by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop A new report entitled: “What Lies Beneath: The understatement of existential climate risk” authored by David Spratt and myself, has just been released via the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration in Melbourne, Australia. Available…
By Mort Rosenblum * – Mort Report Empty Seas: One ALASSIO, Italy – If you hate those salted fishy slivers on pizza, Giuseppe Cormaci has encouraging news. Mediterranean anchovies tanked this year.
By Anders Wijkman* Looking at ecological and economic realities, time has come for demanding a new development model, one that fits our time and circumstances. The current model – the economy in particular – was designed and developed in an empty world, with a population between…
Burrowes* There is almost unanimous agreement among climate scientists and organizations – that is, 97% of over 10,000 climate scientists and the various scientific organizations engaged in climate science research – that human beings have caused a dramatic increase in the…
By Saleemul Huq * – The Daily Star, Bangladesh May 30 2018 – The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was set up under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to channel much of the USD 100 billion a year starting from 2020 onwards that the developed countries…
Burrowes* In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out that existing conflict theory pays little attention to the extinction-causing conflict being ongoingly generated by human over-consumption in the finite planetary biosphere (and…
By Daniel Boffey * A case is being pursued against the European parliament and the council of the EU for allowing overly high greenhouse gas emissions to continue. Lawyers acting for a group including a French lavender farmer and members of the indigenous Sami community in…
Kumi Naidoo* – Project Syndicate Not since 1951 has the international community produced a treaty to protect the legal status of the world’s refugees. Now, two agreements are currently under discussion at the United Nations, and each offers a rare opportunity to protect global…
By Dylan Selterman* – National Geographic Magazine. If everyone’s success depended on it, would you share—or be selfish?
Gareth Dorrian and Ian Whittaker – The Conversation UK Disclosure statement The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their…
