Chinese bike-sharing start-up and UNDP cooperate to support innovative solutions to climate change challenges

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ofo, a Beijing-based start-up company that has become the world’s first and largest bike sharing platform, are joining forces to raise public...

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Development aid rises again in 2016

Development aid reached a new peak of USD 142.6 billion in 2016, an increase of 8.9% from 2015 after adjusting for exchange rates and inflation. A rise in aid...

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New Way of Viewing the Sustainable Development Goals

A new way of viewing the economic, social and ecological aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been developed from the Stockholm Resilience Centre and it is based...

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2016 a Record Year for Renewables

Global renewable energy generation capacity increased by 161 gigawatts (GW) in 2016, making the strongest year ever for new capacity additions, according to data released today by the...

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