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Three Olympic villages for the coming 2022 Winter Olympic Games opened for pre-Games trials on Sunday. Athletes and Olympic committee officials from countries and regions who are going to participate in the Games have been arriving in Beijing, and a full dress rehearshal of the opening ceremony was held over the weekend. In just 10 days, more than 2,800 athletes from nearly 100 countries and regions will usher in their career highlights, and hundreds of millions of viewers around the world ...

WASHINGTON, D.C—World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) continued in 2021 to successfully advocate before international standard setting bodies on behalf of the global financial cooperative movement. Here are WOCCU’s Top International Advocacy Success Stories of the year.

More than a hundred countries just promised to protect and restore forests. Similar pledges in the past have not succeeded, but forest advocates hope that this effort can learn from past mistakes.

Special Drawing Rights could strengthen Africa's economic recovery. SDRs are already having an impact on emerging markets and developing countries.

Forest lands managed by local communities are often far more useful in dealing with climate change than compensatory afforestation programmes.

The COP26 deforestation commitment is disingenuous—and could harm the world’s largest forest carbon sink

Pacific Scoop provides news and views from the Pacific and New Zealand

"For my people, the effects of climate change are a daily reality. The rainy season is shorter and when it rains, there are floods. And we have suffered from drought," said Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a m

Brazil's government policy on environmental issues has become particularly destructive under the presidency of Bolsonaro – who is notably absent from COP26.

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 5 — Malaysia has agreed to sign the Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use and the Global Methane Pledge at the 26th Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP-26), according to a statement from the Ministry of Environment and Water...