Stories: Governance & Access

Ministers and senior officials from developed countries will gather this Thursday in Washington, D.C. to tackle one of the world’s foremost challenges: how to mobilize…

This is the first installment of our blog series, Climate Finance FAQs. The series explores the often nebulous world of climate finance, providing clarity on some…

Developing countries will need about $531 billion of additional investments in clean energy technologies every year in order to limit global temperature rise to 2° C…

Research shows that developing countries will need about $531 billion of additional investments in clean energy technologies each year in order to limit global temperature…

Worldwide, one out of every five people lacks access to modern electricity. Affordability, quality of service, and social and environmental impacts…

The world is on track to become a very different place in the next two decades. Per capita income levels are rising, the global middle class is expanding, and the population is set to hit 8.3 billion people by 2030. At the same time, urbanization…

This post originally appeared on Bloomberg.com.

This year has been one of those worst-of-years and best-of-years. In its failures, there are signs of hope.

An unprecedented stream of…

From 2001 to 2011, Brazil’s per capita GDP