolf Gielen, Payne Institute Fellow, Colorado School of Mines • conversation
Sept. 16, 2021 ~8 min

4 strategies for a UN breakthrough on energy and climate change

For the first time in 40 years, the UN General Assembly is convening a global summit of world leaders to talk solely about energy.

Dolf Gielen, Payne Institute Fellow, Colorado School of Mines • conversation
Sept. 16, 2021 ~8 min


Climate adaptation finance is ineffective and must be more transparent

We need to know who gets what, and how money is used once it is allocated.

Jessica Omukuti, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of York • conversation
May 13, 2021 ~7 min

Poor children are being ‘failed by the system’ on road to higher education in lower-income countries

A generation of talented but disadvantaged children are being denied access to higher education because academic success in lower and middle-income countries

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 7, 2021 ~7 min

School closures may have wiped out a year of academic progress for pupils in Global South, study warns

As much as a year’s worth of past academic progress made by disadvantaged children in the Global South may have been wiped out by school closures during the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 9, 2021 ~6 min

‘Left behind’ adolescent women must be prioritised within sustainable development agenda - report

The needs of millions of overlooked, ‘left behind’ adolescent women must become a more significant priority within international efforts to end poverty by

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 11, 2021 ~7 min

In Brazil, a look at why health care declines around elections

Guillermo Toral PhD '20 finds health care quality drops in months leading up to mayoral elections, and if the incumbent loses, the quality continues to fall.

MIT Governance Lab • mit
Jan. 20, 2021 ~8 min

School segregation by wealth is creating unequal learning outcomes for children in the Global South

Millions of the world’s poorest children are leaving school without mastering even basic levels of reading or maths because of an overlooked pattern of widespread, wealth-based inequalities in their countries’ education systems, new research suggests.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 27, 2020 ~6 min


Surging numbers of first-generation learners at risk of being left behind in education systems worldwide

‘First-generation learners’ – a substantial number of pupils around the world who represent the first generation in their families to receive an education – are also significantly more likely to leave school without basic literacy or numeracy skills, a study suggests.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 21, 2020 ~6 min

Global coalition needed to transform girls’ education - report

A new report aims to provide a framework so that "governments and those in power can turn goodwill into action”.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 25, 2020 ~6 min

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