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In recent years, research Wright and colleagues led has highlighted how prolonged heat exposure places outdoor workers, children, older people and low-income communities at increased risk of dehydration, heat stress, respiratory illness and other adverse health outcomes. The risks are expected to intensify as temperatures continue to rise. (Envato Elements)
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Debt, heat and uprisings: What Seville failed to solve

The UN Financing for Development Summit failed to deal with the real issue of funding Asian, African and other countries who are hit hardest by the climate crisis yet contribute…

  • Khaliel Moses
5 min read
Slowdown: Container Terminal 9 at Kwai Chung in Hong Kong. Hong Kong
ARVIND SUBRAMANIA

Growth is more than just GDP

India and China’s slowdown is natural and they’d do well to focus policies on the notion of wellbeing

  • Abhijit Banerjee
  • Esther Duflo
8 min read