Topic: Environment
The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth
News / 17th September 2018‘Today, solving social problems within European nations does not require more growth - it requires a fairer distribution of the income and wealth that we already have.’ 238 academics call on the European Union and its member states to plan for a post-growth future in which human and ecological wellbeing is prioritised over GDP.
Global hunger continues to rise, new UN report says
News / 11th September 2018New evidence continues to signal that the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 or one in every nine people, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 released today.
Rise for climate: powerful global mobilisation concludes demanding real climate leadership
News / 10th September 2018This weekend over 250,000 people took part in more than 900 actions in 95 countries. The Rise for Climate mobilizations demanded political action to keep fossil fuels in the ground and deliver a swift and just transition to 100% renewable energy for all.
The climate crisis is here – and time to act is running out
Blog / 5th September 2018To unlock the needed ambition at the latest climate negotiations in Bangkok, each country must undertake its fair share of action – based on both their share of the responsibility for the crisis and their capacity to act – if the planet is to meet its collective climate goals, writes Adriano Campolina.
200 stars urge 'serious' action on climate change in letter to Le Monde
News / 4th September 2018Two hundred of the world’s most prominent artists and scientists signed an open letter in French daily Le Monde on Monday calling for urgent political action to address the “global catastrophe” facing mankind and other species.
A sufficiency vision for an ecologically constrained world
Article / 29th August 2018Owing to the limits of eco-efficiency and the need to liberate environmental space for the global poor, new policy instruments should be designed to bring about ecological fair sharing between countries and a new economy based on the concept of sufficiency.
Dying of consumption while guzzling snake oil: the environment crisis requires overhauling our corporate industrial civilization
Article / 17th August 2018We cannot count on our government officials to offer real solutions—only we can make the necessary large-scale changes in production and consumption on both the individual and systemic levels. What these changes amount to most of all is living simply, personally and collectively. This is the true #resistance, writes Kristine Mattis in Common Dreams.
Earth's carbon concentrations have soared to levels not seen in 800,000 years
News / 9th August 2018One NOAA oceanographer warns that even if humanity "stopped the greenhouse gases at their current concentrations today, the atmosphere would still continue to warm for next couple decades to maybe a century."
Earth’s resources consumed in ever greater destructive volumes
Blog / 24th July 2018Humanity is devouring our planet’s resources in increasingly destructive volumes, according to a new study that reveals we have consumed a year’s worth of carbon, food, water, fibre, land and timber in a record 212 days.
Buzzwords and tortuous impact studies won’t fix a broken aid system
Article / 20th July 2018Fifteen leading economists, including three Nobel winners, argue that 'aid effectiveness' projects might yield satisfying micro-results, but they generally do little to change the systems that produce the problems in the first place. What we need instead is to tackle the real root causes of poverty, inequality and climate change.