Last year ended with a momentous political step forward on climate change. The Paris Agreement requires countries to work together to meet and surpass their 'intended nationally determined contributions' (INDCs).
19 January 2016
At the end of last year, President Xi Jinping dropped in to Harare en route to South Africa and the major FOCAC (Forum on China-Africa Cooperation) meeting, held every few years, where $60bn was pledged for African development.
18 January 2016
Despite substantial global progress on human development, the world’s poorest have seen little change in their income and continue to experience multiple and intersecting inequalities. Can market-based solutions help ensure that no one is 'left behind'?
13 January 2016
27-28 January New Delhi, India Uncertainty is often considered to be a "super wicked problem" or "monster" by scientists and policy makers. The integration of uncertainty in climate change decision-making is very much debated and disputed by scientists.
13 January 2016
Cities in India and other South Asian nations are in the midst of experiencing rapid urbanization. In this time of growth, safeguarding environmental integrity and social justice will be decisive for the health and livelihoods of citizens.
12 January 2016
Jim Sumberg lays out 4 reasons to be cautious in thinking that agriculture is the answer to the Africa youth unemployment challenge. He argued these points at a debate at the Mastercard Young Africa Works Summit asking the same question.
8 January 2016
The workshop is led by Lyla Mehta and follows our symposium on Resource Politics last September.
8 January 2016
Bats can be important transmitters of new, 'emerging' diseases around the world, some of which go on to become pandemic. New research is discovering the complex interactions between bats and humans that help these diseases to spread.
5 January 2016
The International Social Science Council has published interviews from the COP21 climate conference with three researchers who are part of their ‘Transformations to Sustainability programme’. The interviewees include STEPS researcher Adrian Ely.
5 January 2016
STEPS member Adrian Smith is one of the organisers of a session at this year’s EASST/4S conference. The session title is ‘Digital fabrications amongst hackers, makers and manufacturers: whose “industrial revolution”?’
4 January 2016
29 December 2015
If the Pope's mission is to push for an end to violence and for peace and reconciliation, sex education and sexual violence need to be high on his agenda, says Pauline Oosterhoff.
1 December 2015
