28 September 2023 - The African Climate Week (ACW) (4 – 8 September 2023) and its preceding African Climate Youth Assembly (AYCA) marked a significant gathering in the realm of African climate discussions. They were among the biggest and most anticipated high level...
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New foresight report identifies urgent policy actions needed to put SDGs back on track
14 September 2023 - Ahead of the UN’s SDG Summit (18-19 September), ground-breaking analyses shows how by enacting five ‘extraordinary turnarounds’ SDGs implementation can be accelerated. Earth4All, an international team of economists and scientists, provide solutions...
Breaking the suicidal impasse
08 September 2023 - In the last few months events have occurred globally which indicate an astonishing, but not unexpected, acceleration in the pace of climate change. The world has now entered a new era of extremely dangerous climate impacts which are already proving...
System-shifting steps towards a new global economic system
13 August 2023 - We are in a race of tipping points. We are exceeding biophysical planetary boundaries and the climate is fast approaching irreversible tipping points that could give us a world human civilization has never experienced. Climate change is however only...
A new playbook for preserving nature
09 August 2023 - The global economy is addicted to the relentless – and unsustainable – extraction of natural resources. Yet despite our complete dependence on nature, its contribution – for example, the water used to make your clothes or the soil in which your food...
New fashion regulations should reflect the urgency and scale of fashion unsustainability
07 August 2023 - When other fashion businesses complain about Shein, it is usually about how its ultra-fast fashion model is saturating the clothing market, and because it draws attention to practices that are otherwise hidden to those outside the industry. That’s...
The global climate has entered an unknown territory
31 July 2023 - On July 16th, the heat index in Iran surpassed 66°C: 10°C higher than the tolerable limit for human life. The waters off the coast of Florida in the United States exceeded 36°C: 2°C above normal, and enough to completely wipe out the life of corals that...
Why the Paris financing summit failed
14 July 2023 - The June 22-23 Summit for a New Global Financing Pact promised to catalyse a revolution in climate finance and empower the Global South. But it failed to meet its lofty goals, concluding without a single firm commitment or concrete proposal to help...
We must regenerate the future for a second chance on Earth
11 July 2023 - The present is full of fear. Wars, pandemics, climate warming, ecological disasters, economic downturn, social and political turmoil: We are not short of reasons to be fearful. In privileged countries, where for decades the future always looked better...
The ‘Awe’ industry
05 July 2023 - I recently attended a conference in France, near Mont Blanc, where I was invited to comment on a discussion about the beauty of experiencing what mountains have to offer – how they affect people who have the opportunity to ‘enjoy’ them. Attendees at the...