Toward a sustainable wellbeing economy
Blog / 13th June 2018The new Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WE-All) is designed to help facilitate a transformation to an economy that meets all fundamental needs within planetary biophysical boundaries. By Robert Costanza et al.
Why economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability
Blog / 7th June 2018Federico Demaria addresses the crucial issues of economic growth and environmental degradation, and asks: is the well-being of the individual, societies and nations possible beyond economic growth?
The coming wave of climate displacement
Blog / 31st May 2018Governments around the world are engaged in a series of talks that could alter how the movement of people across borders is managed. One dialogue is focused on the protection of refugees; the other on migration.
New figures show debt crises are growing across the globe
Blog / 17th May 2018Thirty-one countries across the world are now in debt crisis, with a further 82 at risk, according to new figures released by the Jubilee Debt Campaign on 16 May. The figures are being released on the 20th anniversary of the G8 meeting in Birmingham (UK) 1998, when 70,000 people formed a human chain around the summit and called for unpayable developing country debt to be cancelled.
No money, more problems as U.N. climate talks close in Bonn
Blog / 15th May 2018United Nations climate change talks edged slightly closer to completing the Paris Agreement Work Programme, including guidelines on how to put the Agreement into practice, despite rich countries persistently blocking progress on key issues like finance.