- Women's parliamentary caucuses are improving female political participation, legislation, and women's rights in Pakistan.
- The Guardian's development blog has a new piece analysing Australia and Canada's shift to merging their aid portfolios into foreign affairs.
- ACFID policy paper calls for 10% of the aid budget to be ring-fenced for humanitarian response work.
- The World Health Organization reports that the air quality in most cities worldwide fails to meet acceptable standards.
- PlanetPolicy: Brookings Institution has launched a new blog on the intersection of energy and climate policy.
- A new report from the US National Climate Assessment affirms that human induced climate change is already impacting every corner of the US. In the video below, Obama's science advisor gives a three-minute overview of the report:
Climate & development links: Women in Pakistan, PlanetPolicy, Climate Assessment and more
Published 12 May 2014
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