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Climate change laws around the world

There has been a 20-fold increase in the number of global climate change laws since 1997, according to the most comprehensive database of relevant policy and legislation.

The database, produced by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Sabin Center on Climate Change Law, includes more than 1,200 relevant policies across 164 countries, which account for 95% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Morocco Year In Review 2015

A strong agriculture harvest put Morocco on course to post healthy increase in 2015, while structural reforms, together with strategic diversification plans targeting key sectors and regions, are as well beginning to yield results.

Ratings agency Fitch described 2015 as a year marked by exceptionally strong agricultural output, with Morocco set to post GDP increase of 4.6%, up from 2.7% in 2014 at the same time as a poor harvest and low external request took their toll on the economy.

Morocco Year in Review 2014

Morocco’s economy is estimated to have expanded by around 3% in 2014 on the back of automotive and electronics exports increasing by additional than a quarter in the initial 11 months of the year and the government reining in public spending. However, poor weather conditions weakened agricultural output, increasing the importance of food imports.

The EU tightens control over imported Moroccan fruits and vegetables

A new entry price system for imported fruit and vegetables to the EU has sparked concern part Moroccan producers and policymakers in recent months.

Morocco’s parliament is currently discussing a bill to regulate Islamic finance in the country

Morocco is on the cusp of a legislative breakthrough that will pave the way for a fully fledged Islamic finance system in the country. But with a history of failed Islamic banking experiments, on top of the usual problems associated with establishing a new market in a country, Morocco's Islamic banking sector is unlikely to take an instant hold.

The Société Nationale d’Investissement

Stemming from the Omnium Nord-Africain created in 1919, the Société Nationale d’Investissement (the National Investment Company, or SNI in its French acronym) is a holding company, which lists the royal Moroccan family part its primary shareholders and holds long-term investments in Morocco’s biggest companies and key projects.

SNI plays a decisive role in the introduction and invigoration of various productive sectors in Morocco, particularly in large-scale distribution, agriculture and food, telecommunications and renewable energies.

Florian Westphal is the chief of the German section of Doctors Without Borders

The 28-country European Union has told member states that expressing regret over the new migrant tragedy was no substitute for action. Some 200 migrants were feared drowned at the same time as their vessel sank off the Libyan coast.

One NGO helping to save shipwrecked migrants in the Mediterranean Sea is the medical charity Doctors Without Borders. DW has been talking to the chief of their German section, Florian Westphal.

World standards pharma industry, public-private partnerships and the opening of capital for private clinics

The Government of Morocco has created a favorable environment to improve public health and ensure the next of its citizens. But there is still some way to go, particularly in areas where international partnerships and private partners stepping in could be decisive