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Institutional investors have agreed to integrate environmental, social and good governance issues into their investment decisions. But few investors have lived up to these commitments. Cecile Feront and Stephanie Bertels say that the solution is to reframe what constitutes responsible investment.
African sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease passed on to people by the tsetse fly. If left untreated, the disease can lead to the infected person becoming lethargic, and then possibly entering a prolonged coma before dying. The sickness is curable, but diagnosis and treatment are complicated. Cases of the disease have declined over the past 50 years and the World Health Organisation wants to eliminate the disease this year. Elisha Bayode Are and John Hargrove explore the impact of higher temperatures on tsetse fly populations.
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Civil society groups are flagging the risk of ‘greenwashing’ by companies.
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Cecile Feront, University of Cape Town; Stephanie Bertels, Simon Fraser University
Major investors profess support for efforts against climate change but have very little to show for their promises.
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Tsetse flies can pass on African sleeping sickness.
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Elisha Bayode Are, South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling & Analysis (SACEMA) ; John Hargrove, South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling & Analysis (SACEMA)
Mathematical modelling tools may predict where tsetse flies are being driven to extinction.
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Education
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Joyce Esi Bronteng, University of Cape Coast; Ilene Berson, University of South Florida; Michael J Berson, University of South Florida
Inadequate public education on a new language policy has generated resistance from parents at the early childhood education level in Ghana
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Mary Ann Dove, University of Cape Town
Interviewing dozens of South African cricketers across all levels of the sport finds a perception that transformation has, in fact, slowed since the early 1990s.
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Politics + Society
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Alexandra Novosseloff, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
The number of personnel deployed in UN peacekeeping has slowly been decreasing.
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Andrew Gibbs, South African Medical Research Council; Rachel Jewkes, South African Medical Research Council
Two interventions proved effective in reducing men's perpetration, but not women's experiences of violence.
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From our international editions
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Graeme Gill, University of Sydney
Putin's proposed changes to the constitution appear to be limiting the power of the presidency. But his sights are set beyond 2024 when he'll no longer be president.
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Christian Borch, Copenhagen Business School
Once algorithms go live on markets, they start behaving in ways that programmers could not have foreseen.
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