Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism
In the world of glaciology, the year 2007 would go down in history. It was the year a seemingly small error in a major international report heralded huge changes in …
Two-thirds of glacier ice in the Himalayas will be lost by 2100 if climate targets aren’t met Read More
Out of the 20 largest economies in the world, only two—India and Indonesia—have diets that stay within the planetary boundaries for climate, the limits for what the Earth can support. …
The ‘food prints’ of the world’s major economies illustrate our unsustainable food system Read More
The disintegration of growth is irreversible. Roxana Bobulescu explains. I was born in Romania in 1972 when the country was a socialist republic. It was the year of the Meadows …
The point of no return Read More
Paul Frijters shares a dream. The world is getting hotter and wetter due to humanity increasing its carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions over the past 200 years. Even if …
The human touch Read More
Post-war reconstruction involved taxing the richest – it could help with building a low-carbon economy according to Dario Kenner. Amid the worst public health crisis in a generation, an economic disaster has …
The only way out Read More
Roland Kupers tells how complexity characterises climate policy questions. And how it also provides answers. The world’s governments in 2015 made a radical shift in the principles that governed their …
An inconveniently complex truth Read More
Going carbon neutral by planting a trillion trees will make our climate problem worse says Kathleen McAfee. Will planting trees save the planet from global warming? Billionaires attending the 2020 …
The trillion tree delusion Read More
I benefit from multiple privileges. White? Tick. Male? Tick. Posh? Tick and so on. In fact the world is largely designed by people like me for people like me. My …
In black and white Read More
Changing minds changes very little. Overhauling the way we live is more like it. David Fell suggests that, for most of us, like-minded people will lead the way to Net …
If nothing changes it all stays the same Read More
Last summer, Theresa May signed into law the U.K.’s ground-breaking target of hitting net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 against a backdrop of increasingly vocal Extinction Rebellion protests, school climate strikes, …
A year after pledging to go ‘net-zero’, what has the UK achieved? Read More