Topic: Environment
Uneven ground: Inequality and planetary health
Article / 22nd August 2025How do we promote human wellbeing while also safeguarding our planet? To achieve both, we have no option but to drastically reduce inequality, argues Kate Pickett.
Inequality worsens planetary heating
Article / 12th August 2025The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. It is also worsening disparities, especially between the rich and others, both nationally and internationally.
Annual Report for 2025: Share the World’s Resources
Report / 16th July 2025The case for sharing economic resources between the richest and poorest countries grew tragically stark in 2024. Read more about STWR's activities over the past year and our future plans.
Hunger skyrockets by nearly 80 percent in Eastern and Southern Africa over past five years amidst worsening water crisis
Report / 20th March 2025The climate crisis has dramatically worsened water scarcity in Eastern and Southern Africa over the past few decades, leaving nearly 116 million people without safe drinking water.
‘Pollutocrat Day’: The richest 1% have already burnt through their annual carbon budget, Oxfam says
Report / 10th January 2025The richest 1 per cent of people have already blown through their fair share of the global carbon budget for the year just 10 days into January.
In New Year’s Message, Guterres urges countries to drastically slash emissions and ‘exit this road to ruin’
News / 1st January 2025UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for making 2025 “a new beginning” in his message for the New Year.
A most heinous—yet unprosecuted—crime: inequality
Blog / 19th December 2024Planet Earth is drying up, relentlessly. But while such an ‘existential crisis’ affects nearly every region, guess where - and who - are the most hit?
COP29 summit for ‘global sharing’ fails again
Blog / 2nd December 2024The latest UN climate change summit was largely derided as a sham after failing its biggest test to date—committing to share resources among rich and poor nations for tackling the crisis.
Who should pay for climate loss and damage?
Blog / 22nd November 2024Who should pay for climate loss and damage? The big oil and gas industry who are most responsible for the crisis—it’s fundamentally an issue of climate justice, says Abdoulaye Diallo for IPS news.