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At the flip of a billion coins

Can finance provide what humanity needs? As we approach 1.5ºC average warming, nature collapses, and conflicts escalate, this must be a reasonable question. Or is it naïve as finance is

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The die in diet

While we depend on food, water, air, and shelter to survive, only our requirement for food demands that we rely on a complex international trading system for our day-to-day needs. 

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The gravity of the situation

I grew up in the 70s in a world where there was a sense of expanding progress.  The great wars were behind us and even when Thatcher/Reagan pushed dog-eat-dog neoliberalism

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Enlightenment goes viral

I am not a believer in conspiracy theories, but for one moment let’s imagine there exists a shadowy secret society bent on world betterment… The Society had been increasingly worried.

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Interviews

Oil’s not well

Adam Hanieh is a Professor of Political Economy. His latest book, Crude Capitalism, aims to help us understand the nature of the fossil fuel economy, which he considers essential for

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Small ideas

Smaje is a social scientist turned grower in Somerset. When he is not working the fields, he is thinking and writing about what a future food system might look like.

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The finish line

Jem Bendell is a self-described “doomster”. He started out as an activist promoting corporate sustainability in the 90s, shifting to academia as a professor of sustainable development recognised by the

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The differential equation

David Stainforth is professor of physics with a deep passion for modelling the dimensions of the climate crisis in a form that is useful for decision makers and the wider

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Articles

Shock and ore

Public trust through shared prosperity is the key to a fast transition to a green economy. But Joan Carling and Phil Bloomer ask: are we, instead, entering an age of

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Climate change: a moving story

The displacement of millions of people is the elephant in the climate change negotiating chamber, says Niko Humalisto. He navigates the path the world must take. Planetary warming is destabilising

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Power planting

Rohini Kamal outlines the promises and problems for Bangladesh in building solar arrays on its farmland. More than 100 countries met in Dubai during November last year where they pledged

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Why didn’t the balloon go up?

When the US military shot down an unmanned Chinese aircraft many thought the worst. Joshua Brown looks at why things might have even grown better. When a Chinese surveillance balloon

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Healthy, wealthy and wise

Sarah McKinley beats the drum for Community Wealth Building. As I write, 1,200 farmers and their tractors have occupied the centre of Brussels where I live. Their synchronised horn blasts

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Down to business

Martin Parker asks whether business schools might be able to help address carbon capitalism, rather than simply teaching it. On Wednesday 3 June 1970, the Board of Social Studies at

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The Bumpy Ride

Roland Kupers argues that fixing the climate crisis will necessarily be turbulent. Our current approach to the climate problem falls well short of what is objectively required, but that does

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As real as it gets

Climate change: Bangladesh is where it is at. Rohini Kamal shows the way.  Debates on climate change are often dominated by heated commentary from the West on its impending peril

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Pensions get the green-lite

Why better pensions help the climate – Bruno Bonizzi explains. In October 2021, two UK-based academics, Dr Neil Davies and Dr Ewan McGaughey, issued proceedings against the directors of the

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The ifs and buts of Hydrogen

Hydrogen may be useful, but how green can it really be? asks Roland Kupers. It has been used for centuries: from lifting the balloon that Jacques Charles floated over Paris

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Beyond denial

Sandra White maps a route through denial and towards action on climate change. Despite growing evidence of climate change, only a few years ago I regularly heard people deny that

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All together. How?

If the way out of climate crisis requires a world that works together, can economics and markets provide the direction? Şerban Scrieciu reflects. Two globally significant events this year have

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Event Recordings

Commons concern – interview transcript

The Mint:                     Good afternoon, Erik. And thanks very much for joining The Mint, to talk about your recent book on Elinor Ostrom. Erik Nordman:              Thanks a lot, Henry. It’s my

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Cop out? – Interview transcript

The Mint:                     Hello, Michael. Good day. Thank you very much for joining us to talk to The Mint. Michael Jacobs:             My pleasure. COP26 and Ratcheting up Climate Change Ambition The

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