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Fighting famine: 'Unprecedented crisis' putting 20 million people at risk, warns UN agency
News / 15th August 2017Twenty million people risk dying of hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and the north-east of Nigeria, including 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition, the United Nations food relief agency said, spotlighting today its worldwide campaign to fight famine.
The economic crash, ten years on
Article / 14th August 2017There is still hope of restoring finance to the role of servant to, and not master of, economies and regions. But for that to happen the public must realise that citizens can exercise economic power over global financial markets. The people must lead, so that leaders can follow, writes Ann Pettifor for Red Pepper magazine.
Circular economy isn’t a magical fix for our environmental woes
Blog / 14th August 2017To truly flourish, the circular economy needs to be part of a bigger effort to tackle economic growth, wasteful consumerism and undemocratic power structures in the global economy. It needs to be geared to the real needs of all people, rather than the excessive consumption of a few, writes Micha Narberhaus and Joséphine von Mitschke-Collande.
Reversing inequality: Unleashing the transformative potential of an equitable economy
Report / 14th August 2017A new report explains how the rules governing the US economy are tipped in favour of asset owners over wage earners, and offers solutions to transform our system. Authored by Chuck Collins and published by the Institute of Policy Studies and the Next System Project.
Earth Overshoot Day: Mankind has already consumed more natural resources than the planet can renew throughout 2017
News / 2nd August 2017Humans have already used up their allowance for water, soil, clean air and other resources on Earth for the whole of 2017.