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Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels. DW has the latest.

The Society of Environmental Journalists is pleased to announce the Outstanding Explanatory Reporting, Large winners of the 2023 SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Read the stories and hear from the first-place winner.

This week on World in Progress: Affordable housing is hard to come by. The situation is particularly dire in some cities in Turkey where inflation is high, and apartments are few and far between. And some people in the Netherlands are building their own town from the ground up.

We’re squeezing more and more out of our livestock, to maximize food production. We breed cows that produce more milk, and use gene editing to boost animal growth. Could we use the same methods to make our food production more sustainable? And should we?

We selectively breed dairy cows for more milk and pigs with extra ribs, and genetically engineer salmon to make them grow faster. Could genetic engineering make meat, milk and dairy more sustainable? And just because we can do it – should we?