Open letter: Security for whom?
Article / 23rd June 2026Europe faces a choice: fund militarisation or invest in people. Civil society organisations call on leaders to prioritise health, housing, education, climate action and peacebuilding over a surge in defence spending.
How a super El Niño could trigger global famine
Article / 12th June 2026Emergency finance is essential to combat hunger—but it is only a stop‑gap. Preventing future food crises requires structural change to how food is produced based on agroecological farming.
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way
Article / 11th June 2026Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, write Olivier De Schutter, Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh, Thomas Piketty, Kate Raworth and Jason Hickel.
Is a new Copernican Revolution already underway?
Article / 5th June 2026A second Copernican revolution is gathering force that will take humanity out of the center of the living world—not to diminish us, but to restore us to our proper place within it, writes Jeremy Lent.
Africa’s water is its future. Who will govern it?
Article / 3rd June 2026We need a new governance model for Africa that no longer treats water as charity but rather as a driver of economic transformation, a foundation of peace, and the most important asset the continent holds in trust for its children.