A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
Declaration on climate finance
Article / 7th December 2017In advance of French President Macron’s climate and finance summit, prominent economists call for an immediate end to investments in new fossil fuel production and infrastructure, and encourage a dramatic increase in investments in renewable energy.
Famine and epidemic disease in Africa
Article / 5th December 2017Without public recognition of the politics behind disease and famine, it is harder to hold leaders accountable, or indeed to take any measures – beyond the purely technical or charity-minded – to mitigate future disasters. And nowhere is the blindness to context in famine reporting more pervasive than in Africa, writes Alex de Waal.
"New gilded age" reaches new heights with world’s billionaires owning staggering $6 trillion
Blog / 30th November 2017In an analysis (pdf) published Thursday that throws into stark relief the “unjust and unsustainable” nature of what economists have termed the New Gilded Age, the Swiss financial firm UBS found that the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew by 17 percent in 2016, bringing their combined fortune to a record $6 trillion — more than double the gross domestic product of the United Kingdom. N
A cop out at COP23?
Blog / 30th November 2017Despite a few victories, the UN’s annual climate change conference ended without achieving its goals or injecting a sense of much needed urgency.
Famine may be unfolding 'right now' in Yemen, warns UN relief wing
News / 23rd November 2017The United Nations relief wing on Friday warned of famine-like conditions unfolding in Yemen, as a blockade on aid and other essential goods by a Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels there enters its 12th day.