Climate inaction is claiming millions of lives every year
29/10/2025: The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reveals that heat-related mortality has increased 23% since the 1990s, while droughts and heatwaves in 2023 are linked with an additional 124 million people facing moderate or severe food insecurity.
Source: World Health Organization
Shortfall in climate finance for adaptation threatens lives and economies
29/10/2025: Climate adaptation finance needs in developing countries are 12 times the current amount of international support, according to the latest Adaptation Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme. International public adaptation finance flows to developing countries were $26 billion in 2023: down from $28 billion the previous year.
Source: UN Environment Programme
Sudan’s real-time genocide draws comparison to Bosnia and Rwanda
29/10/2025: A group of human rights and humanitarian aid workers claim that satellite images reveal a scale of violence in Sudan unseen since the mass killings of civilians in Bosnia, Srebrenica, and an earlier wave of genocide a generation ago in Darfur. In the conflict betweeen the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces, both sides have committed atrocities but the RSF is accused of a more systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing against Darfur’s Black tribes.
Source: Devex
Global inequality exposed in carbon pollution of the richest
28/10/2025: New Oxfam research finds that a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year. If everyone emitted like the richest 0.1%, the global carbon budget would be used up in less than 3 weeks.
Source: Oxfam International
Guterres calls for urgent reform of the Security Council
24/10/2025: UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the “fragile” legitimacy of the Security Council could endanger global peace if it remains gridlocked. The body’s structure is viewed by many countries as unrepresentative and its veto system has often stalled action and sparked criticism.
Source: UN News
Russia and China accused of damaging UN human rights funding
22/10/2025: A new report describes a systematic campaign spearheaded by China and Russia to chip away at the UN’s human rights machinery — particularly targeting investigations into abuses in countries like Venezuela and North Korea — by cutting off UN funding.
Source: PassBlue
Why our world needs new ways to manage the risk of war
22/10/2025: While there’s a lot of concern about individual wars, such as Ukraine or Gaza, there are terrible wars – such as Myanmar or Sudan – that get far less attention. And the rise of war itself seems to be flying completely under the radar. Essentially, the system put in place by the victors of World War II is crumbling. There are a number of emerging alternatives to that system that has kept the world reasonably peaceful for 80 years.
Source: The New Humanitarian
A crisis in malaria treatment is coming — we must act faster to contain it
22/10/2025: For malaria treatment, drug resistance is an evolutionary certainty, most recently leading to a spike in deaths, nearly 2 million annually in the early 2000s. Now in parts of Africa, we’re seeing the warning signs of future drug failure — and the global response is not fast enough
Source: Devex
Nepal’s Gen Z protests are a call for democratic renewal
22/10/2025: The collapse of the regime in Nepal is a reminder that governments must listen to their citizens. State brutality against peaceful protestors is indefensible and self-defeating. Nothing is more corrosive to a democratic regime than suppressing citizens’ right to peacefully protest.
Source: East Asia Forum
G20 recommits to debt relief — but critics say it’s far from enough
21/10/2025: The G20 has released a ministerial declaration on debt reaffirming support for the Common Framework, its mechanism for coordinating debt relief among low-income countries. Launched in 2020, the Framework was designed to streamline debt restructuring but only a handful of countries — Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zambia — have gone through the process.
Source: Devex