This archive collects milestones and progress stories involving nations — countries and their governments — acting to improve lives, protect rights, or address shared challenges. From policy breakthroughs to international cooperation, these stories show what countries are doing right.
Fiji has become the first emerging market to issue a sovereign green bond, raising 100 million Fijian dollars, or US$50 million, to support climate change mitigation and adaption.
That leaves Syria as the only nation never to have signed on; the US joins war-torn Syria as one of only two nations currently opposed the agreement.
The 34-year-old lawmaker representing the Communist Party assumed her seat in the upper chamber of congress, where she intends to push a law that would let transgender people change their legal identities without having to get a judge’s approval.
Rapa Nui marine protection shows what’s possible when Indigenous communities lead conservation from the ground up. Easter Island’s roughly 3,000 residents voted 73% in favor of the reserve after five years of community consultations, protecting at least 142 species found nowhere else on Earth. Traditional artisanal fishing by hand line remains permitted, honoring the community’s living relationship with the sea — though enforcement across a remote area this vast remains a genuine challenge. As ocean advocates push toward protecting 30% of global waters, this democratically mandated, community-shaped reserve offers a compelling blueprint for what that effort could actually look like.
Energy minister Paul Wheelhouse says allowing unconventional extraction of coal and gas would put climate goals at risk
Breast cancer death rates declined almost 40 percent between 1989 and 2015, averting 322,600 deaths, the American Cancer Society reported Tuesday.
Research by the Carbon Brief website found that solar generated nearly 7,000 gigawatt hours of electricity between April and September, about 10 per cent more than the 6,300GwH produced by coal during the same period.
Nearly a third of all U.K. electricity came from renewable sources in the second three months of this year, setting a new record for clean energy generation, the Government has revealed.
Women in Saudi Arabia will be permitted to drive in the kingdom, according to a royal decree issued in Riyadh on Tuesday that overturned one of the most widely criticized restrictions on human rights.
Funded by Sweden in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund, the Puntland Forensic Center has been equipped with machines and laboratory equipment that can produce timely results.
