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Articles and opinion

Towards footprint justice: A fair earth share is a human right

Article / 10th June 2020

How can we stop the overshoot of our planet’s capacity and reach fair sharing at the same time? The Dutch Footprint Group present their proposal based on equal rights for all, written by Jan Juffermans for Resilience.org.

Is now the moment for a standing UN ‘911’ service?

Article / 23rd May 2020

With a “UN 911” first responder for complex emergencies, the UN would finally have a rapid, reliable capacity to help save millions of lives and trillions of dollars, writes H. Peter Langille for Foreign Policy in Focus.

The case for degrowth in a time of pandemic

Article / 23rd May 2020

What is happening during this pandemic is not degrowth. Our real goal is to purposefully slow things down in order to live meaningfully through commoning, sharing and working less in more equal societies, write Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria.

People in the Global South don’t need debt relief, they need a new system

Article / 7th May 2020

 Far from being the 'great leveller', COVID-19 has exposed and deepened socio-economic inequalities, writes Meera Karunananthan for openDemocracy.