Topic: Environment
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.
US and EU owe more than half the cost of repairing future damage caused by climate disasters
Report / 9th December 2019New analysis sets out how much responsibility the wealthy countries behind the climate crisis must take for the devastating impact that rising global temperatures are already having on developing nations.
Step up climate action or face catastrophe, says UN report
News / 27th November 2019Global emissions need to be more than halved if we are to save the planet, world's top scientists agree in a new United Nations report.
The intersection of politics and spirituality in addressing the climate crisis
Report / 22nd November 2019The following interview with STWR’s founder, Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, examines both the contemporary political and profounder spiritual implications of sharing the world’s resources in relation to the escalating climate emergency.