In 2025, Panama introduced the Nature Pledge as a 10-year framework that aims to unify climate change, biodiversity, and land-restoration commitments into one national agenda. It represents Juan Carlos Navarro’s…
Chilean President José Antonio Kast is pursuing a market-oriented critical minerals policy, breaking with former President Gabriel Boric’s state-led lithium strategy. Kast has merged the economy and mining ministries and…
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has introduced welfare programmes and diversified the country’s foreign partnerships since his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won the February 2026 elections. With the Awami League…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan placed the Diyanet, Türkiye’s Presidency of Religious Affairs, under direct presidential control in 2018 and has since expanded it to 106 countries as a foreign…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed remains unable to turn his goal of Red Sea access into concrete results, with alternative routes through Somaliland, and the Ankara Declaration unfulfilled. Opposition from…
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk secured €43.7 billion under the EU’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) programme, the largest allocation of any member state, and announced a drone production partnership…
Vanessa Nakate is a Ugandan climate activist who advocates for a humanitarian approach to the climate crisis, emphasising urgent action for vulnerable communities and greater inclusion of Africa in global…
Jonas Gahr Støre, the Norwegian Prime Minister, continues to hand out licences to explore and drill the Arctic for oil and gas. Støre disregards the EU's call for a moratorium…
First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party Miguel Díaz-Canel announced Cuba’s biggest structural reform package since the revolution in 1959. The economic measures come as the United States embargo has…
The Blue Map transformed scattered environmental records into one main database, allowing for easy public access to data. The Blue Map has expanded nationally, now covering millions of enforcement records,…