Dans le cadre de célébration de la Journée internationale des droits des femmes, un culte œcuménique d’action de grâce a été organisé ce lundi 9 mars au terrain du gouvernorat de Lomami, à Kabinda. Autorités provinciales, responsables religieux et organisations féminines se sont rassemblés pour prier en faveur de l’autonomisation des femmes et de la paix en République démocratique du Congo.
Plus de 5 000 combattants issus de groupes armés ont été démobilisés en deux ans et demi grâce au Programme de désarmement, démobilisation, relèvement communautaire et stabilisation (P-DDRCS). L’annonce a été faite lundi 9 mars à Kinshasa par le coordonnateur du programme, Jean‑Didier Tanga Tita, lors d’un briefing de presse coanimé avec le porte-parole du gouvernement et ministre de la Communication, Patrick Muyaya Katembwe.
Des élèves, étudiants, cadres et agents de l’hôpital Mapon ont manifesté lundi 9 mars dans les rues de Kindu pour protester contre la décision du procureur général ordonnant le gel des comptes bancaires de l’Université Mapon; une décision qui concerne aussi les écoles maternelle, primaire et secondaire et l’hôpital Mapon appartenant à l’ancien Premier ministre et opposant Matata Ponyo.
Les journaux et médias en ligne de la capitale congolaise commentent largement les déclarations de Bahati Lukwebo, deuxième vice-président du Sénat, qui s’insurge contre toute modification de la Constitution visant à ouvrir la voie à un troisième mandat du président Félix Tshisekedi.
Pro-environmental behavior, such as recycling, often needs to be regular to be effective, and interventions to encourage behavioral change may therefore need to be repeated; yet, little evidence exists on the optimal time pattern and frequency of such repeated interventions. To fill this gap, we investigate the impact of mobile text reminders on households’ recycling behavior in urban Peru by randomly varying the exposure length and continuity of reminders. We find that reminders increase both the likelihood that households start to recycle and the frequency of recycling among households that already did so before the intervention. The effects are stronger when reminders are repeated over a longer period. Our findings suggest that both limited attention and habit formation matter for recycling behavior, and that low-cost mobile text reminders can effectively support regular pro-environmental behavior.
In recent years, the European Union (EU) has introduced several policy measures to better align financial markets with sustainability goals. So far, these policies have mainly aimed to improve how information on the sustainability impacts of investments is collected and transmitted. Policymakers hope that adjustments to the epistemic infrastructure of financial markets will lead to a shift in investments that translates into transformational change in the real economy. The EU’s sustainable finance policies often follow a reflexive law approach and confine themselves to setting procedural and organisational norms. This article analyses the potential and limitations of this approach and argues that sustainable finance policies must be sufficiently detailed and binding to avoid the risk, associated with reflexive law policies, of granting too much discretion to agents with vested interests detrimental to the governance aims. However, detailed and binding policies do not fully realise the advantages in dealing with highly complex and dynamic situations that are often ascribed to reflexive law policies. While sustainable finance policies that address the epistemic infrastructure of financial markets are for various reasons still important, their potential and advantages compared to other governance approaches should not be exaggerated.