Tackling the ocean plastic crisis through innovation and community action
How Pakistan can combine technology, citizen participation and nature-based solutions to protect its coastline.
Editorial Team SDG9
16 hours ago2 min read
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THE WORLD IS CHANGING
Four years of listening to a changing world
As Global Society News approaches its fourth anniversary, the editorial team reflects on the people, communities and organisations driving change
Editorial
Apr 305 min read
Tackling the ocean plastic crisis through innovation and community action
How Pakistan can combine technology, citizen participation and nature-based solutions to protect its coastline.
Editorial Team SDG9
16 hours ago2 min read
How climate tech and advanced manufacturing are changing who gets to innovate
New tools are shortening the path from laboratory idea to market, but access remains uneven
Editorial Team SDG9
2 days ago6 min read
Voices of the High Seas for Colombia: youth, ocean governance, and the right to shape our blue future
A youth-led campaign calls on Colombia to protect the high seas and include young voices in ocean governance
Gabriela Casuso
3 days ago3 min read
Accra under heat: rising temperatures trigger wider climate concern
Rising temperatures in Accra expose Ghana’s growing heat crisis, with health, economic and climate risks intensifying.
Richard Nutakor
4 days ago4 min read
Heinrich Böll Foundation and the politics of ecology, democracy and power
A German policy foundation links climate, democracy and resource governance in a fractured global debate
Editorial Team SDG12
5 days ago6 min read
IDF Europe and the quiet logistics of diabetes care in crisis
How a European diabetes network helps protect access to insulin, supplies and care during emergencies
Editorial Team SDG3
6 days ago6 min read
The World Food Programme at the centre of a growing hunger hotspot crisis
The UN agency’s food crisis assessments have become an essential warning system as acute food insecurity deepens
Editorial Team SDG2
7 days ago6 min read
Wadhwani Foundation push to turn research into public value
A non-profit is backing innovation hubs that aim to move Indian research from laboratories into usable technologies
Editorial Team SDG8
May 96 min read
Critical minerals are reshaping the clean energy transition and global power
Rising demand for transition minerals is exposing new tensions over mining, sovereignty and fairer economic returns
Editorial Team SDG12
May 76 min read
Education Cannot Wait and the widening education emergency facing children in crisis
The UN fund tracks and supports education needs as conflict, displacement and climate shocks keep millions from school
Editorial Team SDG4
May 77 min read
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Education Cannot Wait and the widening education emergency facing children in crisis
The UN fund tracks and supports education needs as conflict, displacement and climate shocks keep millions from school
Editorial Team SDG4
May 7
Plastic Oceans International and the politics of turning film into action
The US non-profit uses storytelling, science and local dialogue to push plastic pollution from awareness into policy
Editorial Team SDG14
Apr 23
Nuclear power and the energy transition, where costs, timelines, safety and waste really stand
Nuclear can cut emissions, but high upfront costs and long build times shape how it compares with renewables and storage
Editorial Team SDG7
Apr 1
The world is changing.
In all countries, people are taking action, joining forces and creating new innovations to shape the future in a sustainable way, and every day new ideas and solutions are emerging - out of desperation, hope, curiosity and courage.
Here you find lates news, stories and progress around this development.
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Voices of the High Seas for Colombia: youth, ocean governance, and the right to shape our blue future
A youth-led campaign calls on Colombia to protect the high seas and include young voices in ocean governance
Gabriela Casuso
3 days ago3 min read
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THIS WEEK:
Communities & Infrastructure
Tackling the ocean plastic crisis through innovation and community action
How Pakistan can combine technology, citizen participation and nature-based solutions to protect its coastline.
Editorial Team SDG9
16 hours ago
IDF Europe and the quiet logistics of diabetes care in crisis
How a European diabetes network helps protect access to insulin, supplies and care during emergencies
Editorial Team SDG3
6 days ago
The World Food Programme at the centre of a growing hunger hotspot crisis
The UN agency’s food crisis assessments have become an essential warning system as acute food insecurity deepens
Editorial Team SDG2
7 days ago
Education Cannot Wait and the widening education emergency facing children in crisis
The UN fund tracks and supports education needs as conflict, displacement and climate shocks keep millions from school
Editorial Team SDG4
May 7
TELL Japan, the quiet infrastructure of mental health support
A Tokyo-based non-profit offers confidential counselling and crisis support for people navigating distress in Japan
Editorial Team SDG3
May 5
Climate disasters, conflict and exclusion are making education unstable for millions of children
Schools may still stand, but crisis is making learning less regular, safe and equal for millions of children
Editorial Team SDG4
May 4
Water Stewardship enters the age of shared responsibility
The Alliance for Water Stewardship shows how water risk is becoming a question of trust, governance and collective action
Editorial Team SDG6
May 3
Infrastructure, power, and people: inside Africa’s shift from ambition to execution
Insights from the Africa We Build Summit 2026 on Africa’s infrastructure shift, capital, and regional integration
Edwin Ochola
May 2
The Water Project and the difficult work of keeping rural water systems running
A water charity working in Kenya, Uganda and Sierra Leone highlights the gap between access and reliability
Editorial Team SDG6
Apr 28
Fundación Affinity and the careful case for animal-assisted therapy
A Spanish foundation has helped move human-animal bonds from sentiment into health, care and education practice
Joan Ubide
Apr 26
Community-led conservation initiative focuses on biodiversity and rural livelihoods in Mpem et Djim
In Cameroon, BIOCOM-MDJ aims to involve nearby villages in protecting wildlife, forests and sustainable local livelihoods
Editorial Team SDG15
Apr 20
The World Food Programme at the centre of a growing hunger hotspot crisis
The UN agency’s food crisis assessments have become an essential warning system as acute food insecurity deepens
Editorial Team SDG2
Apr 15
How Europe’s debt architecture is draining public budgets in the global south
Rising repayments to creditors linked to London and other European financial centres are squeezing health, schools and climate action
Editorial Team SDG3
Apr 13
Peace, resources and conflict, how competition over water, land and minerals can turn violent
Recent reporting on Iranian threats around Gulf desalination plants shows how civilian water systems can enter regional coercion
Editorial Team SDG6
Apr 2
StepChange and the growing role of debt advice charities in household crisis
Free debt advice has become a frontline service as UK households struggle with arrears, rising essentials and insecure finances
Editorial Team SDG1
Mar 30
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