CBK targets to make the disclosures voluntary for banks from January next year and then mandatory two years later.

South Africa's central bank cut its main interest rate for the first time in more than four years, as it said it saw ...

These activists are working to make their homes more resilient in a variety of ways, from protecting wildlife to planting ...

AGOA expires in 2025, and Washington’s political climate suggests a ‘business-as-usual’ approach is unlikely to suffice.

Scientists forecast how climate hazards like heat waves and mosquito-borne diseases will worsen in nearly 1,000 major cities ...

The chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation talks about how the fight for global health lost steam — and how to get it ...

Longer and more frequent heatwaves, soaring demand for air conditioning and widespread disease: life in cities would become ...

Climate change is making Africa a country where growing nutritious food is becoming hard. We bring you a report from Africa where bouillon or stock cubes are being used to make up for the food ...

By now it has been widely reported that we just lived through the hottest summer on record. Of course, the same thing was ...

Severe rains bucketed down on central Europe, Africa, Shanghai and the U.S. Carolinas this week, underscoring the extreme ways in which climate change is altering the weather.

To increase the supply of sustainable water for fertilizer production, farmers, and households in Morocco, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector arm, has ...

Three massive flood events across three continents have claimed over 1,500 lives and cost over $15 billion in September.