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Dixson-Declève at the World Leaders Summit
COP26: Forgoing the planetary emergency and adopting incrementalism
19 November 2021 - There’s no denying that the UN Climate Talks in Glasgow had some successes. The commitments on closing the rulebook on carbon markets, deforestation, coal divestment, internal combustion engine phase out, and methane reduction are important if they...
22 November 2021 - The defining challenge of our time is envisioning a world of material sufficiency and spiritual abundance for 7.8+ billion people on a thriving, finite living Earth. That future must build from new insights into the nature of life that draw from ...
19 November 2021 - There’s no denying that the UN Climate Talks in Glasgow had some successes. The commitments on closing the rulebook on carbon markets, deforestation, coal divestment, internal combustion engine phase out, and methane reduction are important if they prove to be ...
31 October 2021 - To successfully emerge from Covid into a fairer, greener future we need to recognise nature as an essential piece of the puzzle.
Nearly two years after the first reported case of Covid-19, the world is still facing the repercussions. At the same time, the ...
18 October 2021 - “It is unequivocal”, these are the first three words of the sixth IPCC report. The policy experts and scientist have never been clearer in describing the existential threat facing humanity. In fact, the World Meteorological Organisation recently reported that the ...
12 October 2021 - Our future needs a global economic architecture that focuses on the conditions for life on our planet. Tending to social and ecological vitality and considering individual and collective well-being together is possible. Life Economies have plural ...
27 August 2021 - Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on the physical science of climate change, piling onto an already immense body of scientific literature that the climate crisis is dire.
The new report finds ...
18 August 2021 - One of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal global response to the escalating climate crisis has been the preparedness of financial market regulators to force their regulated institutions to face up to the implications of climate risk.
In so doing, they ...
26 July 2021 - In the 1972 bestselling book Limits to Growth (LtG), the authors (Meadows, Meadows, Randers & Behrens) concluded that if humanity kept pursuing economic growth without regard for environmental costs, global society would experience sharp declines in available ...
23 March 2021 - BRUSSELS (Reuters Breakingviews) - When Ursula von der Leyen announced the European Green Deal in 2019, she hailed it as “Europe’s ‘man on the moon’ moment”. A key component of this revolutionary programme would be the European Union Taxonomy, using the latest ...
25 February 2021 - Fans of transformative corporate action and business models to enhance health, planetary and human wellbeing have celebrated the work of Emmanuel Faber, the visionary CEO of French food company, Danone.[1] When Faber took the helm in 2014, he committed his company ...
02 December 2020 - The Covid-19 pandemic has left humanity reeling, as a virulent viral contagion has also become an economic contagion, destabilizing large swathes of national economies across the world. Meanwhile spiraling government debt, and rising wealth, income inequality and ...
26 November 2020 - We humans are a remarkable species with an extraordinary drive to understand ourselves and our place in a complex and evolving universe. In search of such understanding, we develop cultural narratives that express our shared understanding of who we are and why. ...
