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Every year on 21 November World Fisheries Day highlights the importance of healthy ocean ecosystems and sustainable fish stocks. But our oceans are in poor health, suffering from the impacts [...]

Ant Forest turns an Alipay user's environmentally friendly actions into “green energy”, which they can then use to plant and nurture a virtual tree. When the tree reaches a certain [...]

Ant Forest turns an Alipay user's environmentally friendly actions into “green energy”, which they can then use to plant and nurture a virtual tree. When the tree reaches a certain [...]

New data shows more than three times as many people will be at risk of flooding from higher tides later this century than previously estimated. By 2050, rising seas could push [...]

Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met in Brasilia last week to discuss the future of the Brics bloc. They identified loans supporting sustainable development from the New [...]

Civil unrest led the leader of Chile to back away from hosting this year's major UN climate summit, COP25, in the capital Santiago. But the country will remain president of [...]

When seabed mining company Nautilus approached the government of Papua New Guinea for permission to start prospecting off the country's coast, it was initially welcomed for the potential revenue it [...]

“The life of every child born today will be profoundly affected by climate change,” according to a new report in the prestigious medical journal the Lancet. Our heating planet is [...]

When it was created in 2014, the New Development Bank (NDB) harboured dreams of finally breaking the hegemony of financing structures created by developed countries and embodied by the International [...]

Porto Velho is one of the biggest cities in the Brazilian Amazon but it still feels like a small town. Located in the heart of Rondônia state, trade is modest [...]

The Children's Public Welfare Development Center of the Leadership Matrix Network (北京博源拓智儿童公益发展中心), a Beijing organisation that focuses on the design and management of charity projects, has released new guidelines for [...]

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) has released the “Blue Book of Corporate Social Responsibility 2019”. The press conference for the Blue Book's release was held alongside the second [...]

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee has reviewed and approved the “Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Adhering to and [...]

It turns out that not everyone in China celebrated Singles' Day this year, or at least not everyone chose to take part in the never-ending shopping craze that goes with [...]

A group photo with all the guest speakers and participants of the CDB Forum 2019. (Photo: CDB) We are pleased to report that China Development Brief's fourth forum for overseas NGOs, [...]

A Beijing court has ordered a man to return the over 150,000 Yuan that he had raised through crowdfunding platform Shuidichou to fund his son's medical expenses. The man, named Mo [...]

According to a report by the Southern Metropolis Weekly, a district court in Zhuhai City has ruled in favour of Fan, a woman who was fired because of her pregnancy, [...]

Winners of Xplorer Prize 2019. (Photo: Tencent) 50 young Chinese researchers were awarded the Xplorer Prize, a program funded by the Tencent Foundation, in a ceremony held in Beijing on November [...]

The Public Security Department's Overseas NGO Management Office in Zhejiang Province and the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education recently issued a registration certificate for the local representative office of Germany's [...]

As stated in an article recently published by the Nanfang Metropolis Daily, universities in China have received a total of 92.7 billion yuan in donations since 1980. Of all the [...]