Topic: Environment

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As global population grows, ecological threats and armed conflict could displace over 1 billion people by 2050

Report / 11th September 2020

An analysis released Wednesday by an international think tank warns that as the world's population continues to climb toward and possibly surpass 10 billion by 2050, ecological disasters and armed conflict could forcibly displace roughly 10% of humanity—or about 1.2 billion people.

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Pandemic delays Earth Overshoot Day by three weeks

News / 21st August 2020

The day humanity exceeds Earth's biocapacity this year, Earth Overshoot Day, falls on August 22, three weeks later than in 2019. The shift is due to the pandemic, but can the contraction happen by design, not disaster?

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COVID-19 and the SDGs

Report / 17th August 2020

A new briefing summarises the actual or likely impacts of the global coronavirus crisis on each of the 17 Sustainable Development goals. By Jens Martens, Bodo Ellmers and Vera Pokorny for Global Policy Watch.

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Sostieni la nostra campagna di cartelloni pubblicitari

Article / 21st July 2020

STWR ha avviato una campagna di cartelloni pubblicitari che si svolgerà nei prossimi mesi. I poster saranno situati in varie zone del  centro di Londra, a partire dalla pubblicità nelle stazioni della metropolitana di Londra.

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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.

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A new normal

Article / 30th April 2020

"The pandemic has changed the game. We have the resources to build an economic model that doesn’t trash the planet and provides for all." STWR join the statement from the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice.

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Could COVID-19 give rise to a greener global future?

Blog / 24th April 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is a wake-up call to stop exceeding the planet’s limits, write Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Kate Raworth.

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Call to the G20 to invest in healthcare instead of militarisation

Article / 2nd April 2020

Sign a petition from the International Peace Bureau (IPB) calling for a dramatic reduction of military spending in favour of healthcare and meeting social needs.

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World ‘way off track’ on climate targets, UN experts warn after five hottest years on record

News / 11th March 2020

The world is "way off track" from meeting targets to limit global warming as the signs of a climate emergency grow more damaging, the United Nations has warned.

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Green New Deal can and must be global

Article / 28th February 2020

A Green New Deal has the potential to address both the climate crisis and global inequality, with potentially major implications for U.S. foreign policy. But this will mean confronting the structural inequalities, both national and global, that have been violently imposed throughout history and that still shape the present, explains William Minter and Imani Countess.  

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