Topic: Environment

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If America can find $716bn for the military, it can fund the Green New Deal

Article / 8th March 2019

At long last the political debate in the world’s richest country is vibrant with proposals that would help the most vulnerable in our society. And what do we hear in response? A growing chorus of naysayers.

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Can an unequal earth beat climate change?

Blog / 8th March 2019

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require major disruptive shifts, which people will tolerate only if they believe that everyone is sharing in the sacrifice, the wealthy and powerful included. A review of recent climate change reports, by Sam Pizzigati at Inequality.org.

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The meaning of the Green New Deal

Article / 4th March 2019

The Green New Deal strongly affirms the need for more equity and social justice, and the fact that these principles are being presented and endorsed by leading politicians suggests a realignment of political forces in the United States, writes Philippe Gauthier 

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Parliament must declare a climate emergency – not ignore it

Article / 4th March 2019

To avoid climate catastrophe, we must go beyond what is considered politically possible. A Green New Deal would mobilise resources on a scale unprecedented in peacetime, to tackle the climate emergency and address spiralling inequality, writes Caroline Lucas.

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Managing without growth. Slower by design, not disaster

Article / 21st February 2019

It took homo sapiens some 200,000 years to reach the first billion by about 1800. In just the 10 years separating the first and second edition of Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster, the human population increased by the same amount putting increased pressure on an already crowded planet. 

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New UN report reveals that hunger in Africa continues to rise

News / 21st February 2019

Hunger in Africa continues to rise after many years of decline, threatening the continent's hunger eradication efforts to meet the Malabo Goals 2025 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2).

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This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown

Report / 13th February 2019

Environmental breakdown is a fundamental issue of justice, and calls for overall socioeconomic transformations that bring human activity to within environmentally sustainable limits while tackling inequalities and providing a high quality life to all, according to a new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research.

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Irreverent musings from COP24

Blog / 8th February 2019

At the latest climate talks in Poland, there was no soothing balm when it came to addressing issues of international equity and climate change, writes Kevin Anderson for The Ecologist.

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After Paris: countries are not paying their fair share

Report / 14th December 2018

A review of climate targets and commitments by each country has been released during the UN climate conference in Poland.

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Our food systems are collapsing and the alternative of agroecology has become a survival imperative

Report / 5th December 2018

Dr. Vandana Shiva presents in the report The Future of Our Daily Bread: Regeneration or Collapse new evidence on the imminent collapse of our food systems if we continue on the path of industrial agriculture. 

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