Developing countries face collapsing international trade, falling remittances, sharp reversals of capital flows, and currency depreciation. Only bold policies—debt relief, international financing, planning, and more—will avert further catastrophe, says Jayati Ghosh
05.05.2020
Ursula Mathar, the BMW Group's Vice President for Sustainability explores how the COVID-19 pandemic's “crisis mode” is providing impetus for change.
04.05.2020
Longread with Dan Hill from the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova about identifying, following through, and evaluating missions.
01.05.2020
There is a single species that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic - us. As with the climate and biodiversity crises, recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity – particularly our global financial and economic systems, based on a limited paradigm that prizes economic growth at any cost. We have a small window of opportunity, in overcoming the challenges of the current crisis, to avoid sowing the seeds of future ones.
30.04.2020
Anthony Bogues argues that we need to move beyond focusing on development with all its historical baggage and focus instead on the ‘human’, which would mean rethinking human life itself and the sustainability of human life on this planet.
29.04.2020
Dr. Sabin Bieri, Prof. Dr. Thomas Breu, Dr. Andreas Heinimann and Prof. Dr. Peter Messerli discuss the knowledge gaps in addressing today's new challenges, and how the 2030 Agenda can provide a compass in finding solutions.
26.04.2020
We spoke to Peter Thomson, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, about the upcoming Ocean Decade and the importance of solid science and political will to make sound decisions for the future health of the ocean and thereby our own.
23.04.2020
There are three ways of looking at COVID-19 and three time frames for responding to the crisis it has created, argues Quinn Slobodian in a think-piece generated after a Transnational Institute webinar.
22.04.2020
Join the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and planet - this year, completely online.
22.04.2020
Olivier Bouin, Marie-Laure Djelic, Marc Fleurbaey, Ravi Kanbur and Elisa Reis explore the issues around "The Pandemic in the Age of Anxiety".
21.04.2020
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