Topic: Environment

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Earth’s resources consumed in ever greater destructive volumes

Blog / 24th July 2018

Humanity 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.

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Buzzwords and tortuous impact studies won’t fix a broken aid system

Article / 20th July 2018

Fifteen 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.

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Das Gemeingut der Menschheit

Report / 17th July 2018

Wir sind so lange nicht in der Lage uns ein ernsthaftes neues ökonomisches Paradigma für die Verwaltung der gemeinsamen Ressourcen der Erde vorzustellen, bis wir nicht zuerst die Notwendigkeit einer psychosozialen Transformation in unserem Bewusstsein erfassen. 

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The magnitude of the planetary crisis requires action of a similar size

Blog / 14th July 2018

Karin Nansen, chair of Friends of the Earth International, argues that a complete change to the economic system is necessary if we are ever to confront and transcend the environmental, climatic and social crises upon us

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A record 68.5 million people in the world were forcibly displaced by the end of 2017, U.N. says

News / 26th June 2018

Every two seconds, someone in the world was forcibly displaced in 2017, according to a new report by the U.N. Refugee Agency.

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Toward a sustainable wellbeing economy

Blog / 13th June 2018

The new Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WE-All) is designed to help facilitate a transformation to an economy that meets all fundamental needs within planetary biophysical boundaries. By Robert Costanza et al.

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Why economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability

Blog / 7th June 2018

Federico Demaria addresses the crucial issues of economic growth and environmental degradation, and asks: is the well-being of the individual, societies and nations possible beyond economic growth?

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Sufficiency: Moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency

Report / 7th June 2018

How to live on a shared and finite planet? A new booklet by Friends of the Earth Europe explores this question in relation to the vision of 'sufficiency'. This implies a new direction for society, in which a reduction in resource use among affluent countries opens up the opportunity for the global poor to obtain their fair share of the global commons.

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The coming wave of climate displacement

Blog / 31st May 2018

Governments around the world are engaged in a series of talks that could alter how the movement of people across borders is managed. One dialogue is focused on the protection of refugees; the other on migration.

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No money, more problems as U.N. climate talks close in Bonn

Blog / 15th May 2018

United Nations climate change talks edged slightly closer to completing the Paris Agreement Work Programme, including guidelines on how to put the Agreement into practice, despite rich countries persistently blocking progress on key issues like finance.

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