Topic: Environment
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
News / 6th August 2026About 50 million people are likely to be pushed into acute hunger before the end of next year by the rapidly developing El Niño weather system, according to forecasting.
Earth Overshoot Day 2026: Humanity is consuming resources 70% faster than Earth can regenerate them
News / 29th July 2026Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what Earth can regenerate during that year.
Cut the Pentagon, save the planet: The $1.5 trillion climate solution we can’t ignore
Article / 21st July 2026The scale of the Pentagon’s environmental destruction and its financial power is unfathomable. Cutting it's budget could do wonders for the planet.
Does Piketty’s new blueprint offer hope for sharing a finite world’s resources?
Article / 18th July 2026Let's hope the Global Justice Report spurs a peaceful mass citizens’ movement to overcome the inevitable opposition of the ultra-rich.
Climate con? Rich countries overstate climate financing to developing nations by up to 76 percent
News / 14th July 2026New analysis reveals a widening gap between reported support and the actual resources reaching countries on the frontline of climate change.
22nd Annual Green Economics Institute Conference 2026
Event / 6th July 2026Green Economics Institute is holding their 22nd annual Green Economics Institute Conference in Oxford.
Will Europe’s heatwave finally spur climate justice?
Blog / 3rd July 2026The European heatwave strips away the comfortable illusion that climate change is someone else’s humanitarian problem. The test is whether this new reality will translate into genuine support for countries facing existential threats.
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.
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.
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Report / 4th June 2026Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a sweeping vision for planetary survival.