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In race to clean energy, emerging nations seize bigger role – World Bank

Energy – Feb 15, 2017

In this 2013 file photo, a boy stands in front of wind turbines at the Ashegoda Wind Farm, near a village in Mekelle, Tigray, 780 km (485 miles) north of Addis Ababa.

Unleash the entrepreneur in every small farmer - new U.N. agency chief

Agriculture – Feb 15, 2017

In this file 2011 photo, former Prime Minister of Togo Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, in New York.

Air pollution linked to 2.7 million premature births a year - scientists

Pollution – Feb 16, 2017

In this 2014 file photo, a premature baby at Civil Hospital (CHU) waits in an incubator during the relocation of the hospital of Charleroi, southern Belgium.

U.N. pushes 'smart crops' as rice alternative to tackle hunger in Asia

Food – Mar 14, 2017

A farmer plants saplings in a rice field in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, July 8, 2015.

Despite growth, one in 10 Asians live in extreme poverty

Poverty – Mar 29, 2017

Women wrap themselves in blankets in a government shelter for homeless people to escape the cold in Delhi, India

As cities surge, careful planning needed for the 'invisible' poor

Urban planning – Apr 5, 2017

Local shoe menders work along a street in Ebutte meta district in Lagos,Nigeria July 28, 2016.

Latin America's poor need more help to tackle Zika: UN

Disease control – Apr 6, 2017

Raquel Barbosa bathes her daughter Heloisa, who has a twin sister named Heloa, both 10 months old and both born with microcephaly, at her house in Areia, Paraiba state, Brazil

Attract youth to farming in Nigeria to fight extremism, says campaigner

Farming – Apr 7, 2017

Kola Masha, Managing Director of Babban Gona and winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

Hundreds of millions of poor menaced by 'silent killer': heat

Heat – Apr 12, 2017

A worker takes a bath from the water of a bore pump on a hot summer day in Gurgaon, India, May 29, 2015.

China looks to insurance to stem mounting disaster loss

Insurance – Apr 21, 2017

A woman cries as she cannot find her 4-year-old daughter and husband on top of the ruins of a destroyed school in earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, China in this May 17, 2008 file photo.

Climate change offers huge investment opportunity, say experts

Climate finance – Apr 24, 2017

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (R) listens to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim at the "Unlocking Financing for Climate Action session" during the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington

To end poverty, Latin America must invest in equal, green growth: UN

Economic development – Apr 27, 2017

Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), delivers a speech during a news conference as part of the 36th session of ECLAC in Mexico City, in this May 23, 2016 archive photo.

WHO to help bring cheap biosimilar cancer drugs to poor

Pharmaceuticals – May 4, 2017

via Reuters

Pieces to solve the poverty puzzle include culture and environment

Development – May 5, 2017

via Rethink

Rise in micro-grids could penalise U.S. city's poor - experts

Energy access – May 10, 2017

Crews work to restore power lines in Issaquah, Washington in the United States, December 10, 2015.

FACTBOX-Air pollution: Why and how it kills

Pollution – May 18, 2017

A man wearing a respiratory protection mask walks toward an office building during the smog after a red alert was issued for heavy air pollution in Beijing's central business district, China, December 21, 2016.

Afghanistan needs infrastructure overhaul to face risks ahead - official

disaster risk reduction – May 24, 2017

Afghan men push a motorcycle as they cross a damaged bridge after a flood in the Surkhroad district of Nangarhar province, February 25, 2015.

Mexico urges wealthy nations to help poorer states cut disaster risk

disaster risk reduction – May 25, 2017

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto delivers a speech during an event to recognize the contributions made by members of the Mexican foreign service, in Mexico City, Mexico, April 28, 2017.

Who can we trust to measure urban poverty?

Poverty – May 31, 2017

Lina Maria da Silva, 62, a babysitter, poses for a photograph with the children she takes care of at her home in the Cantagalo slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tanzania urban plan seeks to protect cities from climate threats

Urban planning – Jun 2, 2017

People walk through a flooded area to watch the Olympic torch relay in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, April 13, 2008.