Topic: Environment
Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
News / 6th November 2019The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists.
To salvage multilateralism we need a Global Green New Deal
Blog / 25th October 2019It's time to reclaim the policy space lost to footloose capital by creating a new public realm at the global level, writes Richard Kozul-Wright for openDemocracy's Oureconomy.
What INGOs can learn from Greta Thunberg and the global climate strikes
Article / 15th October 2019Combining analysis, outrage and active citizenship can build and sustain large-scale public engagement, writes Stephen McCloskey for openDemocracy Transformation.
Higher temperatures driving 'alarming' levels of hunger – report
News / 15th October 2019The climate crisis is driving alarming levels of hunger in the world, undermining food security in the world’s most vulnerable regions, according to this year’s global hunger index.
The movement to take climate action has begun – but we have a long way to go
Blog / 11th October 2019Our planet needs action on a truly planetary scale. That cannot be achieved overnight, and it cannot happen without the full engagement of those contributing most to the crisis, writes the UN secretary general.
We need biodiversity-based agriculture to solve the climate crisis
Article / 4th October 2019Regenerating the planet through biodiversity-based ecological processes has become a survival imperative for the human species and all beings. It is not just a climate solution, but also a path to eradicating world hunger, explains Dr. Vandana Shiva.
Only a global Green New Deal can save the planet
Article / 20th September 2019The Sanders plan for a Green New Deal recognizes that unprecedented international cooperation will be needed—with the US doing its fair share—if we’re to have any hope of solving the climate crisis. By Tom Athanasiou for The Nation.
The G7 was a joke. Three degrees warming isn’t
Report / 10th September 2019We need a positive vision of internationalism that acts as a countervailing power against ethno-nationalist demagoguery, shunting us on an alternative path - before it’s too late, writes Laurie Laybourn-Langton.
Amazon fires are a shameful indictment of our lust for excess
Blog / 10th September 2019Christian Aid and other faith-based organisations are calling for global leaders to tackle the poverty and inequality which has fuelled the environmental crisis. By Dr Rowan Williams.
A quarter of humanity faces looming water crises
News / 9th August 2019Countries that are home to one-fourth of Earth’s population face an increasingly urgent risk: The prospect of running out of water.