Topic: Environment
Could COVID-19 give rise to a greener global future?
Blog / 24th April 2020The coronavirus pandemic is a wake-up call to stop exceeding the planet’s limits, write Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Kate Raworth.
Call to the G20 to invest in healthcare instead of militarisation
Article / 2nd April 2020Sign a petition from the International Peace Bureau (IPB) calling for a dramatic reduction of military spending in favour of healthcare and meeting social needs.
World ‘way off track’ on climate targets, UN experts warn after five hottest years on record
News / 11th March 2020The 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.
Green New Deal can and must be global
Article / 28th February 2020A 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.
The world is failing to ensure children have a 'liveable planet', report finds
News / 19th February 2020Children in the biggest carbon-emitting nations are healthiest, while those with tiny environmental footprints suffer twofold from poor health and living at the sharp end of the climate crisis, reports Saeed Kamali Dehghan.
L’incrocio tra politica e spiritualità nell’affrontare la crisi climatica: Un’intervista con Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi
Report / 10th February 2020La seguente intervista con il fondatore di STWR, Mohammed S. Mesbahi, esamina sia le implicazioni politiche contemporanee sia quelle spirituali più profonde della condivisione delle risorse mondiali in relazione alla crescente emergenza climatica.
UN sounds alarm over unprecedented levels of hunger in southern Africa
News / 16th January 2020Southern Africa is in the throes of a climate emergency, with hunger levels in the region on a previously unseen scale, the UN has warned.
New STWR book: The spiritual dimensions of a climate emergency
News / 10th January 2020STWR have published a book version of the popular dialogue with Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, titled ‘The intersection of politics and spirituality in addressing the climate crisis’.
Developed world sabotages UN climate summit, now declared a failure
Blog / 16th December 2019At COP25, the world has moved even further from core principles of equity in tackling the climate crisis. By Kabir Agarwal for The Wire.
Climate financing being underhanded by rich nations, NGOs charge
Blog / 13th December 2019The successful battle against climate change – which has triggered a rash of natural disasters, including floods, droughts and rising sea levels— will be predicated largely on the availability of financing.