Topic: Environment
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.
Das Gemeingut der Menschheit
Report / 17th July 2018Wir 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.
The magnitude of the planetary crisis requires action of a similar size
Blog / 14th July 2018Karin 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
A record 68.5 million people in the world were forcibly displaced by the end of 2017, U.N. says
News / 26th June 2018Every two seconds, someone in the world was forcibly displaced in 2017, according to a new report by the U.N. Refugee Agency.
Toward a sustainable wellbeing economy
Blog / 13th June 2018The 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.