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Reducing environmental degradation requires not only ecosystem preservation, but also economic and social growth. The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, and its inhabitants, have long been at the center of this duality. Advances in bioeconomics, based on renewable natural resources, are offering new hope, as Brazil prepares to host the COP 30 Summit, in Belém, Pará state, in November 2025.

Launched in 2015, the African higher education Centres of Excellence program is celebrating ten years of transforming higher education across the continent. Led by the Association of African Universities (AAU), with financing from the World Bank Group and Agence Française de Développement (AFD), this ambitious project has established a network of universities, driving innovation, research and economic development in Africa. A decade on, we take a look back at this collective program’s achievements and consider its prospects for the future.

As the world prepares for the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC), set to take place from 9 to 13 June 2025 in Nice, France, the stopovers of the laboratory ship Plastic Odyssey in the Indian Ocean mark an unprecedented regional mobilization in the fight against plastic pollution.