Deep inside the mangrove forests of the Niger Delta, thousands of young men use makeshift equipment, risking arrest and accidents, to refine a valuable commodity: oil. They fill a pressing gap in Nigeria. Africa’s top petroleum producer can’t refine nearly enough oil to fulfil its citizens’ needs. As fuel prices have surged in the last year, demand is higher than ever for black market fuel. Yet illegal refiners face an increasingly intense clampdown from the government, which is trying to claw back lost revenue; and many communities in the Niger Delta blame them for contributing to decades of environmental damage caused by oil spills. But when those who endure the worst of oil’s environmental impacts are also helping to keep the business alive, what does this tell us about a dirty yet essential commodity? And what will it take to quit oil? We travelled to the heart of the Niger Delta to find out. 0:00 Intro 1:19 Nigeria's fuel needs 3:25 Meet the illegal oil refiners 5:32 The government's crackdown 6:56 Shell's presence in Nigeria 7:42 The legacy of Ken Saro-Wiwa 10:48 Moving forward for Nigeria's oil economy #oil #nigeria #fuel -- Subscribe: https://www.bit.ly/3L0j2Ro Watch more videos: https://www.bit.ly/3FPmblU Visit our site: https://www.context.news/ — We make short documentaries, explainers and original series for people who care about the world’s biggest challenges. Context is anchored around three of the most significant and interdependent issues of our time: climate change, the impact of technology on society and inclusive economies. We contextualize how critical issues and events affect ordinary people, society and the environment. Context is a media platform brought to you by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate foundation of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information services company. Through journalism, media development, free legal assistance, and convening initiatives, we combine our unique services to drive systemic change.

In recent years, fast fashion brands like Zara have promised to produce and sell clothes in a more sustainable way for both the planet and the people who make their clothes. But our reporting found that those promises are at risk, due to some of Zara's — and its parent company Inditex's — business tactics. We spent months digging through supply chain data and conducting interviews with garment workers, factory owners, and former employees, and we found that Inditex has dramatically increased its use of dirtier, more expensive airplanes in the last few years to ship clothes from manufacturing countries such as Bangladesh, India, and Turkey to warehouses in Europe and stores around the world. Not only is air shipping’s carbon footprint around 35 times higher than shipping by sea, its use as a last resort in order to make sure clothes arrive on time adds to the pressure that garment workers face: producing clothes as quickly as possible, at times working overtime shifts with delayed payments and under harassment. In the case of one particular Inditex brand called Lefties, costly air shipping exasperates what is already a low-margins business. From Bangladesh to Spain, we uncover how companies like Inditex built a supply chain network optimised for speed at the potential expense of the environment and workers. 0:00 Intro 1:39 Inditex’s production cycle 2:35 A garment worker’s evening 3:42 Wage and labor violations 5:08 Bangladesh’s rise as a garment giant 6:11 Inditex’s air-shipping footprint 10:28 The pressure on garment workers 12:56 Lefties: Inditex’s hidden brand 13:40 A former employee’s testimony 16:27 Better fashion for people and planet? -- Subscribe: https://www.bit.ly/3L0j2Ro Watch more videos: https://www.bit.ly/3FPmblU Visit our site: https://www.context.news/ — We make short documentaries, explainers and original series for people who care about the world’s biggest challenges. Context is anchored around three of the most significant and interdependent issues of our time: climate change, the impact of technology on society and inclusive economies. We contextualize how critical issues and events affect ordinary people, society and the environment. Context is a media platform brought to you by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate foundation of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information services company. Through journalism, media development, free legal assistance, and convening initiatives, we combine our unique services to drive systemic change.

Dealmakers in the European consumer space are cautiously anticipating a more active 2H23, with some indications of a pickup in M&A. It, could, however, be early next year before a significant number of consumer companies hit the market, they said. There may not be enough positive sentiment around the consumer sector for processes to be launched with confidence, said one sector banker. A peak in interest rates would be necessary before more processes start coming to market, this banker said.

It was a scandal that would — eventually — create international headlines: A wiretapping campaign in which the phones of journalists and a leading opposition politician were seemingly being monitored. But for months, Greece’s “Watergate” received almost no mention in the country’s mainstream newspapers and TV channels.

In the urban landscape of Athens, ‘polykatoia’ -the typical, space-efficient Athenian block of flats- has predominated the urban landscape of the city since the 50s and it’s mostly characterized by an intense horizontal component of balconies. In an attempt to defy common building codes, Inside Out’s architect Nikos Ktenàs focused on the reinvention of ‘polykatoia’ by proposing the transformation of the unoccupied, residual space of the lot into an open-air central entry-hall and a transitional