Topic: Environment
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.
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.
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.
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.
Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months
Blog / 9th August 2019Current plans to cut global carbon emissions are nowhere near strong enough to keep temperatures below the so-called safe limit - and 2020 is a deadline for action, explains Matt McGrath.
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.
World warned: Change now or endanger food and climate
News / 9th August 2019Humanity faces increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless it curbs emissions and stops unsustainable farming and deforestation, a landmark climate assessment warned on Thursday.
World marks earliest ‘Earth Overshoot Day’
Blog / 1st August 2019On Monday 29 July, humanity will consume more resources through the end of 2019 than the planet can sustainably regenerate for the year, according to the Global Footprint Network, which has been calculating Earth Overshoot Day since 1986.