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Fishers struggle as Gwadar port grows
Twenty years of foreign investment turned a town on Pakistan’s coast into a huge port, which fishers say has made their lives far harder.
As China launches the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO) to support AI training in developing countries, academics offer contrasting views on how it could extend Beijing’s global influence, much like the Belt and Road, while warning how it may intensify rivalry with the US-led Pax Silica initiative.
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As new sources of climate finance grow, the poorest are neglected
Developing countries are mobilising more and more climate finance but neglecting their lowest-income peers.
Carbon & Climate
Pax Silica must not deepen inequality as the Philippines pursues AI ambitions, women in energy transition say
The United States-led partnership, that aims to position the country as a strategic hub for critical minerals, must embed climate justice, gender equity and community participation from the outset to ensure a just energy transition, warn women advocates.
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